Update on Hanovia Gold and Platinum,
I made a ceramic bowl glazed it , fired in a Kiln. The material that I collected came from 3 bottles mostly dried up..there is a oslevent that is sold to clean brushes and mistakes.. This solvent does little towards just disolving the dried material, altho mixing the solvent in with the dried material by stirring together basically put a layer of solvent around the particals as they were scraped together, they would then start collecting in the bottom of the vial.. time consuming...after all the material I could remove from the inside of the vials I poured all into the bowl I had made,, I used a Q-tip as a collector of what stayed in the vial..The Q-tip cotton, only went in the bowl as well..That is where the ash came from..Thinking about this more It may be possible to fire the gold directly in the vial, if it is dried up, not if still liquid with any depth... I have to take a new picture of the gold chloride, can't find it in my computer,, HCL/CL used to dissolve...Mark