Question #60418
1 Answer
Nov 3, 2015
Explanation:
Based on the metal activity series, zinc is not active enough to replace the
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But laboratory results tells us otherwise because zinc (along with aluminum, copper, tin, lead, and beryllium) is considered as amphoteric, a molecule which reacts to bases and acids alike.
Also, the reaction is not an acid-base, as one might expect but more of an oxidation-reduction reaction with the following half-equations:
Oxidation:
Reduction:
