A few from my old pictures: some crystalline silver.



How to make a christmas tree from silver: place a piece of copper wire in a silver (nitrate/sulfate) solution and beautiful silver crystals will start to grow on the surface of the copper, while the copper dissolves into the solution.

2 AgNO3 + Cu = Cu(NO3)2 + 2 Ag

Ag2SO4 + Cu = CuSO4 + 2 Ag

If anyone want to try out this experiment, here is how to do it: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-some-crystalline-metallic-silver-easil-1/

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