You will need
- Caustic potash, silver nitrate, ammonia, formalin, distilled water, rubber gloves, glass cuvette
Instruction
1
To create the mirror surface use the technique of chemical silvering of glass. Thoroughly wash and dry the glass surface and then degrease it pyatnadcatiletnim a solution of potassium hydroxide. Heat the distilled water and dip glass in warm liquid. For prepare reagents, distilled water and rubber gloves.
2
Prepare two solutions for silvering. For the first mix a solution of 1.6 g of silver nitrate with 30 ml of distilled water, and then dropwise in the twenty-five-percentage solution of ammonia. Drip in a solution of ammonia, until the precipitate dissolved. Add 100 ml of distilled water.
3
Then prepare the second final solution – 5 ml coronarienne formalin solution mixed with the solution obtained in the previous step, and pour the mixture on the glass, previously put it in a special flask or cuvette. Wait for the reaction and after two or three minutes, rinse the mirror with distilled water.
4
Dry the mirror at a temperature of 100-150 degrees in an upright position. After two hours cool down the mirror and cover the mirror surface with a transparent varnish from a spray.
5
Apply on opaque glass paint any colour if you decide to make a mirror-like inner surface of the glass. For silvering the exterior glass surface use a special bath with selebrasi solution, into which dips the mirror for 5-10 minutes.
6
After coating the mirror film lacquer from a spray be sure to dry the mirror in a horizontal position and carefully handle the fragile silver film.