[DOC] [TLE] Make Glass Mirrors With Silver Nitrate, Sugar, Ammonia and Sodium ... [PAR] How to make a mirror silvering solution from silver nitrate, ammonia and sugar.
 Glass surfaces can be given coatings of silver that make them into mirrors.
 ... Get one gram of silver nitrate and one gram of sodium hydroxide. [DOC] [TLE] Make Glass Mirrors with Silver Nitrate - YouTube [PAR] Mar 4, 2009 - 2 min - Uploaded by NurdRageHow to make a mirror silvering solution from silver nitrate, ammonia, sugar and  sodium ... [DOC] [TLE] CF#0295 Heigh-Ho Silver! Demo-Rev [PAR] Example: Prepare 8% silver nitrate solution by dissolving 8 g ... Students can 
make several of the mirrored tubes and glue small corks in them to ... In the 
middle ages, beautiful mirrors were made by backing glass with thin sheets of 
metal foil,... [DOC] [TLE] Mirror, Mirror, On the Bottle [PAR] mirrors were made by polishing disks of a metal such as bronze. These simple ... 
middle ages, beautiful mirrors were made by backing glass with thin sheets of 
metal foil, usually silver. ... Treatment of an aldehyde with a solution of silver 
nitrate. [DOC] [TLE] Silver Mirroring - New Zealand Institute of Chemistry [PAR] backing. It simply involves the spraying a mixture of copper ions and zinc ... A 
mirror is simply a sheet of glass with a very thin layer of silver metal on the back 
surface. ... small number of novelty mirrors are made locally. ... 78 g of silver 
nitrate. [DOC] [TLE] Mirror - Wikipedia [PAR] A mirror is an object that reflects light in such a way that, for incident light in some 
range of ... Mirrors made of other metal mixtures (alloys) such as copper and tin 
speculum ... Ptolemy conducted a number of experiments with curved polished 
iron ... of metallic silver onto glass through the chemical reduction of silver nitrate. [DOC] [TLE] Silvering - Wikipedia [PAR] Silvering is the chemical process of coating glass with a reflective substance. 
When glass ... Ptolemaic Egypt had manufactured small glass mirrors backed by 
lead, tin, or antimony. ... a piece of glass, making the first optical-quality first 
surface glass mirrors, replacing the use of speculum metal mirrors in reflecting 
telescopes. [DOC] [TLE] Stannous Chloride: Silvering Mirrors - Chlorine Chemistry [PAR] The earliest mirrors were highly polished disks of rock or metals, such as bronze, 
tin, copper or silver. ... Today's mirrors are also glass, but with a thin backing of 
silver or aluminum. ... plain glass is treated with stannous chloride before a shiny 
layer of aluminum or silver is produced. ... In water, silver nitrate breaks up:. [DOC] [TLE] Mirror History: Invention of the Mirrors and Its Origins [PAR] It is believed that mirrors made of metal-backed glass this type of mirror was first 
produced ... first century AD and the Romans made crude mirrors from blown 
glass with lead backings. ... a thin layer of metallic silver is put onto glass by the 
chemical reduction of silver nitrate. ... There are many superstitions including 
mirrors. [DOC] [TLE] Patent US3615882 - Method of making a mirror - Google Patents [PAR] Oct 26, 1971 ... Silver mirrors covered with a copper layer by the chemical method outlined .... 
silvered before and copper-backed second surface silver mirrors produced on ... 
If an ammoniacal silver nitrate solution provides the silver salt in the reduction ... 
and by finely dispersed alloys of the several metals mentioned. [DOC] [TLE] Patent US2030476 - Method of producing mirrors - Google Patents [PAR] In the silver plated mirrors heretofore produced, such as flat mirror surfaces, silver 
... by the use of a suitable silver solution combined with a reducing agent to 
cause ... in concentrated sulfuric acid for several hours or at an elevated 
temperature. ... plating the glass flakes with a solution of silver nitrate and 
dextrose, washing... [DOC] [TLE] Mirror Fun: Silvering and Re-Silvering and How to Make Your Own ... [PAR] Dissolve the Nitrate of Silver thoroughly by stirring the water with glass strip (no 
spoon, or stick, or metal should be used). When it is all thoroughly dissolved,...

Question: Many mirrors are made using a backing of AgNO3, a nitrate of this metal
Answer: silver