Question

in the laboratory preparation of hydrogen from zinc and dilute acid dilute nitric acid is not preferred as the reactant acid why?

Answer 1

Nitric acid (HNO3) is a strong oxidising agent. It oxidises H2 produced into H2O (water) and itself gets reduced to any of the nitrogen oxides (NO2, NO and N2O). Thus, hydrogen gas is not evolved.
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