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How To Recover Silver
How To Recover Silver
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You can not convert silverchlorid with lye (NaOH) into silvernitrate. There is no N for the nitrate to
build. Your video steps are correct, but not the message what is happening! 1. step you dissolve
silver into silvernitrate with nitric acid and make brown fumes (NOx): 3 Ag + 4 HNO3 (nitric acid)
-->3 AgNO3 (silvernitrate) + H2O (water) + NO ( the brown fumes) 2. Step give HCl and drop
white silverchloride ---filter --> filter, all N is then gone with the liquid and so you can`t build new
nitric silver! 3. step AgCl with NaOh (lye) builds AgO and NaCl +H2O suggar C6 H12 O6 reduces
the silveroxyd to metall silver