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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%
grade:
reagent
form:
powder or chunks

grade

reagent

Quality Level

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

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CorrosionEnvironment

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Warning

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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)
Ionic conductivity of silver chloride single crystals.
Corish J and Jacobs PWM.
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 33(7), 1799-1818 (1972)
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)
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.
Mingshan Zhu et al.
ACS applied materials & interfaces, 4(11), 6386-6392 (2012-11-10)
In this paper, we report that cube-like Ag/AgCl nanostructures could be facilely fabricated in a one-pot manner through a direct-precipitation protocol under ambient conditions, wherein no additional issues such as external energy (e.g., high temperature or high pressure), surfactants, or

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