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Why AgCl is white, AgBr pale yellow

AgI yrllow and Ag2S black?

deeksha sharma , 14 Years ago
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Swapnil Saxena

This can be explained on the basic of ionic percentage of the following compounds.

Ionic character Percentage : AgCl>AgBr>AgI>Ag2S

It is generally seen that compounds with more than 20% ionic character are generally colorless.However below 20% shows a shift from orange frm to yellow and finally to black in these compounds with decreasing ionicity or increasing covalent nature.

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