This salt is yellow but typical samples are grayish due to the presence of elemental silver.

It is poorly soluble in water, like most transition metal carbonates.

[8] Freshly prepared silver carbonate is colourless, but the solid quickly turns yellow.

[9] Silver carbonate reacts with ammonia to give the diamminesilver(I) ([Ag(NH3)2]+) complex ion.

[12] In the Fétizon oxidation, silver carbonate on Celite[13] serves as an oxidising agent to form: In the Koenigs-Knorr reaction it is used to convert alkyl bromides to the methyl ethers.