When the copper wire is left in silver nitrate for some time it changes its colour to bluesh green? why ?
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Copper is more reactive than silver. Hence when copper wire is dipped in silver nitrate solution it displaces silver from Silver Nitrate (AgNO3 ) solution forming copper nitrate which is bluish green in colour. This is a displacement reaction.
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