Silver tree

Dianenbaum, m, arbor Dianae (silver tree). Dianilgelb, n. dianil yellow, diaphan, a. diaphanous. 

Silver Trees. In the eighteenth century, silver solutions were reduced in various ways to form the tree of Diana, which Erasmus Darwin described as follows ... 

Many oxidation/reduction reactions can be carried out in either of two ways that are physically quite different. In one, the reaction is performed by bringing the oxidant and the reductant into direct contact in a suitable container. In the second, the reaction is carried out in an electrochemical cell in which the reactants do not come in direct contact with one another. A marvelous example of direct contact is the famous silver tree experiment, in which a piece of copper is immersed in a silver nitrate. solution (Figure 18-1). Silver ions migrate to the metal and are reduced ... 

For an interesting illustration of this reaction, immerse a piece of copper in a solution of silver nitrate. The result is the deposition of silver on the copper in the form of a silver tree. See Figure 18-1 and color plate 9. 

Color plate 9 Reduction of silver by direct reaction with copper the silver tree (Section 18A-2, page 493). 

Silver Trees.— This is the name given to a curious and beautiful precipitation of silver, by means of... 

The alchemists were fond of producing the silver tree or arbor Diana by suspending some suitable metal in a solution of a soluble silver salt such as lunar caustic (silver nitrate) in much the same way as the better known lead tree is grown (p. 194). It is very beautiful to watch under the microscope the growth of silver on a piece of metallic copper. ... 

Zavarin and his associates have described detailed analyses of the terpenoid constituents of several species of fir. We can start with their study of A. amabilis collected throughout the range of the species (Zavarin et al., 1973). The Pacific silver fir occurs from southeastern Alaska to northern California at mid to higher elevations with a major contribution to the forest flora in coastal British Columbia, the Olympic Mountains (Washington), and in the Cascade Mountains in Washington and Oregon. It is represented in California in only a few sites in the north. Analysis of cortical terpenoids from over 100 trees from 15 sites revealed a comparatively... 

Abies alba Mill., the silver fir, is an important forest tree in Enrope. Its size—it is the tallest on the continent—and quality of wood have attracted attention since early... 

McLean, Adam. An experiment to grow a tree of silver. Hermetic J, no. 9 (Autumn 1980) 17-19. 

Silver is a normal trace constituent of many organisms (Smith and Carson 1977). In terrestrial plants, silver concentrations are usually less than 1.0 mg/kg ash weight (equivalent to less than 0.1 mg/kg DW) and are higher in trees, shrubs, and other plants near regions of silver mining. Seeds, nuts, and fruits usually contain higher silver concentrations than other plant parts (USEPA 1980). Silver accumulations in marine algae (max. 14.1 mg/kg DW) are due mainly to adsorption rather than uptake bioconcentration factors of 13,000 to 66,000 are not uncommon (USPHS 1990 Ratte 1999). 

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Perform the preliminary exercises and then project the Table Round. Take your place at your siege. Observe that you are clothed in a hooded robe of deep blue-violet, the indigo color of Akasha. The hood is a symbol of impersonality, the necessary attitude of mind for this work. There are silver sandals, the magical tool of Yesod, upon your feet, for you are walking the shining Paths of the Tree. This robe and these sandals should be your usual inner attire when working within the Tower. 

The utility of the electrohydrocyclization reaction to assemble natural products remains essentially untapped. It has, however, been used in the synthesis of the tricyclic sesquiterpene 1-sterpurene (3), the presumed causative agent of the so-called silver leaf disease that effects certain species of scrubs and trees in Western North America [15]. As is illustrated in Scheme 1 and in Table 2, the electrohydrocyclization reaction of bisenoate (5) was used to create the five-membered ring of the natural product. 

A relatively recent application to natural product synthesis stems from efforts to synthesize a sesquiterpene called 1-sterpurene 7 [17]. This substance is thought to be the causative agent of the so-called silver leaf disease that affects certain species of shrubs and trees. The strategy focuses on three key steps (a) electrochemical cyclization of the bis unsaturated ester 11 to produce the five-membered ring of 10, (b) a Ruhlman-modified acyloin condensation to... 

Leucippus, asked what would happen if you cut a block of silver in half, then cut the half in half, and just kept doing this.They thought that eventually you would get to the smallest particle of silver, which couldn t be cut anymore, and they called those particles atoms. Atom is Greek for something that cannot be divided.They also said that those atoms are always moving, and because they need space to move in, there must also be empty space, or a void. So far, so good. But according to Democritus and Leucippus, there was an infinite variety of atoms, so a tree was made of completely different stuff than air. 

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