What is the outcome of reaction, of copper in HCl?

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What is the outcome of reaction, of copper in HCl?

How would you describe the corrosion occurring?

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Answer 1 · 2017-10-22T02:14:56

There will be no reaction.

Explanation:

There will be no reaction. Copper is a very unreactive metal, and it does not react with hydrochloric acid. It is above copper in a metal reactivity series, so copper cannot replace the hydrogen in $HCl$ $"HCl"$ to form ${CuCl}_{2}$ $"CuCl"_2$ .

$Cu(s) + HCl(aq)$ $"Cu(s) + HCl(aq)"$ $\to$ $rarr$ $no reaction$ $"no reaction"$

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