Close Up shot of Salt Crystals

[kane333]

This is the glass rod I used to stir in the SMB on my First time using AP method topic. The pictures aren't first quality because I used my cell phone camera with a 30x jewelers loupe in front of the camera to get a good close-up. You can clearly see some sort of salt? crystals had formed when the SMB was added to the AuCL₃. When I wash my powder in boiling water and HCL, will this salt formation dissolve or is there another step I'd need to take to get rid of salts?

 

[kkmonte]

Yea, the HCL is what should dissolve any left over base metals and the water boils should dissolve any salts. I actually alternate HCL and H20, not sure if that hurts/helps anything..