Selecting oxidizers

[Yggdrasil]

Hi!
I didn't find an appropriate existing topic for this post so I made a new one.


I'm hoping someone can enlighten me regarding the selection of oxidizers.
If you select sufficiently strong oxidizers the targeted material will be dissolved, at least to some degree.
But is it best to have the "correct" oxidizer or the strongest possible oxidizer when targeting Precious metals?
Do your plan for reclaiming the values also dictate which oxidizer is selected?
In other words:
One may select a presumed slower/weaker oxidizing complex in order to make it more convenient to precipitate the values later?

Do anyone of the Chemists in here have a short description of how the oxidizing dissolution process work in a low level.
Or a link to where I/we can learn about it :wink:

 

[nickvc]

I'm afraid I'm not a chemist but the choice of oxidiser is often down to what is available or suitable for the material you wish to dissolve.
If you have foils or finely divided gold powders HCl plus bleach or peroxide will work fine to dissolve the gold but if you have solid material then you need to use nitric or notates with HCl to dissolve it.