Silver carbonate has wide application fields and good industry development prospects

Silver carbonate is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ag2CO3. It appears as a white powder. It will decompose to produce silver oxide and carbon dioxide when heated. It is insoluble in cold water and ethanol, and is easily soluble in dilute nitric acid, ammonia and cyanide alkali solutions. Silver carbonate is an important metal acid that can be widely used in electronics, photography, printing, medical care, chemical industry, electroplating, optoelectronics and other fields.

The current methods for producing silver carbonate mainly include the metathesis method, which refers to the method of using sodium carbonate and silver nitrate as raw materials to produce silver carbonate through a metathesis reaction; the purification method refers to the method of using pure rhombohedral ore as raw materials and purifying to produce silver carbonate. method. In addition, silver carbonate can also collect discarded silver carbonate products from industries such as electronic product manufacturing and medical device manufacturing, and re-produce and reuse them through classification and processing.

Among them, the metathesis method is the main method for producing silver carbonate, and sodium carbonate and silver nitrate are the main raw materials. Taking sodium carbonate as an example, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, China’s cumulative output of sodium carbonate (caustic soda) will reach 39.805 million tons in 2022, a cumulative growth of 1.4%. At present, the domestic supply of upstream raw materials for silver carbonate is sufficient, and the industry has a good foundation for development.

Silver carbonate has a wide range of uses. In the fields of photography and printing, it can be used in the manufacturing of photosensitive materials such as film film, optical film, and color photographic emulsion. In the chemical industry, it can be used in the oxidation of alcohol to aldehyde and the oxidation of hydroquinone to quinone. In electronics In the field of medicine, it can be used in the manufacturing of microelectronic components in the photolithography process; in the field of medicine, it can be used in the sterilization and disinfection of medicine. In recent years, with the rapid development of the downstream market, the demand for silver carbonate has continued to increase and the scale has continued to expand. According to the “China Silver Carbonate Market Monitoring and Future Development Prospects Research Report 2023-2027” released by the Industrial Research Center shows that the domestic silver carbonate market size will reach 1.12 billion yuan in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 14.3%.

Luohe Hanpu Environmental Protection Technology, Changzhou Guoyu Environmental Technology, Ningbo Jiangbei Xinyuan Electrochemical Materials, Nanjing Bermuda Biotechnology, Shanghai Hengyuan Biotechnology, Shaanxi Kaida Chemical, Tianjin Tiangan Chemical Technology, etc. are domestic silver carbonate producers. enterprise. There are not many silver carbonate production companies in my country, and there is still a big gap between local companies and foreign-funded companies such as Strem Chemicals and ChemPur GmbH in terms of technology and scale. There is still a lot of room for growth in the industry in the future.

Industry analysts said that silver carbonate is an important inorganic compound that can be widely used in electronics, In the fields of photography, printing, medical care, chemical industry and other fields, the industry development prospects are good. At present, the number of silver carbonate manufacturers in my country is small and the market demand space is limited. Therefore, domestic silver carbonate is still a niche consumer market, and the market development space in the future needs to be continuously expanded.