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De-Tarnishing Silver
« on: November 23, 2005, 08:06:25 pm »
Is there any special way of getting black tarnish off of silver? I don't have silver polish. Will just rubbing the stuff with a rag work?
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Re: De-Tarnishing Silver
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2005, 08:08:16 pm »
You can use automotive rubbing compound but it will not work as well.... well maybe if you used a mototrized buffer/polisher
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Re: De-Tarnishing Silver
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2005, 06:55:35 am »
pretty much any metal cleaner will do the job... Brasso etc

car cleaners will also do it.... things like T-Cut
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Re: De-Tarnishing Silver
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2005, 07:08:08 am »
Coca-Cola.
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Re: De-Tarnishing Silver
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2005, 07:10:15 am »
Baking soda and water.
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Re: De-Tarnishing Silver
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2005, 09:41:46 am »
Heat some water, add in some baking soda as a catylyst, and drop in a piece of aluminum foil.  Probably best done in a glass or ceramic pot.

Touch your silver to the aluminum foil and watch.

The tarnish (sivler sulfide) reacts with the aluminum, the aluminum having a greater affinity for the sulfur atoms, pulls it from the silver sulfide, leaving pure silver and aluminum sulfide.

Note:  The silver has to TOUCH the aluminum foil, theres a bit of current flowing there that completes the reaction.

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Re: De-Tarnishing Silver
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2005, 12:01:31 pm »
Wow, that does work
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Re: De-Tarnishing Silver
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2005, 12:03:10 pm »
Where else than at BYOAC could you find this out. Cool!
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Re: De-Tarnishing Silver
« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2005, 12:24:40 pm »
I should start asking more difficult questions.

Can someone please explain Grand Unification Theory in 10,000 words or more?
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Re: De-Tarnishing Silver
« Reply #9 on: November 24, 2005, 12:33:17 pm »
Quote from: USSEnterprise on November 24, 2005, 12:24:40 pm
I should start asking more difficult questions.

Can someone please explain Grand Unification Theory in 10,000 words or more?

You mean the process of trying to convince a woman to have sex with you?
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