Reduced ring

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In ring theory, a ring R is said to be reduced if it has no non-zero nilpotent elements.

This condition is weaker than having no zero divisors, hence every domain is a reduced ring, but not every reduced ring is a domain. For example, Z[x, y]/(xy) is a reduced ring that is not a domain.

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