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Question
What would you observe in the following case:
Copper is heated with concentrated nitric acid in a hard glass test tube.
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Solution
Brown fumes of nitrogen dioxide are produced. Copper reacts with concentrated nitric acid to produce copper nitrate, water and nitrogen dioxide.
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