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Nitric acid is a compound of nitrate and hydrogen (you can tell that the suffix is -ate by the suffix -ic. If it were nitrous acid, it would contain nitrite.) Its chemical formula is HN03

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Q: What happens when magnesium reacts with nitric acid?
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