Open AccessA method of depositing copper upon glass from aqueous solutions in a thin brilliantly reflecting film, and thus producing a copper mirror
Author(s) -
Frederick Daniel Chattaway
Publication year - 1908
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1908.0002
Subject(s) - copper , aqueous solution , metal , oxide , ammonia , materials science , thin film , inorganic chemistry , copper oxide , oxygen , chemical engineering , metallurgy , chemistry , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , engineering
Many organic substances which undergo oxidation easily are able to reduce various metallic oxides. The oxygen is removed with very different degrees of readiness and the property is in consequence often used as a means of recognising particular compounds or atomic groupings. Silver oxide is especially easily reduced, and if it is dissolved in an aqueous solution of ammonia the metal, by an appropriate agent, as Liebig first observed, may be obtained attached to the glass walls of the containing vessel as a brilliant reflecting film.