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  Silver nitrate
A poisonous, corrosive compound, silver nitrate crystals can be produced by dissolving silver in nitric acid and evaporating the solution.
These specks apparently attract positive silver ions, which are then neutralized to form groups of stable silver atoms, creating a latent image that is chemically developed to reveal a photographic image.
Silver nitrate has been used as an antiseptic, dropped into new born babies' eyes at birth.
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 Silver nitrate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In histology, silver nitrate is used for silver staining, for demonstrating proteins and nucleic acids.
Silver nitrate is used to prepare some silver-based explosives, such as the fulminate, azide, or acetylide, through a precipitation reaction.
Silver nitrate is harmful to the environment and is especially toxic to aquatic species.
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 ATSDR - Public Health Statement: Silver
Silver is rare but occurs naturally in the environment as a soft, "silver" colored metal Because silver is an element, there are no man-made sources of silver People make jewelry, silverware, electronic equipment, and dental fillings with silver in its metallic form.
Silver levels of less than 0.000001 mg silver per cubic meter of air (mg/m³), 0.2-2.0 parts silver per billion parts water (ppb) in surface waters, such as lakes and rivers, and 0.20-0.30 parts silver per million parts soil (ppm) in soils are found from naturally occurring sources.
For example, silver nitrate was used for many years as drops in newborns' eyes to prevent blindness caused by gonorrhea, and it is also used in salves for burn victims.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /toxprofiles/phs146.html   (2336 words)

  
 ATSDR - ToxFAQs™: Silver
Pure silver is "silver" colored, but silver nitrate and silver chloride are powdery white and silver sulfide and silver oxide are dark-gray to fl.
Silver is often found as a by-product during the retrieval of copper, lead, zinc, and gold ores.
Silver builds up in the body, and the best way to learn if past exposure has occurred is to look for silver in samples of skin.
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 The Silver Institute-Silver News
While topical application of silver compounds in other forms-under prescription from a physician- offers clinically tested and verifiable beneficial health effects, reports of successful control of specific diseases by silver colloids has been anecdotal; no recognized studies show specific efficacy, the FDA stated Colloidal silver is a suspension of silver particles in a colloidal base.
Silver colloids were introduced some ninety years ago before the advent of the powerful bactericides and their careless overuse led to discoloration of the skin.
Because silver nitrate is very astringent, Dr. Charles L. Fox, Columbia University School of Physicians and Surgeons, in 1968, combined silver with sulfadiazine to form a mild, but equally effective compound.
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 Colloidal Silver News Flash
Although pure colloidal silver is as clear as water, in the presence of oxygen it turns yellow and finally dark brown.
It was found that silver had been used effectively for hundreds of years in one form or another to treat infection and unlike the newer antibiotics, silver had well proven itself to be totally non-toxic at all concentrations.
With a modern, low cost colloidal silver generator, all that is required to produce the finest colloidal silver of known quality, concentration and freshness is to fill a bottle with distilled water, press a button, wait about half an hour until the generator signals it is done.
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 Silver Nitrate Remover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I am, in fact not looking for the formula of silver nitrate, but was wondering if you could tell me the formula of the removal agent.
Alas, the stain left by silver nitrate in your clothes is not silver nitrate -- it is silver metal.
However, I suspect what you are seeing is a fl stain that results from the reduction of silver nitrate on the fabric to colloidal silver metal and/or silver oxide, neither of which will come out easily.
www.newton.dep.anl.gov /askasci/chem00/chem00294.htm   (263 words)

  
 Silver Nitrate in Tissue Cultures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A number of researchers have reported that addition of silver nitrate to the culture medium promotes in vitro regeneration, possibly due to the compound’s anti-ethylene activity.
Orlikowska and colleagues at Poland’s Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture report that, not only does silver nitrate stimulate direct shoot regeneration from rose (Rosa indica) leaves taken from in vitro cultures and cocultivated with Agrobacterium tumefaciens for genetic transformation studies, but the compound also inhibits bacterial growth after cocultivation (Genet.
At a concentration of 100 mg/liter in after-cocultivation regeneration medium, silver nitrate completely retards bacterial growth for up to 3 weeks.
aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu /tisscult/bookrev/silvernitrate.html   (140 words)

  
 Silver nitrate - Patient UK
Silver nitrate is used to remove warts and verrucas on the hands and feet.
Using a little water, moisten the tip of the silver nitrate pencil and apply to each wart or verruca for 1-2 minutes, rub the wart or verruca gently with the file provided and apply the protective dressing.
Silver nitrate occasionally causes skin irritation such as redness, itching, or a burning sensation.
www.patient.co.uk /showdoc/30003725   (496 words)

  
 Safety of Colloidal Silver -Toxicity and Silver Poisoning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Continued and prolonged use of silver salts produces degeneration of tissues and organs, discoloration of skin, hemorrhaging, nervous system impairment, large scale paralysis, loss of coordination, convulsions, and death by respiratory failure due to paralysis.
An independent researcher analyzed silver elimination vs. silver consumed, over a period of several months consuming roughly 2.34 mg of colloidal silver daily.
There are several people through the years that have made brief attempts to induce silver toxicity in their own body via properly made isolated colloidal silver, and we have never heard of a successful attempt, nor have we been able, in a DILIGENT search, to find one case of Argyria related to isolated colloidal silver.
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 Plastic Embedding from Energy Beam Sciences
NOTE: When preparing a solution for or performing any silver staining procedures, it is absolutely essential that all glassware be acid cleaned with concentrated nitric acid and rinsed in several changes of chlorine-free water.
To 95ml of silver nitrate solution, add 50-60 drops of ammonium hydroxide until the solution is clear with no precipitate.
Put slides into silver nitrate solution and place in 56ºC to 60ºC oven until sections are light brown; 60-75 minutes.
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 History of Silver in Medicine and Wound Dressings
For instance, the Romans used silver nitrate therapeutically, and the hermetic and alchemical writings of Paracelsus speak of the virtues of silver as a healing substance.
They used silver nitrate successfully in the treatment of skin ulcers, compound fractures and suppurating (draining puss) wounds.
In 1881, Carl Crede pioneered the installation of dilute silver nitrate in the eye of neonates to prevent gonorrheal ophthalmia, a technique which has been in widespread use ever since.
www.silverlon.com /history.html   (702 words)

  
 halogenoalkanes (haloalkanes) and silver nitrate
This page looks at how silver nitrate solution can be used as part of a test for halogenoalkanes (haloalkanes or alkyl halides), and also as a means of measuring their relative reactivities.
Silver nitrate solution can be used to find out which halogen is present in a suspected halogenoalkane.
In this case, various halogenoalkanes are treated with a solution of silver nitrate in a mixture of ethanol and water.
www.chemguide.co.uk /organicprops/haloalkanes/agno3.html   (836 words)

  
 silver nitrate. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The most important compound of silver, it is used in the preparation of silver salts for photography, in chemical analysis, in silver plating, in inks and hair dyes, and to silver mirrors.
Fused silver nitrate is also called lunar caustic.
It is prepared by reaction of nitric acid with silver, and purified by recrystallization.
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 Silver Nitrate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Solutions of silver nitrate with ammonia, ammonia/sodium carbonate, or ammonia/sodium hydroxide have had several instances of explosions reported.
A dry mixture of powdered magnesium and silver nitrate has been reported to ignite explosively on contact with a drop of water.
Passage of phosphine gas into a solution of silver nitrate resulted in an explosion.
www.camd.lsu.edu /msds/s/silver_nitrate.htm   (401 words)

  
 clayart - thread 'silver nitrate'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The undeveloped silver iodide is dissolved in this,
It is the silver halides which are light sensitive in film.
Silver nitrate is effective in a glaze in the range of 1=2%.
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 8063. Extracting Silver Nitrate
You can go through a couple of additional steps to reduce the silver chloride to metallic silver, but these require intensive environmental controls and are subject to becoming big messes if you don't have expert guidance.
If you want to produce silver of reasonable purity, place a strip of polished copper in the silver nitrate solution.
The silver is replaced by copper and forms needles on the copper strip.
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 Silver nitrate
A detailed account of how powders for powder metallurgy are produced via processes such as solid state reduction, electrolysis, atomisation (including centrifugal atomisation), mechanical comminution and chemical processes such as thermal decomposition.
Silver metal in its pure state has a brilliant white metallic lustre and it is a little harder than gold and is very ductile and malleable.
Basic properties and applications of high purity silver nitrate (AgNO3) from Alfa Aesar are provided.
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 Silver nitrate (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It notably stains skin a greyish or fl color which is made visible after exposure to sunlight.
Silver nitrate has been used as an antiseptic, dropped into newborn babies' eyes at birth.
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 SILVER NITRATE, VOLUMETRIC SOLUTIONS (0.24 - 4.8%)
Effects should be less severe than through exposure to higher concentrations of silver nitrate which may include symptoms of pain and burning in mouth, flening of the skin and mucous membranes, throat and abdomen, diarrhea and shock.
Prolonged or repeated inhalation, application or ingestion of silver compounds may cause a permanent bluish discoloration of the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes.
Silver nitrate: Oral rat LD50: 1173 mg/kg; Irritation, rabbit, eye, Std Draize: 1 mg, severe.
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 Silver Nitrate, Reagent
SILVER NITRATE metal: 0.1 mg/m3 as Ag: 0.01 mg/m3 0.01 mg/m3 TWA mg/m3 IDLH
Section 313 This material contains SILVER NITRATE (listed as ** undefined **), 100%, (CAS# 7761-88-8) which is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 313 of SARA Title III and 40 CFR Part 372.
In no way shall the company be liable for any claims, losses, or damages of any third party or for lost profits or any special, indirect, incidental, consequential or exemplary damages, howsoever arising, even if the company has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
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 silver nitrate — FactMonster.com
The most important compound of silver, it is used in the preparation of silver salts for
, in chemical analysis, in silver plating, in inks and hair dyes, and to silver mirrors.
lunar caustic - lunar caustic: see silver nitrate.
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 SILVER NITRATE
Synonyms: Lunar caustic; silver nitrate toughened; Nitric Acid, Silver (I) Salt
Containers of this material may be hazardous when empty since they retain product residues (dust, solids); observe all warnings and precautions listed for the product.
Whatever cannot be saved for recovery or recycling should be handled as hazardous waste and sent to a RCRA approved waste facility.
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 American Elements: Silver Nitrate Supplier & Tech Info
Silver Nitrate is a highly water soluble crystalline Silver source for uses compatible with nitrates and lower (acidic) pH.
When mixed with hydrocarbons, nitrate compounds can form a flammable mixture.
Silver Nitrate is generally immediately available in most volumes.
www.americanelements.com /agn.html   (75 words)

  
 Safety (MSDS) data for silver nitrate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Click here for data on silver nitrate in student-friendly format, from the HSci project
Synonyms: lunar caustic, silver (I) nitrate, silver (1+) nitrate, nitric acid silver salt
Substances to be avoided include nonmetals, organic substances, alkali hydroxides, acetylidene, acetylene, aldehydes, nitriles, ammonia, alcohols, ammonium compounds, combustible materials, hydrazine and its derivatives, carbides, magnesium in powder form, alcohols.
ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk /MSDS/SI/silver_nitrate.html   (274 words)

  
 Silver Nitrate, Ames Goldsmith Corp.
Silver nitrate is classed by DOT as an oxidizer, UN 1493.
Ames offers a variety of packaging, including bulk packaging, available to suit the customer's dispensing equipment.
Starting material for the manufacture of other silver chemicals such as silver chloride, silver acetate, silver sulfate, etc.
www.amesgoldsmith.com /silvernitrate.htm   (120 words)

  
 Silver nitrate Registration
Silver nitrate - Registration, import consent and bans
Note: See Working with the Information on this Page section below for important notes about this data.
For detailed chemical information see the chemical detail page.
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 ...Silver Nitrate...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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..the corrosion of nitrate and the pearled shining of silver
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 stannic oxide, cupric nitrate, silver nitrate, bismuth nitrate chemicals suppliers in US   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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