I’ll be drying the silver out and weighing it sometime in the next couple days. Closest guess when I do gets bragging rights! (And absolutely nothing else)
The scale was zeroed with the beaker empty, and it contains only water and silver (and a trace amount of copper nitrate). If you have a strategy behind your guess, please do share it!
Density of silver: 10.49g/mL Density of water: 1g/mL Total mass: 1464g Total volume: 700mL x = volume of silver, mL y = volume of water, mL 10.49x + 1y = 1464 x+y = 700 9.49x=764 x=80.5058mL of silver 10.49x = 10.49 × 80.5058 = 844.51g of silverProbably an over estimate due to the copper so probably more like 835-840g.
Damn, you were faster than I was, I was just calculating the same thing. All I have left is to assume that they won’t be able to fully dry the silver and guess a bit higher… 850g.
No more than 1.4 kgs!
250ml solution (mostly water on top) = 250g
700g (if 700ml water) - 250g = 450ml silver slurry
450ml silver powder weight (dry) = 1800g
1464g (total) - 250g (excess water) = 1214g
450ml slurry = 1214g slurry
1800g (dry silver) - 1214g (silver slurry) = 516g (516ml water in slurry)
1464g (total) - 516g (water) = 948g silver powder.
I always miss something obviously stupid when doing math in public. However, it sounds suspiciously close to a 1kg starting weight of silver though.
Fuck it, 1 kg exactly. I will accept the silver as my reward.
Damn, you were faster than me.
Pew pew
1026g. Based on the amount of visible water volume, and a guess of more above that subtracted from the total weight.
1102g - took a stab at the density of micron-sized silver powder, the volume, then arbitrarily knocked off 30% for the saturation in water 🤷
844.4 grams of silver.
I’m gonna bid $1, Bob.
Similar method to previous poster but I’m guessing 979g.
30g, not educated. Just a guess.
31g Bob!
Under cutting, fucker! You’re not allowed at Price is Right game night…/jk
It’s okay, you’re both off by at least an order of magnitude anyways. :)
29 g!
Danm it, you beat me…
Is that elemental silver or some fancy compound?
Just elemental silver.
980g, no calculations, just riding off the coattails of people who did more work than me.
How much? Weight or volume?I assume you mean weight… Give me a sec and I’ll take a guess.
Yeah I meant mass, but that’s a fair question. I updated the title.
Nah, it was kind of a dumb question actually. The volume isn’t going to change much unless you melt it down. Thanks though!
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