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[Platdigger]

"That hydrolytic procedure is a common one, especially with cleaning up cell electrolyte. It can be operated in reverse of course, precipitating AgCl, filtering, and then forming the hydrous oxide before redissolving in sulfuric, fuming, forming the Pd sulfito complex and decomposing in sulfuric to Pd metal."
If anyone understands this sentence (besides Lou of course who wrote it"grin") and can put it in layman terms...please do.
Thanks
Actually I understand what you are saying Lou up until the fuming part.
Do you mean boil the sulfuric until fuming?

 

[anachronism]

"That hydrolytic procedure is a common one, especially with cleaning up cell electrolyte. It can be operated in reverse of course, precipitating AgCl, filtering, and then forming the hydrous oxide before redissolving in sulfuric, fuming, forming the Pd sulfito complex and decomposing in sulfuric to Pd metal."
If anyone understands this sentence (besides Lou of course who wrote it"grin") and can put it in layman terms...please do.
Thanks
Actually I understand what you are saying Lou up until the fuming part.
Do you mean boil the sulfuric until fuming?

My layman's understanding is that it is the process of converting a compound to another compound using the elements in water to form that compound. In this case Palladium Nitrate is converted to Hydrous Palladium Oxide in the first conversion step by raising the pH to 6. In the second step this is readily dissolved by HCl to form a Palladium Chloride solution.

I could be wrong however I think that the same class of process is used when treating waste solutions by raising the pH to 6 and dropping out the base metals as Hydroxides but I'm sure someone could either ratify or refute that.

I hope that's of some use to the first part of your question.