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Give reasons for the following:

Blue colour of copper sulphate solution is destroyed when iron filings are added to it.

Blue colour of copper sulphate solution is destroyed when iron filings are added to it that’s because iron displaces copper from copper sulphate solution as iron is more reactive than copper.

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