vinegar (basically dilute acetic acid)
Acetic acid CH3COOH.
Sodium chloride (table salt) NaCl.
Hydrochloric acid HCl.
Hydrogen peroxide H2O2.
Basically to me your just talking about making a dilute hydrochloric acid.
CH3COOH + NaCl --> CH3COO(Na) + HCl
We could go further with this formula, with H2O2 and copper, to show it all of the way to copper II chloride with copper, and the organic salts, but I think this gives you the idea.
As we know this HCl with copper and an oxidizer like H2O2 gives us Copper II Chloride.
But here you also have an organic acid in solution.
(Too strong or not the right concentration of the H2O2 and you also have gold in solution)...
I do not see any benefit at all to using this vinegar as a leach, as a round about way to make copper II Chloride to leach copper with(dilute) , full organic impurity's...
Even if I could not get HCl acid.
HCl is normally so readily available, Unless I was living in my cave.
In that case I would rather make HCl, using NaCl salt and H2SO4, distilling off the more pure HCl, and leaving me a useful byproduct. like sodium bisulfate or sodium sulfate, (depending on concentration of the sulfuric used).
Which I could also use that byproduct in other reaction.
Example for making ferrous sulfate (copperas) to precipitate gold with, using the sodium bisulfate to dissolve iron to make the ferrous sulfate, or copperas with...
Doing the reactions safely outside the cave of course, so I wouldn't smoke up my cave.
