silver chloride

noun, Chemistry
1.
a white, granular, water-insoluble powder, AgCl, that darkens on exposure to light, produced by the reaction of silver nitrate with a chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions and in the making of antiseptic silver preparations.
Origin
1895-1900
Examples from the web for silver chloride
  • Enough must be added to precipitate all the chlorine as insoluble silver chloride.
  • The chloride content was measured by precipitating it as silver chloride and using a potentiometric method.
British Dictionary definitions for silver chloride

silver chloride

noun
1.
a white insoluble powder that darkens on exposure to light because of the production of metallic silver: used in making photographic emulsions and papers. Formula: AgCl