Alabama938
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It seems that silver is generally considered a carrier metal for platinum in palladium, does it also carry nickel?
I worked my way through almost a troy ounce worth of gold from computer parts and was considering a few runs of scrap karat gold jewelry and also some Goldfilled material (pretty sure I got ripped off and got a bag of watch bands). I planned everything so that when I ran out of nitric acid I would process all my waste and “hit the reset button.”
So my real question is what is the best metal for inquarting gold? Using sterling silver seems to be killing two birds with one stone, but you also need the real estate to cement the silver, and also some sort of secondary refining ie THUM cell. I would love to build one of these but that’s going to burn even more of my precious nitric acid to make the electrolyte.
Can I just use copper wire and skip the whole stock pot step and crash the copper out of solution with something to make a waste easier? Is 14 karat yellow gold jewelry generally silver containing? It seems like on the gold triangle that it wouldn’t be possible without a significant amount of copper? Appreciate any comments in advance.
Roll Tide
I worked my way through almost a troy ounce worth of gold from computer parts and was considering a few runs of scrap karat gold jewelry and also some Goldfilled material (pretty sure I got ripped off and got a bag of watch bands). I planned everything so that when I ran out of nitric acid I would process all my waste and “hit the reset button.”
So my real question is what is the best metal for inquarting gold? Using sterling silver seems to be killing two birds with one stone, but you also need the real estate to cement the silver, and also some sort of secondary refining ie THUM cell. I would love to build one of these but that’s going to burn even more of my precious nitric acid to make the electrolyte.
Can I just use copper wire and skip the whole stock pot step and crash the copper out of solution with something to make a waste easier? Is 14 karat yellow gold jewelry generally silver containing? It seems like on the gold triangle that it wouldn’t be possible without a significant amount of copper? Appreciate any comments in advance.
Roll Tide