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2 g of silver chloride is taken in a chi...

2 g of silver chloride is taken in a china dish and the china dish is placed in sunlight
for sometime. What will be your observation in this case? Write the chemical reaction
involed in the form of a balanced chemical equation. Identify the type of chemical
reaction.

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Observation. The white colour of silver chloride turns grey in sunlight. This is due to the
decompostition of silver chloride into silver and chlorine by light.
`"Chemical reaction: " underset("Silver chloride")(2AgCl(s))overset(Sunlight)(to) underset("Silver")(2Ag(s)) + underset ("Chlorine")(Cl(g))`
Type of reaction: Photolytic decomposition reaction
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