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!

  • jjagaimo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 个月前
    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 silver

    Probably an over estimate [of just the silver] due to the copper so probably more like 835-840g. [If just evaporating, the mass would be higher due to the lower density of the impurities like copper sulfate, so more around 845-850g. E.g. 5mL of copper sulfate would be 830g of silver and 18g copper sulfate = 848g]

    • LostXOR@fedia.ioOP
      1·
      1 个月前

      Unfortunately you weren’t the closest (ended up being 817g and some people undercut you) but I will give you the award for most sensible calculation.

  • LostXOR@fedia.ioOP
    1·
    1 个月前

    Thanks for your guesses, everyone! The final dry weight turned out to be 817g.

  • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    2 个月前

    830g.

    People already did the work for me , so I’m playing The Price Is Right is my methodology.