A metal which reacts with very dilute nitric acid to give hydrogen gas is

ZInc

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Iron

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Aluminium

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Magnesium

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Solution

The correct option is D
Magnesium
Nitric acid $(H N O_{3})$ is a strong oxidising agent. It oxidises the hydrogen produced on the reaction of a metal with nitric acid to water and itself gets reduced to any of the nitrogen oxides $(N_{2} O, N O, N O_{2})$ . However, magnesium and manganese are the only two metals that react with very dilute $H N O_{3}$ to evolve hydrogen gas.

Hence, the correct answer is option (d).

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(a) Explain why metals usually do not liberate hydrogen gas with dilute nitric acid.
(b) Name two metals which can, however, liberate hydrogen gas from very dilute nitric acid.

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