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Silver Chloride
Applications: Silver Chloride is employed in Silver plating. Owing to its characteristic of reversible reduction to silver metal, it is used in photochromic lenses. Used as a cathode in sea water activated batteries. In electrochemistry, silver chloride electrode is used for potentiometric measurements. It serves as an antidote for mercury poisoning, and eliminates mercury from body. It is used in glass manufacturing industry. It is useful in the production of bandages, wound healing products and in glaze luster, personal deodorant products, as well as for long term preservation of drinking water in water tanks; its pharmaceutical composition finds use as an antibacterial agent.
Specifications:
Formula AgCl
CAS Number 7783-90-6
Formula Weight 143.32
Color White
Form Powder or chunks
Purity (based on trace metals analysis) 99.999%
Trace metal Impurities ≤ 15.0 ppm
Percent Iron (%Ag titration by AgNO3) 73.4 – 77.1%
Melting Point 455oC
Vapor Pressure 1 mm Hg (912oC)
Silver chloride is stable but discolors on exposure to light, which disintegrates silver chloride into elemental chlorine and metallic silver.
This material is an IATA Hazard for shipping: UN3077, CL 9, PG II