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Solutions of sodium carbonate and silver nitrate react to form solid silver carbonate and a solution of sodium nitrate. A solution containing 3.20 g of sodium carbonate is mixed with one containing 4.57 of silver nitrate.

1- How many grams of silver nitrate are present after the reaction is complete?

2- How many grams of sodium nitrate are present after the reaction is complete?

Na2CO3 + 2 AgNO3 = Ag2CO3 + 2 NaNO3

moles Na2CO3 = 3.20 g / 105.988 g/mol= 0.0302
moles AgNO3 = 4.57 g / 169.87 g/mol=0.0269 => Limiting reactant

moles Na2CO3 required = 0.0269/2 =0.0135
moles Na2CO3 in excess = 0.0302 - 0.0135 = 0.0167
mass Na2CO3 in excess = 0.0167 x 105.988 = 1.77 g

AgNO3 is not present after the reaction is complete

I know the US and canada do. What other countries have a silver bullion coin and what is it called.

Not interested in American silver eagles or Canadian silver maple leafs.

Several countries have a silver bullion coin and most of these are silver versions of their gold coins:

Australian silver Kangaroo & Kookaburra
Austrian silver Philharmonic
British silver Britannia
Chinese silver Panda
German silver coin
Gibraltar silver Dogs
Isle of Man silver Cats
Mexican silver Libertad
New Zealand silver Kiwi
Somalian silver Monkeys
Zambian silver Elephant

There are also silver rounds which are privately minted 1 troy ounce pure silver coins with hundreds of different designs, and they can be found almost anywhere. Do an eBay search. I hope that helps.

An 1801 silver certificate dollar bill, still in fair condition, would be worth how much money right now?
Also the value of a 1964 half dollar coin in very good condition is worth how much money?

Silver Certificates were not made until 1878, so either your certificate is a fake, or you are reading the date wrong. that is if the Certificate is US based. If it is foreign, I don’t know. But according to one of my source sites, an 1899 silver certificate is worth up to $250, depending on condition.

My six year old child had a silver amalgam filling, two years ago, suddenly I noticed it a few days back that the filled material missing. I took the child to a dentist and asked. The dentist told that the filling has come out. I am worried if it is swallowed by my child, what are the consequences. The dentist told me not to worry. But i am worried whether the silver amalgam if swallowed would result in mercury poisoning. What to do now.

Technically, it’s a good thing the amalgam is out of the child’s mouth. Yes, he or she will get some mercury poisoning from the swallowed tooth, but it should pass out of the body within a day or two. Any mercury is bad, but be glad the amalgam is on it’s way out of the body.

You need to find a dentist that does not put amalgam fillings in people. Make sure you insist on bonded ceramic and they use a dental laser to sanitize. Many children’s dentists are now using a water laser to do the drilling because there is no pain from that. The aniline chemicals such as Lidocaine, Carbocaine, Procaine, etc. are all AGGRESSIVELY CARCINOGENIC and are cumulative.

Mercury is NOT tightly bound in amalgam fillings. It is liquid mercury and leaches out of the fillings for decades. Here are two web sites for you to view. This should help you understand the problem with amalgam fillings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ylnQ-T7oiA

http://movies.commons.ucalgary.ca/mercury/

good luck to you

Silver chloride, often used in silver plating, contains 75.27% Ag.

Calculate the mass of silver chloride required to plate 165 mg of pure silver?

use molar masses:
0.165 grams Ag @ (143.32 g/mol AgCl) / (107.9 g/mol Ag) =
0.219 g AgCl would be required

or

using a ratio of % ’s
0.165 g Ag @ (100 % AgCl) / (75.27% Ag) =
0.219 g of AgCl would be required

in both ways,
your answer is
219 mg of AgCl

Purchased silver flatware and holloware (mostly dented) for the purpose of reselling to a refinery as scrap silver to make a profit.

Most of the pieces were purchased 1-2 years ago; a few within the last year. However, it was refined in one batch with one payout.

Would that profit be treated as ordinary income or capital gain? What are the tax rates?

If capital gain, how would I separate the profit (payout minus basis) into long term and short term gain since it was refined in one big batch with one payout?

How much money are we talking here? Is this a profitable endeavor

Capital gain. the items you purchased more than a year before selllng are long term. and those that you bought less than a year before selling are short term.
you will enter your purchase date and $ paid for it. Then you enter sales date, which will be same for all entries since you sold all at one time. Do you know the weights of each purchase? You would prorate the total price recieved in the sale by the % of weight that each purchase represents.

if i were to find silver or gold coins on the beach(US), would i get to keep it? or how much do i have to pay for it? thx!
i was wondering if i found gold or silver (like spanish coins) on the beach (US) would i get to keep it? how much would i have to pay in taxes?

My understanding is that the law in most jurisdictions for a thing like that (which isn’t like a purse or some object that clearly belongs to someone else) is that the person who finds it gets to keep it. So congratulations! Mind if I offer some advice. Take the gold and sell it to an online store that specializes in buying gold for fair prices. I suggest http://www.refinity.com/

I have a silver soap dish from one of my grandparents that I put a bar of soap in. The soap is gone now and it left the bottom of the container various shades of pink, blue, and green. What do I use to clean it out?

If there are pink and blue green stains this could indicate that the dish is plated copper. The chemicals in the soap have reacted with the metal(s) to cause corrosion. Try using a commercial silver cleaner with a soft rag. It may take some elbow grease and is likely that it will still have some staining but you can probably find some improvement this way.

And how much is silver and how much is gold. And can you play online with silver or can you only download stuff? And can you talk to your friends on silver?

A silver membership can be used for downloading, talking to friends, sending messages, and pretty much anything to deal with the marketplace.

A gold membership can be used for anything, including online play, having xbox live parties so you can talk to all of your friends at once (up to 8 people at once).

Xbox live silver is free and xbox live gold will cost you a minimum of $50 per year!

I need to get fillings in a few of my teeth, 3 bottom molars and 2 top molars, and I can’t afford to get white ones so they’ll have to be silver.

I just wondered how noticable they are on a daily basis, like when you’re laughing etc, is it really obvious? And what do you think if you see people with quite a lot of fillings? Do you think it’s a bad thing?

Silver fillings are quite noticeable. It does not look that bad though, since it would be at the back of you mouth. The main concern would be to have your teeth fixed to prevent further decay.

Another point of concern would be the safety of silver fillings. I read somewhere that it could be bad for your health since it can contain small quantities of mercury.

I see people with lots of fillings but I don’t think it looks bad. If you can’t afford the white fillings, go for the silver ones for now and when you’ve saved enough money, you can have them changed later on. You can’t wait and save money now, coz your teeth needs to be fixed as soon as possible.