Silverlord
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- Jun 27, 2014
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Hi,
Today I use a silver nitric cell as a "brake down" cell. This is acid effective and works fine. I can run about 3 kg scap silver ( 80% to sterling) before the electrolyte is too contaminated ( it is a 3 liter cell).
Since I am lazy , I have lately thought of the possibillity to use a copper sulphate cell instead, using the copper refining process to separate copper from silver. Then the cell would "never" be contaminated. The copper goes to stainless steel cathode and silver stays as "slime" at the anode. The electrolyte would from the beginning be car battery sulphuric acid.
Silver slime would be harvested regurlarly and then be treated with a small amount of diluted nitric acid to further purify, before washing and melting down to anode for the refining cell.
Would this be possible? Can sterling silver be processed in a copper refining cell?
/Jan
Today I use a silver nitric cell as a "brake down" cell. This is acid effective and works fine. I can run about 3 kg scap silver ( 80% to sterling) before the electrolyte is too contaminated ( it is a 3 liter cell).
Since I am lazy , I have lately thought of the possibillity to use a copper sulphate cell instead, using the copper refining process to separate copper from silver. Then the cell would "never" be contaminated. The copper goes to stainless steel cathode and silver stays as "slime" at the anode. The electrolyte would from the beginning be car battery sulphuric acid.
Silver slime would be harvested regurlarly and then be treated with a small amount of diluted nitric acid to further purify, before washing and melting down to anode for the refining cell.
Would this be possible? Can sterling silver be processed in a copper refining cell?
/Jan