when metals and acids are combined, why does it produce bubbles?

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when metals and acids are combined, why does it produce bubbles?

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The other two comments explained it very well, but they kept the explanation pretty complex, so I’ll give you a simplified version.

Everything in our reality is made up of small pieces called atoms, and those small pieces get together to create molecules. So a molecule is a chain of atoms.

The acid is a molecule, and when it hits the metal, it loses one of its atoms, the hydrogen atom. That Hydrogen atom and binds to a metal atom, and now they form a small molecule of two atoms.

So the metal dissipates because its small pieces bind the hydrogen, and these new small molecules make the bubbles.