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Zinc reacts with dilute sulphuric acid liberating hydrogen but not with dilute nitric acid. Give reason

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Solution

Nitric acid is a strong oxidising agent. It oxidises the hydrogen gas formed by the reaction of zinc with nitric acid to water and itself gets reduced to an oxide.

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