Is silver carbonate soluble?

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Stefan V.
Mar 3, 2017

No.

Explanation:

Silver carbonate, "Ag"_2"CO"_3, is considered insoluble in water because you can only dissolve a very, very small amount of this salt in "1 L" of water at room temperature.

According to Wikipedia, silver carbonate has a solubility of "0.032 g L"^(-1) at 25^@"C".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_carbonate

This means that at 25^@"C", you can only hope to dissolve "0.032 g" of silver carbonate in "1 L" of water. In other words, at 25^@"C", a saturated solution of silver carbonate will contain "0.032 g" of dissolved salt for every "1 L" of water.

As a general rule, carbonates are only soluble if they contain alkali metal cations, i.e. cations of group 1 metal, or the ammonium cation, "NH"_4^(+).

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