When acid reacts with metals, it releases hydrogen gas but there is one acid which, when reacts with metals, does not release hydrogen except for two metals. Explain.
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Nitric acid is a string oxidizing agent. So as soon as hydrogen gas is formed in the reaction between a metal and nitric acid, the nitric acid oxidizes hydrogen gas to water and itself get reduced to any of nitrogen oxides. Thus nitric acid does not release hydrogen gas upon reaction with metals.