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2. Silvering - Wikipedia

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   In the early 10th century, the Persian scientist al-Razi described ways of silvering and gilding in a book on alchemy, [citation needed] but this was not done for the purpose of making mirrors. Tin-coated mirrors were first made in Europe in the 15th century. The thin tinfoil used to silver mirrors was known as "tain". [5]

3. List of largest optical telescopes in the 19th century

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   The technology for silver-coating glass mirrors, more reflective than speculum metal and not subject to tarnishing, was developed in the mid-19th century but was slow to be adopted. A major technology advance of this time was the development of photography, permitting astrophotography , and some telescopes were tailored to this application.

4. Mirror - Wikipedia

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   In X-ray telescopes, the X-rays reflect off a highly precise metal surface at almost grazing angles, and only a small fraction of the rays are reflected. [36] In flying relativistic mirrors conceived for X-ray lasers, the reflecting surface is a spherical shockwave (wake wave) created in a low-density plasma by a very intense laser-pulse, and ...

5. Antonio Fernando de Medrano - Wikipedia

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   The tools included a small copper brazier for heating water, valued at 50 reales, and a barber's box, covered in shell and silver, containing a silver-framed mirror, worth 150 reales. [1] A surgical case with silver-handled tools was assessed at 72 reales, while a lancet case featuring a fish-tail design with silver lancet handles was valued at ...

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7. Tollens' reagent - Wikipedia

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   Tollens' test for aldehyde: left side positive (silver mirror), right side negative Ball-and-stick model of the diamminesilver(I) complex. Tollens' reagent (chemical formula ()) is a chemical reagent used to distinguish between aldehydes and ketones along with some alpha-hydroxy ketones which can tautomerize into aldehydes.