In class today, I had the chance to work in an independent experiment. For a while I've been wanting to try an independent experiment, but the rocket project had taken longer than Sophie and I had thought. So today I worked on an experiment that I've seen continuously online during my alchemy research. It's an experiment that alchemists, such as Isaac Newton, used to do and helped them believe that they could turn base metals into gold. The experiment starts with silver nitrate in a beaker and then placing a piece of copper inside. The silver in the silver nitrate then starts to grow on the copper, while the copper from the wire attaches itself to the nitrate. As the copper leaves the wire to create copper nitrate, the liquid starts to turn a blue color. Also, as the silver starts to form, it branches off into trident and branch like pieces that continue to grow outwards. Then you can take the grown silver and melt it down to create pure silver. While in class today, Andrew helped me start the process of growing the silver. I started with just putting the copper wire into the silver nitrate. Throughout the two class periods the silver started coating the copper completely, but hasn't started to really grow outwards a lot. By the end of third period, the silver already looked really cool. I'm going to let the experiment sit overnight to collect more silver, which I'm excited about because it should grow a lot more silver than the end of the class period. Tomorrow morning, I'll be able to collect and filter out the grown silver and will have copper nitrate. Hopefully, I'll be able to eventually melt down the silver too.