Formation of Silver crystals

[skateboy159]

why mine silver when u can make it ^_^

[MrPilotstyle]

I find the description so.....accessable.

[Chmielok]

It is great when you have CuSO4 and a more reactive metal like zinc.

[Backyardfireworks]

what can you do with the silver crystals? are they forgeable?

[kyle7ss]

this most be pre bill nye

[ChibiChan1988]

hmm if i can make that stuff and get some copper it can make me rich hmmmm lol

[Hemitris]

lol, it's not creating silver out of thin air, the silver is already in the silver nitrate solution, you need silver to make silver nitrate solution, and the copper is just "pulling out" the silver in a single replacement reaction.

with laws of equivalent exchange, there's no way you can get rich from that, lol

[russian13578]

I make it at home

[starshock01]

its cheaper to make silver nitrate than to buy it...

[galileo93]

AgNO3 is very expensive.

it's very cool to put a little amount of it on the hand :D

[Hemitris]

that stuff burns ur hand...

[sinkoonsouth]

too bad silver nitrate is expensive

[SobeCrunkMonster]

damn i could get alot of silver by usin this, hell yeah

[Hemitris]

you cant "make" silver, you need silver to make silver nitrate, the copper coil is just "pulling out" the silver from the solution in a single replacement reaction. The silver nitrate solution is also very expensive to buy. It's in fact more expensive to make the solution yourself than to buy the solution, so there's no way you can profit from the reaction lol.

[witeflight]

@Hemitris Thats true! No such thing as alchemy!

[Ninja9191]

@Hemitris true, but then again, we can't make anything. Chemistry is jus moving stuff from A to B to form something else. It's art haha. i now realize your comment is 2 years old

[Hemitris]

@Ninja9191 Yup, I am now taking AP chemistry haha. Wow, two years, alot has went on. It's true that we don't really "make" anything in the creation sense, but we can combine existing elements to form new molecules with new properties.

[SobeCrunkMonster]

silver nitrate gave me cancer >:(

lol jk, but i almost got to work with it in class the other day

[Uberlaser]

Silver Nitrate is not carcinogenic . . . but it stains practically everything in comes into contact with.

[ProdigyBoyo]

yea, i touched it in skl and it left my fingerprints black

[TakronRust]

lol, silver nitrate isn't carcinogenic. But Nickel Sulfate is, so be careful if you use Nickel Sulfate.

[AlexDK5015]

but silver nitrate is still toxic.