Silver mirrored bottles

[Glaskocher]

You can make a potassium mirror by subliming the metal in an evacuated flask.

[MarbsLab]

Yes, I know

Markus

[mgritsch]

Yes, I know

Well then feel free to make one and show here…

[andrewtretiakov]

How about some copper mirror?
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Excellent! Is this done using hydrazine as a reducing agent? Please share your method. I've only done it using thermal decomposition of copper formate:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ed101143r

Works pretty well but not as good as yours

Anyway, here is a photo

copper mirror

Thanks,
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[andrewtretiakov]

You can make a potassium mirror by subliming the metal in an evacuated flask.

Thanks, I've been trying to do one but I have no access to a Schlenk line only a commercial standard vacuum pump.
Still, I got this one a few years back:

Potassium mirror

Not perfect but work in progress.
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[mgritsch]

Excellent! Is this done using hydrazine as a reducing agent? Please share your method.

Formaldehyde works pretty well!
I am still optimising the method a bit, but will post as soon as worked out properly.

[lemmi]

[EDIT by Lemmy: checked and transferred to articels collection]