1. Silver Voyage from Macro- to Nanoworld.
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Soukupova, Jana, Kvitek, Libor, Kratochvilova, Martina, Panacek, Ales, Prucek, Robert, and Zboril, Radek
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SCIENTIFIC experimentation , *SILVER metallurgy , *MICROSCOPE slides , *SODIUM hydroxide , *PREVENTION ,HAZARDOUS substance accidents ,PALACKY University (Olomouc, Czech Republic) - Abstract
The article presents a science experiment to help high school students, chemistry students, and students from Palacky University in Czech Republic prepare silver mirror with a modified Tollens process. It discusses how a pretreatment of a microscope slide is done before the Tollens process for the preparation of macroscopic silver particles. Safety precautions for hazardous chemicals such as silver nitrate, gaseous ammonia, and sodium hydroxide are presented.
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- 2010
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