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Silver chloride

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
AgCl
CAS Number:
7783-90-6
Molecular Weight:
143.32
EC Number:
232-033-3
MDL number:
MFCD00003399
UNSPSC Code:
12352302
PubChem Substance ID:
329752346
NACRES:
NA.21

vapor pressure

1 mmHg ( 912 °C)

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
GHS05,GHS09

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Warning

hcodes

H290,H410

Hazard Classifications

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

Storage Class

8B - Non-combustible corrosive hazardous materials

wgk_germany

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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Band structure of silver chloride and silver bromide.
Scop PM.
Physical Review, 139(3A), A934-A934 (1965)
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)
Ionic conductivity of silver chloride single crystals.
Corish J and Jacobs PWM.
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 33(7), 1799-1818 (1972)
Ghodratollah Absalan et al.
Amino acids, 43(5), 1955-1967 (2012-04-12)
In this paper, adsorption behaviors of typical neutral (alanine), acidic (glutamic acid) and basic (lysine) amino acids onto the surfaces of neutral as well as positively and negatively charged silver chloride nanoparticles were examined. Silver chloride nanoparticles with different charges
H Wayne Harris et al.
Biochemical Society transactions, 40(6), 1167-1177 (2012-11-28)
Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 cells utilize a behaviour response called electrokinesis to increase their speed in the vicinity of IEAs (insoluble electron acceptors), including manganese oxides, iron oxides and poised electrodes [Harris, El-Naggar, Bretschger, Ward, Romine, Obraztsova and Nealson (2010) Proc.
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