It's a Christmas ornament! Looks like something not to interesting right? WRONG! We made them in my AP Chemistry class. This once was a crystal clear ornament, but then we added chemicals to it like silver nitrate, ammonium hydroxide, and potassium oxide(not sure if this one is correct cause i cant remember exactly), but we added them all together and swirled them around and around until the solution turned black then it coated the inside with this silver shiny coloring. Its real silver in there and its like super duper shiny. Its so very simple of a thing...yet i am really proud of it, not sure why, but i am. Though, if any of you know what ammonium hydroxide smells like, and if you don't it smells terrible...like super chemically smell, its stuck in my nose because we were like in hailing it all hour and i could hardly breath at times because the smell was that bad. Every time a take a deep breath that's all i smell. But i guess for now that's ok cause i made this from using it, and also the silver nitrate stained my skin a bit. But hey, all worth it in the end.
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