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Give reason for the following:
(d) Colourless concentrated sulphuric acid in a test tube changes to blue on adding a small piece of copper to it.

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Colourless concentrated sulphuric acid in a test tube changes to blue on adding a small piece of copper to it because copper displaces hydrogen from sulphuric acid and forms blue coloured copper sulphate.

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