Question

Describe an acrivity that can be performed to obtain silver in its free state from silver chloride

Answer 1

1.Take 2g of silver chloride in a china dish.
2.Place the china dish in sunlight for some time
3.You will observe that white silver chloride turns grey in sunlight. This is due to decomposition of silver chloride into silver and chlorine by light.
2AgCl --------> 2Ag+Cl2