pewter

[cloomis]

How would one seperate silver from pewter?

 

[Lino1406]

is there silver in pewter?

 

[goldsilverpro]

I've never heard of silver being in pewter. It's mostly tin with a little copper, antimony, and, sometimes, lead.

 

[cloomis]

This is a large silver plated urn but the metal under the silver i believe is pewter ,it says made in england 1968,by manor ,the metal melts real easy and quick with propane but the outer plating dosent and resembles silver

 

[goldsilverpro]

Off hand, I can't think of anything that would dissolve the silver without dissolving the tin. Nitric would dissolve both and convert the tin to metastannic acid, a slimy solid which is very voluminous, to say the least. You would have a huge mess and would have great difficulty getting the silver.

I think what you basically have is contaminated tin. Sell it and go on to bigger and better things.

 

[cloomis]

ok now were talking,moving on Thanks :lol: