Question

a piece of copper is placed in a silver nitrate solution given the activity of copper is greater than that of silver what will happen

Answer 1

Copper will replace silver to form copper nitrate because the activity of copper is greater than that of silver

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Answer 2

The silver nitrate is in solution and the metallic copper will dissolve to form copper nitrate; as it does so, the silver in solution will be precipitated out as metallic silver. That is, the silver in solution is exchanged for copper and the copper that is not in solution is substituted for silver.

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