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Chemical Reactions of Silver, Lead, and Mercury

The document describes various chemical reactions involving silver chloride, plumbous chloride, mercurous chloride, and other metal salts. When silver chloride is boiled with water or treated with excess ammonium hydroxide, it forms a gray precipitate that is insoluble. Plumbous chloride forms a white crystalline precipitate of plumbous hydroxide when reacted with aqueous sodium hydroxide. Mercurous chloride forms a white curdy precipitate in solution.

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Chemical Reactions of Silver, Lead, and Mercury

The document describes various chemical reactions involving silver chloride, plumbous chloride, mercurous chloride, and other metal salts. When silver chloride is boiled with water or treated with excess ammonium hydroxide, it forms a gray precipitate that is insoluble. Plumbous chloride forms a white crystalline precipitate of plumbous hydroxide when reacted with aqueous sodium hydroxide. Mercurous chloride forms a white curdy precipitate in solution.

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Reagents Formula 4-2 HCl AgCl (Silver chloride)

Ag

a) Boiling water b) Excess NH4OH

AgCl
+

Color & Nature White curdy ppt to gray ppt when exposed to light insoluble

Formula PbCl2 (Plumbous chloride) Aqueous solution of PbCl2 Pb(OH)2 (Plumbous hydroxide)

Pb Color & Nature White crystal ppt

+2

Hg2 Formula Hg2Cl2 or HgCl (Mercurous chloride)

2+

Color & Nature White curdy ppt

4-3 NH4OH a) excess

4-4 NaOH

a)excess

Ag(NH3)2 (Silver diamine complex ion) or Ag(NH3)2Cl (Silver diamine chloride) AgOH (silver hydroxide) + Ag(NH3)2 (Silver diamine complex ion) or Ag(NH3)2OH (Silver diamine hydroxide) AgOH (silver hydroxide) & Ag2O (silver oxide) AgOH (silver hydroxide) & Ag2O (silver oxide)

Colorless solution

Soluble colorless solution White ppt

Hg2Cl2 or HgCl
0

insoluble

HgNH2Cl & Hg (mercury aminochloride and metallic mercury)

White & black ppt

White ppt Soluble colorless solution

Pb(OH)2 Pb(OH)2

White ppt insoluble

HgO . HgNH2NO3 (basic mercury aminonitrate) HgO . HgNH2NO3 (basic mercury aminonitrate)

White & black ppt Insoluble

White to brown ppt

Pb(OH)2

White amorphous ppt

Hg2O (mercurous oxide)

Black ppt

insoluble

4-5 K2CrO4

Ag2CrO4 (silver chromate)

Brownish red ppt

Pb(OH)4 (Lead tetrahydro xide complex ion) or Na2PbO2 (Sodium Plumbite) PbCrO4 (plumbous chromate) Na2PbO2 (Sodium Plumbite) PbI2 (Plumbous iodide) PbI2 (Plumbous iodide)

2-

Soluble colorless solution

Hg2O (mercurous oxide)

Insoluble

Yellow ppt

Hg2CrO4 (mercurous chromate)

a) NaOH

Ag2CrO4 (silver chromate) AgI (silver iodide) AgI (silver iodide)

insoluble

Soluble - yellow solution Yellow ppt

Hg2CrO4 (mercurous chromate) Hg2I2 or HgI (mercurous iodide) HgI4 & Hg (mercury tetraiodide complex ion and metallic mercury or 0 K2HgI4 & Hg (potassium mercury tetraiodide complex ion and metallic mercury)
20

Orange red ppt but brownish red on boiling Insoluble

4-6 KI

Canary yellow ppt Insoluble

a) excess

insoluble

Greenish yellow or green ppt Colorless solution with black ppt

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