Give reason for the following.
Hydrogen is not evolved when a metal react with nitric acid.

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Solution

Nitric acid $H N O_{3}$ is a strong oxidising agent. The Hydrogen gas produced during the reaction with metal gets oxidized to $H_{2} O$ , hence no hydrogen gas is produced. Instead, it evolves nitric oxides such as $N O_{2}, N O$ etc.

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