Chemistry, asked by bipanshu97, 1 year ago

why hydrogen gas is not evolved when metal react with HNO3​

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Answered by Krishna102503
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Nitric acid(HNO3) is a strong oxidising agent. The Hydrogen gas produced during its reaction with metal gets oxidised to H2O, hence no hydrogen gas is produced. Instead it evolves nitric oxides such as NO2,NO etc.

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