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Aluminium can displace Zinc metal from aqueous solution of Zinc sulphate because______

(zinc is more reactive than aluminium / aluminium is more reactive than zinc).

aluminium is more reactive than zinc

A metal can replace or displace another metal from its salt solution only when the added metal is more reactive than the metal already present in the form of salt solution. Here, Aluminium is able to displace Zinc metal from aqueous solution of Zinc sulphate which clearly implies that aluminium is more reactive than Zinc.


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