Improve the look of my silver

[Wilton David]

Hello everyone, greetings from Ecuador, my English is not good and I use a translator to learn more about this forum, my question is how can I make my silver cleaner? I have around 800 grams and I mixed it with nitric acid which has a blue color and my question is what can I do to make it come out better quality, thank you very much for your comments.

The method I use is to add salt (sodium chloride), stir well with a wooden tube and wait for it to settle, pour out the acid and I am left with a white material that is like cheese, then I add floor shavings that replace the steel or aluminum nails and I proceed to dry and melt in fire, but I would like to improve the quality of my silver, thank you for your time.

 

[Yggdrasil]

Hello everyone, greetings from Ecuador, my English is not good and I use a translator to learn more about this forum, my question is how can I make my silver cleaner? I have around 800 grams and I mixed it with nitric acid which has a blue color and my question is what can I do to make it come out better quality, thank you very much for your comments.

The method I use is to add salt (sodium chloride), stir well with a wooden tube and wait for it to settle, pour out the acid and I am left with a white material that is like cheese, then I add floor shavings that replace the steel or aluminum nails and I proceed to dry and melt in fire, but I would like to improve the quality of my silver, thank you for your time.

To improve quality use pure Zinc, Aluminum or Iron.
Wash well when you are done converting it.
What kind of acid do you use?

Edit for thick fingers

 

[Yggdrasil]

Hello everyone, greetings from Ecuador, my English is not good and I use a translator to learn more about this forum, my question is how can I make my silver cleaner? I have around 800 grams and I mixed it with nitric acid which has a blue color and my question is what can I do to make it come out better quality, thank you very much for your comments.

The method I use is to add salt (sodium chloride), stir well with a wooden tube and wait for it to settle, pour out the acid and I am left with a white material that is like cheese, then I add floor shavings that replace the steel or aluminum nails and I proceed to dry and melt in fire, but I would like to improve the quality of my silver, thank you for your time.

Welcome to us by the way

 

[Master Nater]

Setting up and running a Silver cell in a stainless steel bowl

 

[Yggdrasil]

Setting up and running a Silver cell in a stainless steel bowl

That will be the next step.
When he has had a good clean conversion from Silver Chloride.
Probably would have been better to cement on Copper in stead of going via Silver Chloride.

Edit. Added missing word

 

[Marcel]

You could refine it using a copper electrolytic cell if there's still a decent amount of copper in your silver. (Is it reddish? Show the button!)

 

[Wilton David]

Ése será el siguiente paso.
Cuando haya tenido una buena conversión limpia de Cloruro de Plata.
Probablemente hubiera sido mejor cementar sobre cobre en lugar de utilizar cloruro de plata.

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[Wilton David]

Para mejorar la calidad utilice Zinc, Aluminio o Hierro puros.
Lávelo bien cuando haya terminado de convertirlo.
¿Qué tipo de ácido utilizas?

Edición para dedos grues

To improve quality use pure Zinc, Aluminum or Iron.
Wash well when you are done converting it.
What kind of acid do you use?

Edit for thick fingers

Nitric acid 68%
Thank you for taking the time to answer me.
What type of zinc are you referring to? Can you attach an image?

 

[Wilton David]

That will be the next step.
When he has had a good clean conversion from Silver Chloride.
Probably would have been better to cement on Copper in stead of going via Silver Chloride.

I really appreciate your time and information

I know that it is better with silver chloride but where I live there is not much information and the method used is Merrill Crowe.
After putting and melting in the clay crucible, the material comes out in bars and we shot blast it and then we add nitric acid
and from there the silver comes out.


Edited quote to actually quote, and moved answer out of quote.

 

[Wilton David]

That will be the next step.
When he has had a good clean conversion from Silver Chloride.
Probably would have been better to cement on Copper in stead of going via Silver Chloride.

Edit. Added missing word

I am very grateful for your advice

 

[Yggdrasil]

Nitric acid 68%
Thank you for taking the time to answer me.
What type of zinc are you referring to? Can you attach an image?

Pure Zinc metal, but it is much better to use Copper since it will cement the Silver and precious metals only.
Zinc will drop all, even the base metals.

 

[Yggdrasil]

I really appreciate your time and information

I know that it is better with silver chloride but where I live there is not much information and the method used is Merrill Crowe.
After putting and melting in the clay crucible, the material comes out in bars and we shot blast it and then we add nitric acid
and from there the silver comes out.


Edited quote to actually quote, and moved answer out of quote.

Please look over your posts before you post them.

When you have your Silver dissolved in Nitric you will get it out with a lot less waste and processing if you just cement it directly on Copper.
After a proper washing you can then melt it and make bars or shots at 99 to 999 pure Silver depending on your skill.