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Most of the metals do not displace hydrogen from _____ acid.

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Solution

Nitric acid is a strong oxidizing agent. So, it oxidizes the hydrogen to water and itself gets reduced to any nitrogen oxide.
Hence, when metal reacts with concentrated nitric acid, it forms water as a product.

So the correct answer is nitric.

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