About the Mirror Making Process

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Tip 1 - Make Glass Mirrors With Silver Nitrate, Sugar, Ammonia and Sodium Hydroxide

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Celso Gatti | permalink

How to make a mirror silvering solution from silver nitrate, ammonia and sugar. Glass surfaces can be given coatings of silver that make them into ...

For further reading: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Glass-Mirrors-With-Silver-Nitrate-Sugar-Am/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - How to Make Mirrors by Silvering Glass

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Will O Wisp | permalink

Modern mirrors are made by depositing aluminum. But back in the Victorian era aluminum wasn't available and so they made their mirrors using silver metal. Using silver nitrate (available online, or can be made in another wikiHow) you can...
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For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Mirrors-by-Silvering-Glass ^[2]