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Dissolving pure silver to make silver nitrate

2016-09-03

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In this video, we dissolve some silver ingots in nitric acid to make silver nitrate.

I plan to use silver nitrate in a few ways. I want to revisit the water sensitive mixture of magnesium and silver nitrate and I want to make the silver mirror (which I have surprisingly never done).

Silver nitrate and magnesium: https://youtu.be/mh--K-vlzw0

Assistant Editor:

Chanel Brun-Soroka

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