How to melt silver chloride
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Juan Manuel Arcos Frank
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Karo syrup and cane´s sugar are different sugars,the first one is a reducer sugar(I mean,works for Ag2O reduction to metallic silver),cane´s sugar is a non reducer sugar so it can not reduce Ag2O to metallic silver.
Here is a trick,you know,just between PM refiners:
Follow Karo´s syrup process until you have the black mud of Ag2O with NaOH solution,add cane´s sugar(previously dissolved in tap water) and mix vigorously until all the solution bolis(you must have a big enough vessel because reaction is pretty violent,like a volcanos´s eruption) and you will get pure silver.
Cane´s sugar reacts with NaOH to form a reducer sugar.I do not know wich one it is but I use cane´s sugar instead of Karo syrup.
Kindest regards.
Manuel
Here is a trick,you know,just between PM refiners:
Follow Karo´s syrup process until you have the black mud of Ag2O with NaOH solution,add cane´s sugar(previously dissolved in tap water) and mix vigorously until all the solution bolis(you must have a big enough vessel because reaction is pretty violent,like a volcanos´s eruption) and you will get pure silver.
Cane´s sugar reacts with NaOH to form a reducer sugar.I do not know wich one it is but I use cane´s sugar instead of Karo syrup.
Kindest regards.
Manuel
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Whytheoceanchurns
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Would I be able to use a magnetic stirring hotplate to increase the speed of the original meltdown with the nitric acid??
Welcome to us.
Are you referring to dissolving not melting?
Whytheoceanchurns
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Correction Dissolving
Stirring will always help if it is possible.
Depending on your material it may not always be possible.
what are you dissolving.
Doesn't melting Silver Chloride just make a big mess... with a bunch of contaminated material?
not understanding why you would do this
Whytheoceanchurns
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I am dissolving silverplated items like platters old tea kettles some old electrical components after I clean them and cut them into manageable pieces. Because these items contains other base metals I don't know if the magnetic spinner would mess with them or cause damage?
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It is not economical to dissolve plated Silver. Too expensive by chemicals and too expensive to treat the waste.
Only feasible way is water cell.
So drop the spinner and acids.
Whytheoceanchurns
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I do that process too but I get tired of scrubbing and making sure all the silver is off. On top of this I have found a couple time there was more then silver that come off in the water cell unless I am doing it wrong which is likely. Could you describe your process to clarify.
I have not done it, but there are several threads regarding the same.
Search the forum and read them.
You scrub nothing with the water cell. The plating crumbles and fall off, then you process the powder.
Edit for spelling.
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Perhaps I am a little confused. But it would seem to me, that dissolving complete pieces of silver plated ware. Is a huge waste of chemicals.
Why not sand blast the plating off. Wash blasting media with HCL to remove the base metals and rinse with water. Then use nitric to dissolve the powdered silver.
That's what I plan to do with some plated ware I recently acquired.
I will be blasting inside a cabinet made from an Old plastic dishwasher. And will have a water mister inside to eliminate dust.
So I won't lose values to a dust collector.
Edited to make clear that it is the "blasting media" is what is to be washed with the acids. And correct spelling errors. Phone often changes words before it submits a posting.
Boy do I hate auto correct.
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