Tuesday, 27 September 2016

inorganic chemistry - Why do silver nitrate and sodium hydroxide react to produce silver(I) oxide?


I did an experiment in class combining the aqueous solutions of AgNOX3 and NaOH. I predicted that AgOH would form but it didn't, instead a brown precipitate. I found out it was silver oxide. But why does this happen?



I researched and found out that silver is a noble metal and is thus resistant to oxidation, so why is it oxidised in this case?


Also why is AgOH not formed? I looked at the reactivity series and apparently silver can't displace HX+ ions out of solution, is that why?




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