Question

Assertion: Hydrometallurgy involves dissolving the ore in a suitable reagent followed by precipitation by a more electropositive metal.

Reason: Copper is extracted by hydrometallurgy.

विकल्प

• Both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

• Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

• Assertion is true but reason is false.

• Assertion is false but reason is true.

• Assertion and reason both are wrong.

Answer 1

Both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

Explanation:

Copper is extracted by hydrometallurgical process. In this process, salts of metal are dissolved in suitable solvent like water and then reduced by more electropositive element.