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Question
How will you prepare the following from nitric acid?
Magnesium nitrate
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Solution
Magnesium nitrate can be obtained by the action of dil. HNO3 on Magnesium.
\[\ce{Mg + 2HNO3 -> \underset{(Magnesium nitrate)}{Mg(NO3)2} + H2}\]
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