Silver chloride turned dark red when I added the lye

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Rreyes097

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I recently de-plated some silver there wasn't much but I depleted it and I washed it and then washed it with hydrochloric acid and then wash it again with boiling water multiple times. But when I went to go put in the sodium hydroxide everything turned reddish or dark red. Is anybody have any idea where I went wrong and what I could do to fix it?
 
Well there wasn't anything magnetic to my knowledge cuz I tried each piece with a magnet. So how do I get out of this now do I clean it with boiling water? Since it now has sodium hydroxide I'm not quite sure where to go to get my silver chloride back.
 
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