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To precipitate silver from sodium argento-cyanide, aluminium can be used . Comment.

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To precipitate silver from sodium argentocyanide, all the metals which are more electropositive than silver can be used. Aluminium is more electropositive than silver. Hence aluminium can be used to precipitate silver from sodium argentocyanide solution.
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    B
    Cu
    C
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    D
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    A is true, R is false
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