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!

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    17 hours ago

    I always miss something

    Yes, in the very last line, it made no sense anymore (and I bet you felt it in your gut).

    It should not be:

    1464g (total) - 516g (water) = 948g silver powder.

    but rather:

    1214g (silver slurry) - 516g (water in slurry) = 698g silver powder.

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      15 hours ago

      Damnit. I edited with that correction, but deleted the edit, cause who the fuck knows why. Was kind of in a rush at the time, and didn’t think I would have been silly enough to miss the 250g.

      Good cach and yeah, I felt it.