silver halide colours
What silver halide colours means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
Chloride gives a white precipitate, bromide a cream one and iodide a yellow one, while fluoride gives no precipitate because silver fluoride is soluble.
Silver chloride is white, silver bromide is cream and silver iodide is yellow.
Topics that use silver halide colours
- Trends in properties (AQA A-Level)
- The periodic table - 3.1.4 Qualitative analysis (OCR A-Level)
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