Results of Silvering Science Class

It turns out that some of our reagents were old, so we accidentally made dark grey / black mirror ornaments. If anyone is interested in a goth christmas party, let us know. We are going to get newer reagents so that we can reduce the amount of edge in our products.

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Save them for this years tree! No one has to know they were a mistake :wink:

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As a curiosity, specifically what part of the chemistry failed?

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We suspect that the silver nitrate oxidized. It sat in a cabinet doing nothing for 2-3 years. We are going to do a test with new reagents and post the results. I didnt use any of the test glass from glassworks yet, so we will post the results of those as well.

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