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you are a hired consultant for a mining company whose ore contains a mixture of silver...

you are a hired consultant for a mining company whose ore contains a mixture of silver salts, including Ag2CO3, Ag2S, and Ag3PO4. The plan to dissolve the silver salts into solution with acid, and then use electrochemistry to transform the silver cation [Ag^+] into silver solid. What acid should they use to dissolve the silver salts in order to minimize undesirable side-reactions?

Commercially available acids: HCl(aq), HBr(aq), HNO3(aq), H2SO4(aq) or "all these would work"

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