What happens when Metals react with Acids?

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Metals react with acids to give a salt and hydrogen gas.

Metal + Dilute acid → Salt + Hydrogen

Write equations for the reactions of magnesium, aluminium, zinc and iron with dilute hydrochloric acid.
Hydrogen gas is not evolved when a metal reacts with nitric acid. It is because HNO₃ is a strong oxidising agent. It oxidises the H₂ produced to
water and itself gets reduced to any of the nitrogen oxides (N₂O, NO, NO₂). But magnesium (Mg) and manganese (Mn) react with very dilute HNO₃ to evolve H₂ gas.
The rate of formation of bubbles was the fastest in the case of magnesium. The reaction was also the most exothermic in this case. The reactivity decreases in the order Mg > Al > Zn > Fe. In the case of copper, no bubbles were seen and the temperature also remained unchanged. This shows that copper does not react with dilute HCl.