solar seeker
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OK this is my story I made aqua regia using the sodium nitrate/meuratic acid method and proceeded to dissolve about a pound of gold plated pins fingers and chips while capturing the fumes in several 1 gallon glass jars and reacting that with water to reclaim the valuable nitric acid. After the metal was dissolved I filtered the solution and boiled it to remove the remaining traces of nitric acid ,which was paltry when compared to the fumes from the original mixture. After I was done boiling the aqua regia and removed it from the heat it continued to react with itself causing it to boil over briefly. After that I had found out that I bought sodium bisulfATE instead of sodium bisulfITE which was a double let down because I had originally intended to buy sodium metabisulfate in order to make sulphuric acid with. I spent a short time trying to find some evidence that this product would work and found that the chemical I had has one more oxygen than the sulfite variety. So in spite of various websites stating that it wouldn't work I decided to try it any way. Since it didn't do anything except fizz briefly I figured I had ruined my mixture so I added some pieces of aluminium to the mix in order to precipitate out all metals in the solution. The solution is outside and likely quite warm and still fizzing as I type this. :|
Any help would be quite appreciated
Any help would be quite appreciated