Wingedcloud
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Hello everyone,
I started a new batch on last wednesday, that consisted on applying the AR process to the material on the next picture.
The back part (where the solder is) had an IC, that I removed with an heat gun.
After removing those IC, I prepared a container with HCl and a bit of water, which I heated before i started small aditions of HNO3, to dissolve the metals in the pins.
The reaction was going smoothly (good color in the picture). When the reaction was almost done (i kept checking if the pins were already dissolved), I made one last addition of nitric (24 mL in total, if I recall correctly), and, since I had to leave, I removed the container from the hot plate and left it under the fume hood to finish the reaction for when I came back the next morning.
The next morning, my solution had cooled down and was very dark black, as I've never seen an AR before(and I have seen plenty). I made my usual procedure: prepared a new container with some ice to which I poured the AR solution, washed the residue with the wash bottle, and added a small amount of H2SO4 to precipitate any lead, as I always do.
I then proceed to filter the solution. After filtering, in my filter I had a dark powder (i can put a picture of it tomorrow) and some undissolved gold particles from the pins.
The AR solution remained very dark black (my phone lantern wont go throuhg it at all). I kept going forward and added SMB to precipitate the gold in the solution. No color change.
As I am writing this, i left the solution to decant the gold powder that would come out with the SMB addition, waiting to be filtered tomorrow. However, I'm feeling that I won't have much gold at the bottom of my container tomorrow, because I regularly checked for a deposit during today and couldnt see any.
I searched for a while in the forum for a similar problem, and came up with this idea: is it possible that the tin I initially had on the back of my starting material had produced colloidal gold, which is darkening my solution, and that some of it got on my filter?
I have 0 experience with colloidal gold, don't know much about it (how it forms and what causes this) and have never come across a similar situation. I too read that solutions with colloidal gold are usually red colored, and not dark as my solution is now.
I'll filter my solution tomorrow to check if any gold came out with the SMB, and keep the filtered solution until I know what happened. Meanwhile, if anyone can help me figuring this out, would be much appreciated.
Best regards,
Winged
I started a new batch on last wednesday, that consisted on applying the AR process to the material on the next picture.
The back part (where the solder is) had an IC, that I removed with an heat gun.
After removing those IC, I prepared a container with HCl and a bit of water, which I heated before i started small aditions of HNO3, to dissolve the metals in the pins.
The reaction was going smoothly (good color in the picture). When the reaction was almost done (i kept checking if the pins were already dissolved), I made one last addition of nitric (24 mL in total, if I recall correctly), and, since I had to leave, I removed the container from the hot plate and left it under the fume hood to finish the reaction for when I came back the next morning.
The next morning, my solution had cooled down and was very dark black, as I've never seen an AR before(and I have seen plenty). I made my usual procedure: prepared a new container with some ice to which I poured the AR solution, washed the residue with the wash bottle, and added a small amount of H2SO4 to precipitate any lead, as I always do.
I then proceed to filter the solution. After filtering, in my filter I had a dark powder (i can put a picture of it tomorrow) and some undissolved gold particles from the pins.
The AR solution remained very dark black (my phone lantern wont go throuhg it at all). I kept going forward and added SMB to precipitate the gold in the solution. No color change.
As I am writing this, i left the solution to decant the gold powder that would come out with the SMB addition, waiting to be filtered tomorrow. However, I'm feeling that I won't have much gold at the bottom of my container tomorrow, because I regularly checked for a deposit during today and couldnt see any.
I searched for a while in the forum for a similar problem, and came up with this idea: is it possible that the tin I initially had on the back of my starting material had produced colloidal gold, which is darkening my solution, and that some of it got on my filter?
I have 0 experience with colloidal gold, don't know much about it (how it forms and what causes this) and have never come across a similar situation. I too read that solutions with colloidal gold are usually red colored, and not dark as my solution is now.
I'll filter my solution tomorrow to check if any gold came out with the SMB, and keep the filtered solution until I know what happened. Meanwhile, if anyone can help me figuring this out, would be much appreciated.
Best regards,
Winged