how to make silver oxide

In this video I show how to make silver oxide (Ag2O) from silver metal.

[@adelinyoungmark1929]

the silver nitrate solution can also be used as an electrolyte in a silver crystal cell, if you ever want your silver back in metalic form.

[@andreasthealchemist9446]

yep!

[@kevinlcarlson]

Or just add copper wire to the solution to bring out metallic Silver

[@PoorMansChemist]

A nice demo. I make all my own HNO3 because it's too expensive to buy so I'd have distilled that left over HNO3 to recover the acid and more AgNO3. But that's just me. 🙂

[@call.me.heisenberg6990]

I make my own HNO3 because in the libtard EU it's forbidden. 😀

[@gilgoldmuenze2570]

If you suck the brown nitric fumes through a gas washing bottle, you can also get back the nitric that is lost in the air otherwise... (I use 3 in row.) but don't tell anyone!

[@andreasthealchemist9446]

Thanks. Yeah I make my own nitric with a birkeland eyde generator - check out one of my older videos about that :-)

[@عليسعيد-ج3ص]

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[@petevenuti7355]

What other things are highly sensitive to reversible photo redox reactions that you can think of?

[@PoorMansChemist]

Many thallium(I) salts are photosensitive and will discolor like silver salts only they do it a little more slowly. I still am careful to keep my thallium(I) halides out of sunlight.

[@petevenuti7355]

@@PoorMansChemist Im thinking something less expensive or toxic, like something I wouldn't mind on the window sill *above* my kitchen sink instead of under the sink with the cyanide...

[@kevinlcarlson]

Early photographs were made using the daguerrotype or cyanotype process

[@petevenuti7355]

@@kevinlcarlsonI thought of that and uranotypes as well. The thing is my goal is thinking of components for part of an organic battery , part organic at least.. The different oxidation states are there, but the cyanide complex is so stable I'm not sure how reversible it would be for recharging.

[@herwew7476]

What are you planning to use the Silver Oxide for? Good video.

[@andreasthealchemist9446]

I want to fuse it with sodium metal - going to explain this in another video

[@herwew7476]

@@andreasthealchemist9446 Sounds rather violent, be carful :)

[@EddieTheH]

I like to refer to silver oxide as oxygen argentide, it's more accurate and confuses lots of people!!! 😁😁😁

[@petevenuti7355]

So you were caught yellow handed!!!

[@andreasthealchemist9446]

somewhat :-)