APUG - View Single Post - harvesting silver from over-exposed paper

knoxissimpler · 05-05-2008, 09:51 PM

I just realized, the reaction with salt might make pure sodium metal, which is not good in a water solution (unless it's a lake you make things go boom on B - )
anyways, I thought about actually reintroducing the emulsion (removed from the paper) into an aqueous solution, causing them to reform when dried... or using copper hydroxide or copper carbonate in the reaction to replace the salt

or I could dissolve the silver in some nitric or sulfuric acid

Johnny was a chemist's son, but Johnny is no more,
what johnny thought was H20 was H2SO4!
so yes, I know the dangers of doing the above with the acids, before any comments.

05-05-2008, 09:51 PM	#5 (permalink)
knoxissimpler Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 29	I just realized, the reaction with salt might make pure sodium metal, which is not good in a water solution (unless it's a lake you make things go boom on B - ) anyways, I thought about actually reintroducing the emulsion (removed from the paper) into an aqueous solution, causing them to reform when dried... or using copper hydroxide or copper carbonate in the reaction to replace the salt or I could dissolve the silver in some nitric or sulfuric acid Johnny was a chemist's son, but Johnny is no more, what johnny thought was H20 was H2SO4! so yes, I know the dangers of doing the above with the acids, before any comments.