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Make Your Own Silver Mirror—A Microscale Super Value Laboratory Kit

By: John Mauch, Southridge H.S., Kennewick, WA

Make Your Own Silver Mirror Microscale Laboratory Kit
Make Your Own Silver Mirror Microscale Laboratory Kit
Item #: AP8981 

Price: $48.58

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With the Make Your Own Silver Mirror Microscale Laboratory Kit, students create microscale silvered culture tubes by reacting silver-ammonia complex ions with dextrose. Reinforce principles of oxidation, reduction, and organic chemistry.

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Beautiful silver chemistry "mirrors" real-life applications of oxidation and reduction! Students create microscale silvered culture tubes by reacting silver-ammonia complex ions with dextrose. Dextrose is a reducing sugar—it reduces silver ions to silver metal, coating the inside of the glass tube with a durable, reflective silver mirror. The reaction was first used to produce mirrors by the German chemist, Justus von Liebig, in 1835, and is still used for that purpose today. It's also the basis of a classic qualitative test in organic chemistry. Combine history with current applications of chemistry and reinforce principles of oxidation, reduction, and organic chemistry, all in one very effective lab activity. Super Value Kit is complete with materials to plate 75 small culture tubes.

Specifications

Materials Included in Kit: 
Ammonium nitrate solution, 12%, 50 mL
Dextrose solution, 5%, 50 mL
Silver nitrate solution, 8%, 25 mL
Sodium hydroxide solution, 10%, 50 mL
Culture tubes, 6 x 50 mm, 75
Pipet, Beral-type, thin stem, 20


Correlation to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)†

Science & Engineering Practices

Constructing explanations and designing solutions

Disciplinary Core Ideas

MS-PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter
MS-PS1.B: Chemical Reactions
MS-PS3.B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
HS-PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter
HS-PS1.B: Chemical Reactions
HS-PS3.B: Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns
Energy and matter

Performance Expectations

MS-PS1-2. Analyze and interpret data on the properties of substances before and after the substances interact to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.
HS-PS1-2. Construct and revise an explanation for the outcome of a simple chemical reaction based on the outermost electron states of atoms, trends in the periodic table, and knowledge of the patterns of chemical properties.