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Why nitric acid is an oxidising agent ? Why not others acids like HCl , H2SO4 ect ?
Asked by sucharitasahoo1 | 27 Aug, 2017, 07:07: PM
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Nitric acid is a powerful oxidising agent and the oxidising properties are due to nascent oxygen which it gives on decomposition.
Sulphuric acid is also an oxidising agent and on thermal decomposition it yields nascent oxygen.
Hydrochloric acid is a reducing agent i.e. it reduces the other substances and itelf gets oxidised to chlorine.
Answered by Vaibhav Chavan | 28 Aug, 2017, 10:57: AM
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