scrapparts
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Hello members,
I have some silver solution that is Nitric Acid and water. The source material is .999 silver rounds.
I have dropped my silver before with the copper and it works fine, with the exception of having to treat the powder with HCL to get rid of the copper. Nevertheless, I don't have any problems doing that way. The issue I have is that I have approximately 2 gal jugs with my solution in it and I don't have much copper to drop all my silver in minutes, vs days.
My point is that I want to drop all of my silver immediately instead of having to wait days, or add large copper bars to make it all drop faster... So, I'm thinking about all the ways I know the silver can be dropped out of solution, but I have only tried the copper.
Which would be faster....
1. Add large amounts of copper.
2. Add lye and corn syrup
3. Add table salt.
4. HCL (I only have Muriatic Acid)
I was reading and learning about no#'s 2 and 3, but I still get kinda confused as to if you can use table salt to drop the silver from solution, why aren't people doing that way as a standard way, eliminating the cost for the copper for the cost of some table salt?
If the table salt would work, that would seem like it would be the fastest way to drop the silver. Just my opinion.
I've seen the videos and watched extensively on many methods to drop silver out of solution, but most of the videos I've seen, the solution was either greenish or blueish green to blue and the silver was dropped using method no# 2.
I recently saw a video where HCL was poured into the beaker with the silver nitrate in it and instantly the solution turned milk white and formed a foam-like sponge in a matter of seconds, and all the silver was dropped out of solution. The problem with that one for me is that I don't have any HCL. I could do a 5ml or so test to see if it would work or not.
Although I never performed any of the methods mentioned above except no#1, I am confident in doing any one of them without having to figure out the next steps.
But my biggest question is.... Can I use table salt, or even sea salt and drop my silver from solution in one day, ready to melt?
I only wish I had more copper, and more vessels to put my silver in, then I could see me getting all my silver dropped in one day, but right now with what I have, it'll be days before all my silver can be dropped out of solution.... plus I am going to need more copper to do it that way too.
Thanks
scrapparts
I have some silver solution that is Nitric Acid and water. The source material is .999 silver rounds.
I have dropped my silver before with the copper and it works fine, with the exception of having to treat the powder with HCL to get rid of the copper. Nevertheless, I don't have any problems doing that way. The issue I have is that I have approximately 2 gal jugs with my solution in it and I don't have much copper to drop all my silver in minutes, vs days.
My point is that I want to drop all of my silver immediately instead of having to wait days, or add large copper bars to make it all drop faster... So, I'm thinking about all the ways I know the silver can be dropped out of solution, but I have only tried the copper.
Which would be faster....
1. Add large amounts of copper.
2. Add lye and corn syrup
3. Add table salt.
4. HCL (I only have Muriatic Acid)
I was reading and learning about no#'s 2 and 3, but I still get kinda confused as to if you can use table salt to drop the silver from solution, why aren't people doing that way as a standard way, eliminating the cost for the copper for the cost of some table salt?
If the table salt would work, that would seem like it would be the fastest way to drop the silver. Just my opinion.
I've seen the videos and watched extensively on many methods to drop silver out of solution, but most of the videos I've seen, the solution was either greenish or blueish green to blue and the silver was dropped using method no# 2.
I recently saw a video where HCL was poured into the beaker with the silver nitrate in it and instantly the solution turned milk white and formed a foam-like sponge in a matter of seconds, and all the silver was dropped out of solution. The problem with that one for me is that I don't have any HCL. I could do a 5ml or so test to see if it would work or not.
Although I never performed any of the methods mentioned above except no#1, I am confident in doing any one of them without having to figure out the next steps.
But my biggest question is.... Can I use table salt, or even sea salt and drop my silver from solution in one day, ready to melt?
I only wish I had more copper, and more vessels to put my silver in, then I could see me getting all my silver dropped in one day, but right now with what I have, it'll be days before all my silver can be dropped out of solution.... plus I am going to need more copper to do it that way too.
Thanks
scrapparts