Wow, so many helpful people! That's why I love this forum! Anyways,Thank-you, oz,for your input. This was streight muriatic acid, no water added. And it was only very warm, not boiling. My hot plate doesn't get that hot. It's just a fancy warming "trivet" kinda thing for casseroles on the buffet table. I like using it because nothing can boil over on it. It just keeps things real hot.Can you precipitate stuff out of plain muriatic?
Palladium, Got a microwave oven you don't mind wrecking? That should work pretty quick, huh?
stihl88, I get my water from a well, so no chlorine, but I'm sure there are alot of minerals in it, like iron and , uh, well, stuff like that. Heh, Heh.
eeTHr; nice name. I did add some water when I poured all the little jars into one larger jar. I used both well and distilled water when I rinsed the bottles into the one jar. Cuz I was doing them at separate times. It was only 4 little bottles that it happened in. And these little bottles did get left on the hotplate a little longer than usual. So maybe it did brake down alot.
Harold, I don't like to think that I work blindly. And who's Charlene? I've stopped useing distilled water when I'm doing AR. But I still use it when doing Nitric digesting because for some reason it really affects the results. And I'm noticing that "purified" water seems to cut down on the "blue goo" too. weird.
Platdigger; yes, it was from a nitric digest that I got the gold flakes in the "blue goo" from that I was cleaning up in the muriatic acid.
markqfl, nope, I'm a dummy, but, I still haven't gotten myself any stannous to test with. And after all these years,too.
Again, thanks for all the suggestions. So, should I try dropping it out with SS? Or adding more water and waiting awhile? It has sat overnite, and not on the hotplate.