Talk:Silver(I) oxide

Silver Oxide is the nickname for a silver oxide-alkaline-zinc primary battery. And it's nicely priced for the dependability and power it delivers. The image to the left is a typical Silver Oxide round battery. Additional information and a more detailed cutaway view are available by clicking on the image.

Two types of Silver Oxide batteries are available, one type with a sodium hydroxide (NaOH) electrolyte and the other with a potassium hydroxide (KOH) electrolyte. Sodium hydroxide types last two to three years making them highly suitable for quartz analog digital watches or digital watches without backlights. Potassium hydroxide types are better for the short bursts of higher current drains that are required from LCD watches with backlights. Hearing aids and electronic measuring instruments also use batteries with a potassium hydroxide electrolyte in combination with a special separator to match the application.

The Silver Oxide battery has a higher closed circuit voltage than a Mercuric Oxide battery and a flatter discharge curve than the Alkaline Manganese Dioxide battery.

Solubility
44th ed. of CRC gives solubility product of AgOH as 1.52e-8 at 20°C. By my calculation, this corresponds to a solubility for Ag2O of about 0.0014 g / 100 ml at 20°C, which is consistent with the chembox number 0.0012 g / 100 ml. Also CRC lists 20°C solubility of AG2O as 0.0013 g / 100 ml one page 649. Hence I am changing the chembox to that. Karlhahn 22:37, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

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