What happens when silver chloride is placed in sunlight in a china dish. Write the balanced chemical equation.

Silver chloride (white) on exposure to sunlight for sometime becomes grey. This is due to decomposition of silver chloride into silver and chlorine by sunlight.

2 AgCl (s) \overset{S u n l i g h t}{\to} 2 Ag (s) + {Cl}_{2} (g) White Grey

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