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Offline XIXTRUMP

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Silver Crystals!
« on: December 19, 2010, 10:52:19 PM »
I designed a chemical procedure to obtain silver crystals a year ago. I want to share some pics about the result I obtained.



Soft and beautiful  ;D

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Re: Silver Crystals!
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2010, 09:29:40 PM »
Silver is a metal.
Stereograms of the 32 crystallographic point groups: little bike wheels of cold, hard, pure rationality.

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Re: Silver Crystals!
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2010, 02:51:28 AM »
AWK

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Re: Silver Crystals!
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2010, 08:04:55 AM »
beautiful

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Re: Silver Crystals!
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2010, 06:46:53 PM »
looks like the stuff that precipitates when i use Ag2O to bring a benzylic aldehyde to carboxylic acid.

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Re: Silver Crystals!
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2010, 02:07:13 AM »
looks like the stuff that precipitates when i use Ag2O to bring a benzylic aldehyde to carboxylic acid.
In this reaction some silver is formed.
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Re: Silver Crystals!
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2010, 04:02:04 AM »
That would be expected, yes.

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Re: Silver Crystals!
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2010, 05:54:25 PM »
Looks like cement silver--obtained quite easily from AgNO3 solution (with some free nitric acid) to which a copper plate or wire is added.
Neither flask nor beaker.

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Re: Silver Crystals!
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2011, 12:28:54 PM »
I like it. I have made copper crystals just by having a copper(II) salt and aluminum.

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Re: Silver Crystals!
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2011, 11:20:36 PM »
That's awesome. Sometimes it hurts when I pee and that stuff comes out.

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