What happens when a piece of silver metal is added to copper sulfate solution? Also, write the balanced chemical equation if the reaction occurs

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Reaction of Silver with Copper sulfate:
There will be no reaction when silver $(Ag)$ reacts with copper sulfate solution $({CuSO}_{4})$ as silver is a less reactive metal.
$Ag (s) + {CuSO}_{4} (aq) \to No reaction$
Activity series:
The activity series is a listing of metals categorized in the order of their decreasing activities.
In the activity series, Silver $(Ag)$ lies below Copper $(Cu)$ , thus it will not displace copper from its solution.
As a result, there will be no displacement reaction.

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