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Silver chloride

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
AgCl
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
143.32
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352302
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.21
Assay:
99%
form:
powder or chunks

vapor pressure

1 mmHg ( 912 °C)

Quality Level

product line

ReagentPlus®

Assay

99%

form

powder or chunks

reaction suitability

reagent type: catalyst
core: silver

mp

455 °C (lit.)

SMILES string

Cl[Ag]

InChI

1S/Ag.ClH/h;1H/q+1;/p-1

InChI key

HKZLPVFGJNLROG-UHFFFAOYSA-M

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General description

Silver chloride (AgCl) is widely employed as a catalyst, photographic material, and ionic semiconductor material. High photosensitivity of AgCl makes it an important photocatalyst.

Application

Silver chloride can be used as a catalyst:
  • In the preparation of 1,2,3-triazoles from alkynes and azides.

Silver chloride is also be used:
  • As a precursor salt to synthesize silver nanoparticles.

Legal Information

ReagentPlus is a registered trademark of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Pictograms

CorrosionEnvironment

Signal Word

Warning

Hazard Statements

Precautionary Statements

Hazard Classifications

Aquatic Acute 1 - Aquatic Chronic 1 - Met. Corr. 1

Storage Class Code

8B - Non-combustible corrosive hazardous materials

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable


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A type of silver chloride electrode suitable for use in dilute solutions.
Brown AS.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 56(3), 646-647 (1934)
Band structure of silver chloride and silver bromide.
Scop PM.
Physical Review, 139(3A), A934-A934 (1965)
Ionic conductivity of silver chloride single crystals.
Corish J and Jacobs PWM.
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 33(7), 1799-1818 (1972)
Tomohisa Hayashi et al.
Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry, 28(2), 127-133 (2012-02-11)
Electrochemical detection of sugar-related compounds was conducted using a boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrode as a detector for flow-injection analysis (FIA). Sugar-related compounds oxidize at high applied potentials, for which the BDD electrode is suitable for electrochemical measurements. Conditions for an
Alevtina Neyman et al.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 48(16), 2207-2209 (2012-01-19)
"Out-of-pocket" association of Ag(+) to the tetradentate defect site of mono-vacant Keggin and Wells-Dawson polyoxometalate (POM) cluster-anions is used to direct the formation of water-soluble AgCl nanocubes.

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