The Make and mend club. A story of boys' adventures, sports and experiments (1883)
Van Orden, Howard · New York, A. Sibley · leaf 81
to a decanter four drachms of nitrate of silver, and fill up the decanter with distilled or rain water; then drop in about an ounce of mercury, and place the vessel where it may not be dis¬ turbed; in a short time the silver will be precipitated in the most beautiful arborescent form, resembling… … Fig. 70. The above experiments show the precipitation of one metal by another, owing to the affinity that exists between them. The metal in solution having a greater affinity for the pure metal sus¬ pended in it, precipitates itself from the solution, and becomes firmly attached thereto. ENGRAVING…
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