Hello comrades
Just a quick question:
I often clean and dry glassware with pure acetone (and salt), because it's hygroscopic it removes water after regular cleaning,
and in addition it evaporates really quickly when the glassware is hold in running hot water for a few seconds.
I thought of just swirling the gold powder in a small amount of 100% acetone, and then dry the gold powder by heating the flask in hot water bath,
would this in any way contaminate the gold, or will any remnants disappear in the melting process?
I thought this would make it really easy to control the evaporation while swirling, so that no powder could get stuck, and would enable pouring the powder into cruicible immidiately?
Thanks in advance
Erik
Just a quick question:
I often clean and dry glassware with pure acetone (and salt), because it's hygroscopic it removes water after regular cleaning,
and in addition it evaporates really quickly when the glassware is hold in running hot water for a few seconds.
I thought of just swirling the gold powder in a small amount of 100% acetone, and then dry the gold powder by heating the flask in hot water bath,
would this in any way contaminate the gold, or will any remnants disappear in the melting process?
I thought this would make it really easy to control the evaporation while swirling, so that no powder could get stuck, and would enable pouring the powder into cruicible immidiately?
Thanks in advance
Erik