2 g of silver chloride is taken in a china dish and the china dish is placed in sunlight for some time. What will be your observation in this case? Write the chemical reaction involved in the form of a balanced chemical equation. Identify the type of chemical reaction.


When 2 g of silver chloride is taken in a china dish and the china dish is placed in sunlight for some time, the white sodium chloride turns grey due to the decomposition reaction through the sunlight that decomposes silver chloride into silver and chlorine by light.
$2AgCl \xrightarrow [Sunlight] \ 2Ag + Cl_2$
It is a type of reaction photolytic decomposition reaction.

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