kjavanb123
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All,
I tried this method to convert a kilogram of silver chloride to silver metal, and it failed. I am curios of there is any ways that lost silver can be recovered. Here is what I did with some photos,
1- the silver chloride as my starting materials, the copper nitrate completely removed prior to lye sugar method.
2- Purchased 2kg of lye pellets, added water twice volume of silver chloride, then added 2 kg pellets as stirred. Here what solution looked like,
3- Prepared a concentrated sugar solutij by adding 4kg of sugar to 3 liters of water, and qdded while stirred to the solution in step 2, here what solution looked like,
View attachment 1
4- Rinsed 3 times with water until solution became clear, but unlike when cementing with zinc, the dark gray residue were not as solid as I thought it wouod be,
I saved solution and residue, any helps would apperciate it.
Thanks
Kevin
I tried this method to convert a kilogram of silver chloride to silver metal, and it failed. I am curios of there is any ways that lost silver can be recovered. Here is what I did with some photos,
1- the silver chloride as my starting materials, the copper nitrate completely removed prior to lye sugar method.
2- Purchased 2kg of lye pellets, added water twice volume of silver chloride, then added 2 kg pellets as stirred. Here what solution looked like,
3- Prepared a concentrated sugar solutij by adding 4kg of sugar to 3 liters of water, and qdded while stirred to the solution in step 2, here what solution looked like,
View attachment 1
4- Rinsed 3 times with water until solution became clear, but unlike when cementing with zinc, the dark gray residue were not as solid as I thought it wouod be,
I saved solution and residue, any helps would apperciate it.
Thanks
Kevin