For those who don't know, silver not kept in a dry, enclosed environment will tarnish over time. The biggest culprit is sulfur. There are trace amounts of sulfur in paper products, ink, eggs, onions, hairspray, shampoo, etc. While the tarnishing doesn't damage the silver and can be cleaned off, it does discolor the silver. In some cases, this can be a desirable effect.
In the bullion and coin world, there is a market for beautifully toned (tarnished) coins, bars, rounds, etc. These can sometimes sell for multiples over their spot value when not artificially induced with liver of sulfur. The color of toning can vary from brown, orange and red, all the way to blue, purple, green and black.
The 1 gram Geiger square pictured above toned from being in a cardboard box for a year or so, in with papers, air tites, gloves, etc. I decided to try and recreate this, this time deliberately, in my garage.
I put two 1980s Libertads, a 1921 Morgan, random year date Panda, 1oz Pyromet card and 1oz Dark Side "The Liberator" round in a cardboard box to be toned. I threw in a small leather pouch, polishing cloth, and some wadded up gun magazine ads. The idea is that each of these give off different levels of sulfur that will tone the coins.
They've been in there probably a year now. While they're coming along, they're not quite to the stage I'd like, where you can see some blue, green and purple.
The Panda has a nice, even bronze toned rim due to me keeping it in half of the air tite. Very cool!
The 1921 Morgan has hints of orange and yellow and some very faint blue toning starting.
One of the Libertads is toning much slower than everything else. The other, however, is developing a lot of orange.
They're far from where I'd like them to be, but this is for fun (and science!) more than anything else. We'll see what these look like in another 3-4 months. 😁
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Interesting concept. So far it seems that they've picked up a lot of yellow toning, especially the Libertad. I wonder why the Mexican round is progressing faster than the others?
I forgot to mention that the Libertad that is toning faster was in an air tite container with chopped up onions for about 8 hours before I put it in the box with the rest. There wasn't much toning from that part, but it likely sped up the process.
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How long do you intend to continue this experiment?
I plan to likely let it keep going another year unless I get the colors I want before then
My china cabinet seems to tone the silver I keep in it. The cabinet is mostly particle board and I can't explain where the hydrogen sulfide came from.
Most wood products and the chemicals used in particle board "off gas" and will tone silver. I had a silver goblet that would tone just sitting inside a solid oak cabinet.
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Looking forward to the results, hope you get some nice tones !BBH !PIMP
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That's very interesting to read. I had no idea this was a thing. It looks cool and I'm curious to find out how they look in a next update. I have to admit that I know little about chemistry (I assume it's part of that lol) and how certain things affect materials such as this... I bet my boyfriend would say, yeah of course it does lol. This little Noob is going to reblog it and follow your progress :)
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Yes, I noticed. Now I know it doesn't have to be staked. At least that adds another tipping possibility to the mix as the PIMP tips run out so fast, lol. Have a good weekend!
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I assumed the tipping would be more but didn't know about the Hive drip. I will add a bit more as they are cheap anyway. Thank you for the TIPs :)
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I tried to swap a bit of HBD into Hive but the market is not working for me. Not even when I switch nodes. Any idea if I can do that somewhere else? Swap HBD for Hive I mean?
I think I've done it for this post 🤞🏻
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With or without comments on those too? 😃
Those you don't need to make comments unless you want to
Is there a way to see how many I have done right and hence how many entries? 🫣
If you go to your profile, you should be able to see a history of which you've reblogged. I have you down for 4 entries right now.
That's nice. My blog has 6 reblogs as far as I can see. Did I miss commenting? Sorry for the noob questions 😅
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I missed a couple, so I got those added. Thanks! 🙂
Interesting experiment, very curious to see how they develop over the next months.
Thanks! It'll be interesting for sure! 😁