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When argentite ore is leached with dilute aqueous sodium cyanide in the presence of air, silver passes into solution as

  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D

Answer: B

Silver forms the linear dicyanoargentate(I) complex, , so the soluble salt is . The other formulae have wrong charge or coordination number for silver(I).
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