if you get silver nitrate on something, be it skin, clothes, etc, it will produce a localized brown stain after it has been exposed to sunlight. i have some of it on my skin now, can't argue with the results! i was just wondering what the reaction is... does the Ag+ and/or NO3- form some other compound? why does the brown stain remain localized, if the compound is so water-soluble (and the human body is mostly water)?
no wikipedia answers, i was totally dissatisfied by their information.
2006-07-14
00:26:40
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