I have my late grandpa’s silver spoon attached to my fridge with a neodymium magnet. What kind of chemical reaction causes that discolouration?

  • baahb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Pictures of tungsten tarnishing aren’t helpful when op is talking about silver. Stating “thank you, that’s the general idea yes, but I was trying to ask more specifically” isn’t an attack on you. You don’t need to defend yourself.

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        20 hours ago

        That is a surprisingly not blue tarnish, if its supposed to explain what OP is showing us, if it makes a point, please help me comprehend.

        I do see that the light has mostly obscured a small band of blue so maybe its at a really neat phase of tarnish, but that’s speculation and this photo provides no evidence that is actually the case. Either way, I really dont think the tarnish article goes far to actually explain the blue aside from describing the mechanism.

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            8 hours ago

            Reading comprehension… What even is it?

            I do see that the light has mostly obscured a small band of blue so maybe its at a really neat phase of tarnish, but that’s speculation and this photo provides no evidence that is actually the case. Either way, I really dont think the tarnish article goes far to actually explain the blue aside from describing the mechanism.

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              5 hours ago

              You sandwiched your admission that the photo showed blue tarnish on silver between a claim that the photo didn’t show blue and the false claim that the OP specifically asked why blue in particular.

              The photo is proof that silver can tarnish to blue.