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saved How could you get solid silver chloride to dissolve into a saturated solut

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saved How could you get solid silver chloride to dissolve into a saturated solution? Add silver nitrate, reacting with the silver chloride, and causing silver chloride to A) precipitate out of solution. B) Add ammonia, forming the silver ammonia complex ion, which is soluble. Add sodium chloride, reacting with the chloride already in solution and pulling silver C) into solution. D) Add ammonia. raising the pH of the solution and pulling chloride ions into solution esponse em Save Quiz Started ] e

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Ans 1. B) Add ammonia , forming the silver ammonia complex ion which is soluble.

When silver nitrate is reacted with Sodium chloride , silver chloride precipitates . To dissolve this precipitate , ammonia is added . Ammonia reacts with it forming a silver ammonia complex ion , which is soluble in the solution.