shiny shiny

[Uiblis]

dextrose + AgNO₃ + NH₄OH + KOH + glass container= swag



hopefully the guys in charge won't be too mad about how I spent my time in the lab. XD

also they hopefully won't notice that they're one 100 ml volumetric flask short...

Also, whoever comes up with a genius way to mass produce approximately 30 of these in two days gets cookies.

[Wolf Snare]

making meth?

[Genevieve]

In high school, our lab assistant got very angry one day when our class learnt how to do this and then did it to pretty much every glass container we could find.

[Uiblis]

lolz.

Apparently, these are considered "valuable" by people who've never seen them before. I'm not talking money, but national sci o competition is coming up and we trade these every year with the 49 other teams. we get some good stuff back ;)

Unfortunately my teammates are too lazy to make em, and I've been out of school for the past week cos of ap testing. We leave for Ohio this week Thursday. So I have approx. 2 hours Wednesday to mass produce a ton of these for trading. smh

[Krowdon]

What happened to it?

Why is it silver.

[Gen. Volkov]

He turned it into a mirror. Those chemicals in combination are what they use to back mirrors. It's a reduction reaction, in which the dextrose acts as an electron source, causing the silver nitrate to be reduced to a pure metal, and the pure silver is then deposited on the inside of the beaker.

As for mass production, no idea dude, you need to get your hands on a bunch of chemicals, because I doubt you have to resources for electroplating.

[windhound]

Shiney

[Uiblis]

EDIT: Nvm, I'm stupid. Don't have enough stuff for that. Nice idea with the electroplating though, though I'm not sure how that could coat only the inside rather than the outside of the bottle

[Gen. Volkov]

Cover the outside of the bottle in plastic, or something else you could peel off. The metal would electroplate to both the inside and the outside, but you could peel off the outside, leaving just the inside electroplated. Also you could just use brush electroplating.