Copper chloride cannot be produced by reacting copper with hydrochloric acid, why?

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Ptkvsk · Answer 1 · 2023-09-21T22:47:01+0000

The equation that you’re looking at is Cu (copper) + HCl (hydrochloric acid) —> CuCl (copper chloride). This doesn’t work because copper chloride doesn’t contain hydrogen. The equation would only work if the reactants were chlorine and copper only.

Copper chloride cannot be produced by reacting copper with hydrochloric acid, why?

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