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Snake Oil

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The purpose of this activity is to use electrochemistry techniques to generate colloidal silver and then utilize the colloidal silver to determine if the growth of the bacteria Saccharomyces cerevisiae or Escherichia coli can be inhibited.

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Teacher Preparation Guide

Student Guide 1 with answers

Student Guide 2 with answers

ColloidalSilver_SnakeOil_SG.pdf

ColloidalSilver_Ag_Yeast_SG.pdf

Next Generation Science Standards for this lesson

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