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Suggest whether potassium metal can be used to react with an acid to prepare a soluble salt. Explain your answer.

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Yes, potassium metal can be used to react with an acid to prepare a soluble salt.

Acids react with metals to yield the corresponding metal salt and hydrogen gas.

One of the properties of metals is their ability to react with dilute acids to yield  a soluble salt and hydrogen gas. This is a common reaction for all metals that are above hydrogen in the activity series.

Potassium can react with a hypothetical acid HB as follows;

2K(s) + 2HB(aq) ------> 2KB(aq) + H2(g)

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