silver nitrate

silver nitrate

Product Features

Physical properties: Colorless or white crystals, easily soluble in water and ammonia, soluble in ether and glycerol, slightly soluble in anhydrous ethanol, almost insoluble in concentrated nitric acid.

Chemical properties: Silver nitrate turns grayish black when exposed to organic matter and decomposes into silver. Pure silver nitrate is light stable, but due to the insufficient purity of general products, its aqueous solution and solid are often stored in brown reagent bottles. Silver nitrate decomposes into silver, nitrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen dioxide when heated to 440 ° C. Water solution and ethanol solution have a neutral reaction with litmus, with a pH of about 6. Boiling point 444C (decomposition). It has oxidizing properties. In the presence of organic matter, it turns gray or grayish black when exposed to light.