Silver sulfate

White rhombic crystals

Fixed

5.45 g · cm -3

655 ° C

Decomposition at 1085 ° C

Poorly in water ( 8 g · l-1 at 25 ° C)

Risk

-715.9 KJ / mol

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Silver sulfate is the silver salt of the sulfuric acid, in which silver is present in the oxidation state 1. The salt is used, among other things, in the purification of water ( germicidal ).

Silver sulfate is produced by dissolving silver in hot concentrated sulfuric acid:

Or by metathesis of the silver nitrate in an aqueous solution of an alkali metal sulphate: