Gold will not precipitate.
Over the past few weeks I have successfully precipitated gold out of my HLC CL solution 3 times with SMB I processed small amounts of fingers these three times. I was confident that I had the process down, so went all in, and put in 150 finger sticks.
I soak them in HCL peroxide and filter out the gold foils, on this final attempt I had so many gold foils. 4-5x what I had in the previous three attempts, so is there gold in there? I have very little doubt. (I know I need to test the solution, but my test chemical will not be here for a few days)
Then I take those foils and resolve in the HCL/CL wait 24 hours and then precipitate...the past three times were text book, all reactions perfect, however with this third time I did things slightly different on this step....I started to heat the solution, because I thought I would just boil off the CL instead of wait 24hrs. After heating I noticed a foil that had not dissolved so I decided to add a little more CL to finish what I might have missed...and I thought I would just wait the 24hrs this time. So I waited 20 hours and decided to heat it for 10 min to make up for the four hours.
That is what I did different. When I went to precipitate, the solution went from the yellow/green color, to clear. It never turned brown. There is a very light dusting at the bottom of my beaker, but far far less than my practice rounds.
Has anyone ever had a solution lock up like that, and not drop your gold. What can be done to correct this?
Over the past few weeks I have successfully precipitated gold out of my HLC CL solution 3 times with SMB I processed small amounts of fingers these three times. I was confident that I had the process down, so went all in, and put in 150 finger sticks.
I soak them in HCL peroxide and filter out the gold foils, on this final attempt I had so many gold foils. 4-5x what I had in the previous three attempts, so is there gold in there? I have very little doubt. (I know I need to test the solution, but my test chemical will not be here for a few days)
Then I take those foils and resolve in the HCL/CL wait 24 hours and then precipitate...the past three times were text book, all reactions perfect, however with this third time I did things slightly different on this step....I started to heat the solution, because I thought I would just boil off the CL instead of wait 24hrs. After heating I noticed a foil that had not dissolved so I decided to add a little more CL to finish what I might have missed...and I thought I would just wait the 24hrs this time. So I waited 20 hours and decided to heat it for 10 min to make up for the four hours.
That is what I did different. When I went to precipitate, the solution went from the yellow/green color, to clear. It never turned brown. There is a very light dusting at the bottom of my beaker, but far far less than my practice rounds.
Has anyone ever had a solution lock up like that, and not drop your gold. What can be done to correct this?