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How Do Metal React with Solution of Other Metal Salts

Copper + nitr...

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Copper + nitric acid → ? + ?

A

Water + Nitrogen oxide

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Water + oxygen

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C

No reaction

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Insufficient data

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Solution

The correct option is C
No reaction

Hydrogen gas is not evolved when a metal reacts with nitric acid. It is because HNO₃ is a strong oxidising agent. It oxidises the H₂ produced to water and itself gets reduced to any of the nitrogen oxides (N₂O, NO, NO₂).

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