Assertion : Copper reacts with hydrochloric acid and liberates hydrogen from the solution of dilute hydrochloric acid.

Reason : Hydrogen is present below copper in the electrochemical series.

Both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.

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Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.

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Assertion is true but reason is false.

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Assertion and reason both are false.

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Solution

The correct option is D Assertion and reason both are false.
Copper is present below hydrogen therefore hydrogen from HCl cannot be liberated by treating with copper. Hence, assertion and reason both are false.

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Read the assertion and reason carefully to mark the correct option out of the options given below :

(a) If both assertion and reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.

(b) If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.

(d) If the assertion and reason both are false.

(e) If assertion is false but reason is true.

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Reason: Acetic acid has no alpha hydrogens.

(a)

(b)

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