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Why do silver chloride stored in dark coloured bottle

Posted by Mansehaj Kaur 4 years, 2 months ago

CBSE > Class 10 > Science

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Dewang Doye 4 years, 2 months ago

Silver chloride is stored in dark coloured bottles so that not to expose to sunlight as when exposed to sunlight it decomposes to form silver and chlorine gas (hint: dark and white photography , photolysis ) I hope it will help you ??

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Poonam Mittewad 4 years, 2 months ago

Becoz it is an photo decomposition reactant and 2AgCl---->2Ag+Cl2

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Adithya Dev A 4 years, 2 months ago

Silver salts are photosensitive compounds. So, when kept exposed to sunlight, it decomposes to form Silver metal. So, they are usually stored in dark coloured bottles.

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Kowshik Kowshik 4 years, 2 months ago

Because it reacts with sun light

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Sneha Keerthi 4 years, 2 months ago

Silver chloride AgCl is sensitive to sunlight.when exposed to it,a salt decomposes into silver and chlorine. In order to check the decomposition, silver chloride is kept in dark coloured bottles so that sunlight may not fall on it.

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