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Question
What do you observe when dilute sulphuric acid is added to granulated zinc?
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Solution
When Zinc reacts with dilute sulphuric acid, hydrogen gas is evolved with an effervesence.
Zn + dil. H2SO4 → Zn SO4 + H2.
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