Will silver sulfate precipitate out in a reaction?
You are confused on a somewhat difficult thing to explain in a Yahoo answer, but for most rxn’s between a quite soluble salt of silver (the anion is not important) and another soluble salt with an anion with which silver would form an “insoluble” salt ppt., the reaction will be quite evident. The literature you came across is speaking of the possibility that you could have a situation where the amount of silver cations is so small (this has to do with solubility equilibria, solubulity products aka Ksp’s, and so forth) that the total concentration of the silver ions able to form a compound which will ppt., in this case silver sulfate, is still so small that the silver sulfate does not drop out. If you look at the Ksp values for silver sulfate, you can determine what the actual solubility of silver sulfate is. Insoluble is an all or nothing term, and rarely is it the case. Even compounds like barium sulfate which has a solubility of 1 gram in 400,000 parts of water (roughly 0.0025g/L com
