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Compounds | Reactions | Production
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| Reactions of Silver |
 Reactions with water |
| Silver will not react with clean water. |
| Reactions with air |
| Silver is stable in air under normal conditions. |
| Reactions with halogens |
| Silver will react with fluorine to form silver(II) difluoride. |
Ag(s) + F2(g) AgF2(s) |
| Reactions with acids |
| Silver dissolves in hot concentrated sulphuric acid and also in nitric acid (dilute or concentrated). |
| Reduction Potentials | |
| Balanced half-reaction | E0 / V |
Ag+ + e- Ag(s) |
+0.799 |
| Ag+ + e-Ag(s) |
+0.228 |
| Ag+ + e-Ag(s) |
+0.792 |
| Ag+ + e-Ag(s) |
+0.77 |
| Ag2+ + e-Ag+ |
+1.998 |
| AgO+ + 2H+ + e-Ag2+ + H2O
|
+2.016 |
| 2AgO(s) + 2H+ + 2e-Ag2O + H2O
|
+1.41 |
| 2AgO(s) + H2O + 2e-Ag2O + OH- |
+0.599 |
| Ag2O(s) + 2H+ + 2e-2Ag(s) + H2O
|
+1.173 |
| Ag2O(s) + H2O + 2e-2Ag(s) + 2OH- |
+0.342 |
| Ag2CrO4(s) + 2e-2Ag(s) + CrO42- |
+0.446 |
| Ag2S(s) + 2H+ + 2e-2Ag(s) + H2S(g) |
-0.036 |
| Ag2S(s) + 2e-2Ag(s) + S2- |
-0.712 |
| AgCl(s) + e-Ag(s) + Cl- |
+0.222 |
| AgCl(s) + e-Ag(s) + Cl- |
+0.228 |
| AgBr(s) + e-Ag(s) + Br- |
+0.073 |
| AgI(s) + e-Ag(s) + I- |
-0.151 |
| Ag(CN)2- + e-Ag(s) + 2CN- |
-0.31 |
| Ag(S2O3)23- + e-Ag(s) + 2S2O32- |
+0.017 |