Why nitric acid is added in Volhard's method

1.	Why nitric acid is added in Volhard's method
Answer» Explanation:Why is NITRIC acid used in the Volhard method? The Volhard method is a back-titration developed to tackle this problem. For this PROCESS, using excess UNIFORM silver nitrate, chlorides are PRECIPITATED to the solution. The silver nitrate that is used is created by the nitric acid reaction of silver FOIL.

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