Processed a little batch of old high power soviet transistors with crystal, placed on gold plated disk inside the transistor. Here you see the transistor after electrolysis to weaken its corpus for easy opening. Gold plated disks are welded to the copper corpus, and could be easily removed by heating. Here you see the disk after AR treatment for a long time. I dont know the material of the disk itself, it is reacting very slowly, have a quite high specific gravity, and is very stiff. Some chemists tell me this could me molybdenum.
The initial solution is yellow to orange, there is a lot of white precipitate (I think, this is welding material).
I tested AR solution of several these gold plated disks with SnCl2, you can see interesting colors.
Immediatly after SnCl2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0EGErkVBs
After 2 minutes, added one more SnCl2 drop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1AyAdqhLxE
After 5 minutes, one more drop of SnCl2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOk_NrssVd0
After 10 minutes, rinsed with water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYE3FT4sCiY
You definitely see purple color, but there is some remaining quite dark blue at the corner. If I hadnt rinsed the paper, it would be very difficult to detect purple.
What do you think about all this?
The initial solution is yellow to orange, there is a lot of white precipitate (I think, this is welding material).
I tested AR solution of several these gold plated disks with SnCl2, you can see interesting colors.
Immediatly after SnCl2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0EGErkVBs
After 2 minutes, added one more SnCl2 drop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1AyAdqhLxE
After 5 minutes, one more drop of SnCl2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOk_NrssVd0
After 10 minutes, rinsed with water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYE3FT4sCiY
You definitely see purple color, but there is some remaining quite dark blue at the corner. If I hadnt rinsed the paper, it would be very difficult to detect purple.
What do you think about all this?