Chemistry
Hydrogen is evolved when dilute HCl reacts with magnesium, but nothing happens in the case of mercury and silver. Explain.
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As magnesium is more reactive than hydrogen and is placed above it in the metal reactivity series, hence hydrogen is displaced by magnesium but mercury and silver are less reactive than hydrogen and are placed below it in the series, hence they can't displace hydrogen.
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