Rusty2751
Member
G'day all,
Hope you had a great Xmas and New Year. I have been given a metal which has puzzled me.
It was a sheet of metal about 10cm x 75cm x 2-3mm thick. Bound with 5 turns of a pure silver wire.
It is malleable, flexible and looks and acts like lead sheet. Took the wire off and it dissolved it in nitric as usual (silver). The plate is another matter though. I treated it like lead and nothing dissolved, I thought that it might be Cadmium, tried HCL and sulphuric, but nothing. Then of course AR but still nothing happened. I don’t think that it is Pt or could it? How bizarre?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Regards
Russ
Hope you had a great Xmas and New Year. I have been given a metal which has puzzled me.
It was a sheet of metal about 10cm x 75cm x 2-3mm thick. Bound with 5 turns of a pure silver wire.
It is malleable, flexible and looks and acts like lead sheet. Took the wire off and it dissolved it in nitric as usual (silver). The plate is another matter though. I treated it like lead and nothing dissolved, I thought that it might be Cadmium, tried HCL and sulphuric, but nothing. Then of course AR but still nothing happened. I don’t think that it is Pt or could it? How bizarre?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Regards
Russ