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Similarly, when silver bromide is put under sunlight, it decomposes into silver metal and
bromine gas.
Photographic paper has coat of silver chloride, which turns into grey when exposed to
sunlight. It happens because silver chloride is colourless while silver is a grey metal.
White silver chloride in sunlight turns to-
(a) grey (b) yellow
(c) remain white (d) red
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