Ok new one here so be kind of nice to me.... I had a bunch of silver in my silver pot and added more when it started to dissolve to burn off the nitric acid. and noticed it turning a dark brown color.
So I then took out the silver and noticed several small magnetic pieces in the solution. So I tried to use more nitric acid and dissolve what I had and then was going to cement the silver out with copper and start all over. (please note there are no precious metals besides silver in solution.
Well when adding nitric acid by small amounts had a delayed reaction with a boil over (dark brown goop).
I took it off heat, let cool and added a bit more or nitric acid and the solution separated, dark green on top and dark brownish on the bottom.
siphoned off the green, left the brown, cemented the green with copper all seemed to be working ok, was thinking I saved it.
NOW THE ISSUE AT HAND
I added HCL to the brown liquid to see if there was silver in solution, not thinking as I should of only do this to a little bit of the solution. Well this is the problem. Obviously there was silver in solution, and now I have a mess with silver chloride. approx 1400ml. See photo.
What do I do now??
Thanks. Just want to get the silver out of solution but if I have to scrap the whole mess, that would be my lesson.
Thanks.
Mark
So I then took out the silver and noticed several small magnetic pieces in the solution. So I tried to use more nitric acid and dissolve what I had and then was going to cement the silver out with copper and start all over. (please note there are no precious metals besides silver in solution.
Well when adding nitric acid by small amounts had a delayed reaction with a boil over (dark brown goop).
I took it off heat, let cool and added a bit more or nitric acid and the solution separated, dark green on top and dark brownish on the bottom.
siphoned off the green, left the brown, cemented the green with copper all seemed to be working ok, was thinking I saved it.
NOW THE ISSUE AT HAND
I added HCL to the brown liquid to see if there was silver in solution, not thinking as I should of only do this to a little bit of the solution. Well this is the problem. Obviously there was silver in solution, and now I have a mess with silver chloride. approx 1400ml. See photo.
What do I do now??
Thanks. Just want to get the silver out of solution but if I have to scrap the whole mess, that would be my lesson.
Thanks.
Mark