Why hydrogen gas is not released when nitric acid is reacted with zinc

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Solution

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.

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