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Make Silver Acetate

NurdRage - 2012-11-26

We make silver acetate used for making conductive silver ink.

Silver acetate is made by reacting 20g of silver nitrate in 10mL of water with 20g of sodium acetate in 50mL of water and filtering the precipitated silver acetate. It is washed several times with water and allowed to dry.

Beau Fairbrother - 2012-12-07

Love your vids, this is helping me in my Chem class, I appreciate it!!!

igrewold - 2017-12-13

Cool man, thanks.
Anyone made that ink yet? and used it? Maybe, one can put it in an empty inkjet cartridge (initial idea/haven't tested it)
Drill your empty cartridge from top, remove the top paper label. you will/might see something like a tiny circle, drill there, just surface drilling do not go too far inside. You can see the thickness of the top plastic cover from the outside, it is just a coupla millimeters. drill bit size is like 2 ~ 3 mm ) better beclose to the size of a syringe as possible.
If you got no drill then hold an iron nail with pliers and heat it on a gas stove/torch...etc. and use it slowly and carefully to make a hole at the same place.
Then use a needle/syringe to inject the ink. If you ain't wanting to try then just refill your regular printer ink ;D
Get refills from ebay or aliexpress...etc., make sure it is for same printer brand (HP/Epson/Canon..etc.) or as close as possible to model #.
then use a tiny plastic washer, (make a washer from a small softdrink/water bottle cap if you needed to)
And use a short screw to close the hole.
before closing/tightening screw and washer, let ink settle for some time (15~60min and maybe more ain't sure)

deadboy - 2012-11-27

This is awesome!

Sunny Cheng - 2019-04-17

In a practical on inorganic qualitative analysis I did recently, my sample was a colorless solution with pH 10. When I did the silver nitrate test, white solid appeared and clumped together. But chlorides can't have alkaline pH! It had no reaction with BaCl2 or KMnO4 either. How can I know what it is when all textbooks say all acetates are soluble? I should have watched your video.

beeforcake - 2012-11-26

I almost missed this one, I think you should have all your videos public, I thought you blew yourself up since you hadn't uploaded in a while.

Bondar Werschler - 2014-10-26

Nurdrage thx dude I used the sodium acetate trihyrdrate for a science project and got an A+

Kinar R - 2012-12-24

Yeah. It's always good to learn more.

ARSEN ADAMEN - 2018-11-27

Hi. I didn't get answer from you...in your experiment you use 20g of silver nitrate --how many grams silver acetate will you get in the end if you use 20 g silver nitrate and 20 g sodium?

ARSEN ADAMEN - 2018-11-22

sorry, I don't have so much information about it. which kind of reducing agent or pyrolyze can I add to recover silver? Could you little bit more details?

Krisztián Szirtes - 2013-01-21

Hidrogen is "stronger" than silver and it won't react.

retroeng - 2012-12-30

hey, can Cu conductive ink can be made as well?

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Jakub Rosman - 2013-10-26

Is there a better way to quantitatively transfer that? If assume using vacuum filtration might be more efficient.

Andrew Taylor - 2013-02-18

please respond I don't know where to buy silver nitrate or silver acetate. where can I buy some? @nurdrage

Krisztián Szirtes - 2012-11-26

what is the program that you use?

zenosxr - 2012-12-15

I enjoy all your videos, even synthesis videos with no later purpose. Rather than have people have to UTFSE trying to find random videos posted, you could make a new channel and post them there. Maybe "Nurdrage Synthetic" or something. Is more work, but just an idea.

Chris Anderson - 2020-01-31

do u have print outs on the patron?

Aidan - 2013-01-21

Ohhhh ok...thanks!

ARSEN ADAMEN - 2018-11-22

Hi. Please, tell me: how many grams silver acetate will you get in the end if you use 20 g silver nitrate and 20 g sodium?

one more question. is it possible to get silver metal from silver acetate and how?

NurdRage - 2018-11-22

You can easily calculate the stoichiometry of the reaction. If you want to recover the silver, add a reducing agent or pyrolyze it

watchoutfortheskyrim - 2012-12-08

me to, thanks alot

Aniruddha Mondal - 2013-05-17

nice

NurdRage - 2012-11-26

I know people don't like pure synthetic videos without applications so now i'm publishing those videos without having them appear in the subscription feed. I think it's a win for all. Less clutter in application videos with multiple synthetic steps, and less boring stuff appearing in subscription feeds, leaving just the more useful application videos to appear in the feeds. i'll start hiding similar demo videos too.

Peter Catsoulis - 2015-10-13

hey NurdRage, I need to make silver(I) trifluoroacetate, I am honestly not sure whether or not this will work the same. any thoughts?

kan petyim - 2017-07-12

Maybe you can replace acetic acid with fluoroacetic acid

szczur piekielny - 2017-11-29

use sodium trifluoroacetate

Aidan - 2013-01-20

Couldn't you just use silver metal and vinegar?

Abdega - 2017-04-11

Aidan Low chances are it doesn't react as well with vinegar alone.
Nitric acid/nitrates are oxidizer, so it needs to oxidize the silver before it can be dissolved

However, you might could make a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and vinegar and it might work

Guru of Random - 2013-02-25

Mix it up baby.

Dom - 2012-11-27

Because that's the structure. CH3 is bonded to a carbon with an oxygen single bonded and another that is double bonded.

Krisztián Szirtes - 2013-01-21

I... have... never seen thing like that... Nurdrage thumbed down!

Bongos - 2012-12-12

cool

parfect help - 2017-07-30

Plz. Make a video .how to mek silver art clay
Plz .sher me this cly making idea.plz sir
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Chacina Brava - 2012-11-26

i like em tho

Kinar R - 2012-12-24

Sodium Acetate. CO2 == COO

Mike Ehrmantraut - 2012-12-07

Noooooo, we like all!

beeforcake - 2012-11-26

That's what I meant, I'm just not very eloquent.

AZR NSMX1 - 2014-11-17

Why not do the same but with cupper?, cuper acetate.

Harrison William - 2012-11-26

dat sweater.

NurdRage - 2012-11-26

It's fully public. It's just set to not appear in subscription feeds. but it is fully linkable, searchable and shareable.

jaco parish - 2013-04-29

No, and even if he could, that would be boring.

Aidan - 2013-01-21

why not? Distilled white vinegar is acetic acid, or use glacial acetic acid. If it were heated to higher temperatures, wouldn't it react eventually to make hydrogen gas, like making most acetate salts?

Alexander Science - 2012-12-03

What CH3CO2Na ?????

NurdRage - 2013-01-20

no