Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Silver cyanate is a chemical compound and the cyanate salt of silver.It can be prepared by reaction of potassium cyanate or urea with silver nitrate.Silver cyanate is a beige to gray powder. It crystallises in the monoclinic crystal system in space group P21/m with parameters a = 547.3 pm b = 637.2 pm c = 341.6 pm und β = 91°.With nitric acid silver cyanate reacts to form carbon dioxide and ammonium nitrate.