Can anyone identify what is in my crucible Occured after melting cement silver

[FrugalRefiner]

Pretty much colorless.

Dave

Thought silver chloride is a white precipitate and colorless would be silver nitrate in solution?

My answer was regarding the color of the solution if silver chloride was dissolved in ammonia. You are correct that silver chloride forms a white precipitate, but if dissolved in ammonia, the solution is relatively colorless.

Dave

 

[jurekk12]

Thought silver chloride is a white precipitate and colorless would be silver nitrate in solution?

I read not long ago, think in this very forum maybe, that they added salt to turn the silver to chloride and get pure gold, ofcourse it probably wasn't 99.9 but still.

Yes - salt can still be used advantageously .
best regards
jurek

 

[jurekk12]

For the millennia Gold has been collected and refined there must have been many techniques that has been used.
Most of them discarded through times and the ones we use now is the newest and the ones that have proved usable.
The ability to purify the Gold has increased through times as well.
In the old times it took relatively much more effort to get the Gold pure.

They had problems with sulfur for a long time .
But some techniques can be used successfullystill be used today.
best regards
jurek

 

[jurekk12]

Hi
This silver was with lead and without antimony .
best regards
jurek

 

[Yggdrasil]

Hi
This silver was with lead and without antimony .
best regards
jurek

I'm struggling to see what you are commenting.
Can you please use the reply to button?
Unless you are commenting on the image in the first post that is.

 

[jurekk12]

Hi
99,9 - You'd be surprised .
They could do a lot .
best regards
jurek

 

[jurekk12]

I'm struggling to see what you are commenting.
Can you please use the reply to button?
Unless you are commenting on the image in the first post that is.

Hi
This photo .
best regards
jurek

 

[Alondro]

I always thought a blue solution when ammonia was added indicated Silver Chloride - then again I'm no expert on Silver treatment so feel free to slap me if I am wrong.

Silver chloride is fluffy white precipitate.

 

[Yggdrasil]

Silver chloride is fluffy white precipitate.

Yes but, but it dissolves in Ammonia.