So it's been a while since i left school but I felt like I was doing a science experiment the other day when I oxidized some silver myself. I was getting rather frustrated not being able to find all the supplies I need in the dark grey oxidized silver finish so I googled "oxidizing silver" and low and behold there was an article about how to do it. I thought that the silver needed to be heated to a high temperature but how wrong was I? (in fact i still don't know if heating to a hight temp works or not) All you need is a zip lock plastic bag and a couple of eggs.
Here's what I did.
1/ boiled two eggs for 15mins
2/ put silver in plastic bag making sure no metal is touching ( not sure why)
3/ put eggs in with the silver and closed the bag leaving a small space for the air to escape when you smash the eggs
4\ smash the eggs and close the bag
5/ leave for 30mins or till your silver has turned black, flipping the bag from time to time to get an even patina
Try it it's cool.
Though it's great i can't do it too often because i feel guilty about using and throwing away perfectly good food.
So the Olympics finishes this weekend and I'll be able to get back to a bit of normality. I have been obsessed and boy has it been a good games.
1 comment:
Huh, I never would've thought that eggs could oxidize silver. I'm all for natural alternatives to nasty chemicals.
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