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Name a metal that replaces silver from silver nitrate solution. Give its equation and reason also.

Copper replaces silver from silver nitrate solution. Silver gets deposited over copper. This reaction is used in silver electroplating over copper articles. This happens because copper is more reactive than silver .

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