OK refiners and chemist's.. I've got another one. So far, anytime I've posted, someone or multiple someone's have been able to peg it right on and nudge me in the right direction. So I literally owe all my knowledge and limited success y to u guys. There's absolutely no way a guy like me could ever dare to take on such a hobby without the support of you guys.. OK, pleasantries out of the way...
I've been at this for about a year now and have learned a couple of key processes that I can manage, so I stick to those now days. But when I first started, I was one of those who figured he could simply watch a coue of YouTube videos containing incomplete info, and just hit the ground running. I was wrong. Ill shorten it a bit..
Fast forward to about a week ago, I'm cleaning out my chemical cabinet just to clear done dust and empty jugs, and I come across a spaghetti sauce jar with a strange solution in it. Crystal Clear liquid like water on top, and an orange/ brown sludge at the bottom. I've began washing it. I decanted the liquid on top and used distilled water to fill the flask back up (switched containers), and I plan to do this till I can see more of what it might me.. Or at least I HAD planned that. The thought occurred that I neededvto turn to you guys so I ddnt mess it up again.. Whatever it is..
So here's what we know..
1. Spaghetti sauce jars were being used about the time I started to figure some things out. I was screwing up less, but when I did, you guys would tell me to stop and learn.. And come back to it I think this is one of those solutions.
2. I've only ever attempted hold and silver recovery. In those days I was processing vintage computer scrap. Ie processors, ram sticks, ic chips, and such.. I THINK this possibly came from ic chips from telecom equipment. I posted a Pic of one and asked what it was once. I'll dig thru the archives so I can repost the board. But I had tons of them and didn't seem to be getting any hold from them so I moved on.
3. My processes were the standard few. Either ap then AR or Hcl and bleach.. Only smb to precipitate. I've lost tons of solutions after the smb step due to ignorance. I'm not sure if this one made it to the smb step, but I would guess it did? As that's when I would usually give up.. Altho there's no odor coming from it. For ics and bgas I used incineration, then panned the material down, and then ap for the concentrate.
4. As of now, when I filled the flask with water after decanting the old liquid, I noticed a familiar sight. I'll try my best to explain it do bare with me.. You know when you're recovering silver from circuit breakers using the sugar/lye method? On the home stretch, after a couple of washes to remove the sugar and lye, when you go to fill the container with more water for another wash, you can begin to see the elemental silver settling at the bottom. The particles look small, Gray and round-ish, and you can distinguish each particle as they pile on top of each other against the glass, from the liquid they are in. The particles in my mystery solution look just like these silver particles, only orange / brown.
I hope I have described this well enough and provided enough info, albeit incomplete, to figure out what it is. I was planning on decanting, washing, melting just to see what it turned out to be, but If it happens to be something good that might require another step, then I guess I'll just go ahead and stop again til I hear something.
Thanks everyone.
I've been at this for about a year now and have learned a couple of key processes that I can manage, so I stick to those now days. But when I first started, I was one of those who figured he could simply watch a coue of YouTube videos containing incomplete info, and just hit the ground running. I was wrong. Ill shorten it a bit..
Fast forward to about a week ago, I'm cleaning out my chemical cabinet just to clear done dust and empty jugs, and I come across a spaghetti sauce jar with a strange solution in it. Crystal Clear liquid like water on top, and an orange/ brown sludge at the bottom. I've began washing it. I decanted the liquid on top and used distilled water to fill the flask back up (switched containers), and I plan to do this till I can see more of what it might me.. Or at least I HAD planned that. The thought occurred that I neededvto turn to you guys so I ddnt mess it up again.. Whatever it is..
So here's what we know..
1. Spaghetti sauce jars were being used about the time I started to figure some things out. I was screwing up less, but when I did, you guys would tell me to stop and learn.. And come back to it I think this is one of those solutions.
2. I've only ever attempted hold and silver recovery. In those days I was processing vintage computer scrap. Ie processors, ram sticks, ic chips, and such.. I THINK this possibly came from ic chips from telecom equipment. I posted a Pic of one and asked what it was once. I'll dig thru the archives so I can repost the board. But I had tons of them and didn't seem to be getting any hold from them so I moved on.
3. My processes were the standard few. Either ap then AR or Hcl and bleach.. Only smb to precipitate. I've lost tons of solutions after the smb step due to ignorance. I'm not sure if this one made it to the smb step, but I would guess it did? As that's when I would usually give up.. Altho there's no odor coming from it. For ics and bgas I used incineration, then panned the material down, and then ap for the concentrate.
4. As of now, when I filled the flask with water after decanting the old liquid, I noticed a familiar sight. I'll try my best to explain it do bare with me.. You know when you're recovering silver from circuit breakers using the sugar/lye method? On the home stretch, after a couple of washes to remove the sugar and lye, when you go to fill the container with more water for another wash, you can begin to see the elemental silver settling at the bottom. The particles look small, Gray and round-ish, and you can distinguish each particle as they pile on top of each other against the glass, from the liquid they are in. The particles in my mystery solution look just like these silver particles, only orange / brown.
I hope I have described this well enough and provided enough info, albeit incomplete, to figure out what it is. I was planning on decanting, washing, melting just to see what it turned out to be, but If it happens to be something good that might require another step, then I guess I'll just go ahead and stop again til I hear something.
Thanks everyone.