Name: Natalie Boyle

Date: 10/6/14

Periodic-als Ionic Compound

Ionic Compound Selected: Silver Chloride
Why did you select this Ionic Compound?
I chose this compound because we have learned and seen the reactions of other elements
with chloride and I am interested to see how silver bonds with it.

How is this Ionic Compound important/relevant to your life?
I just found it interesting.


Facts on the METAL in your Compound

Source 1 Title: Facts About Silver
MLA Citation: Staff, By Live Science. "Facts About Silver." LiveScience. TechMedia Network,
31 May 2013. Web. 06 Oct. 2014.

1. People have known about silver since ancient times. It is mentioned in the Bible.
Humans learned to separate silver from lead as early as 3000 B.C.
2. It is stable in pure air and water, but tarnishes when exposed to ozone, hydrogen
sulfide or air containing sulfur.
3. It is slightly harder than gold but still very ductile and malleable.
4. Pure silver has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of all metals and
the lowest contact resistance.
5. Silver itself is not toxic, but most of its salts are. Silver can be a germicide, killing
many lower organisms without harming higher animals
6. Sterling silver is the mostly commonly seen form of silver today. It is often used
for jewelry, silverware and decorations.
7. It is used in mirror production and may be deposited on glass or metals.
8. Silver is one of the most famous metals, it has been used in coinage for many
centuries.
9. Sterling silver is the mostly commonly seen form of silver today. It is often used
for jewelry, silverware and decorations
10. Sterling silver is 92.5 percent silver; the rest is copper or another metal.





Facts on the NONMETAL in your Compound

Source 2 Title:
MLA Citation:
1. Since it combines directly with nearly every element, chlorine is never found free
in nature. - highly compatible.
2. Atomic Number: 17
3. Chlorine was first produced by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, a Swedish chemist, when he
combined the mineral pyrolusite (MnO
2
) with hydrochloric acid (HCl) in 1774.
4. Chlorine is commonly used as an antiseptic and is used to make drinking water
safe and to treat swimming pools
5. Large amounts of chlorine are used in many industrial processes, such as in the
production of paper products, plastics, dyes, textiles, medicines, antiseptics,
insecticides, solvents and paints.
6. Chlorine is a very dangerous material. Liquid chlorine burns the skin and gaseous
chlorine irritates the mucus membranes.
7. Greenish yellow coloring.
8. The pure element has the physical form of a green gas.
9. In its liquid and solid form it is a powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent.
10. Chlorine is abundant in our oceans and it is the sixth most abundant element in Earths crust.

Facts on the Ionic Compound

Source 3 Title: Silver Chlroride
MLA Citation: "Silver Chloride." WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements. N.p., n.d.
Web. 06 Oct. 2014.
1. Formula: AgCl
2. Colour: white
3. Appearance: crytalline solid. Light sensitive,
4. Melting point: 455C, Boiling point: 1550C
5. Since silver bromide, AgBr, and silver iodide, AgI, react similarly, all three of these silver
halide salts are used in making photographic films and plates.
6. Besides use in photography, silver chloride is used in silver plating
7. Comes in a powder that is insoluble in water.
8. Darkens on the exposure to light.
9. produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a chloride
1o. Insoluble in alcohol, dilute acids