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Why there is a black coating on silver?


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Tarnishing:

  • Tarnish is a thin layer of corrosion that occurs on the surface of copper, brass, aluminium, magnesium, neodymium, and other similar metals as their outermost layer reacts chemically.
  • Tarnish is not usually caused only by the effects of oxygen in the air.

The black coating on silver:

  • Blacking coating on silver is due to the formation of silver sulphide (Ag2S).
  • Silver when exposed to the atmosphere, reacts with Sulfur and Sulfur compounds present, to give silver sulphide (Ag2S) which is black.
  • exposed silver produces Ag2S when it reacts with H2S(g) which comes into the atmosphere due to many industrial processes.
  • The chemical reaction for the tarnishing of silver is as follows:
  • 4Ag(s)+2H2S(g)+O2g2Ag2S(s)+2H2O(g)

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