silver metal

[thurben2000]

I have a question about silver. i just started doing some silver refining. i used the method of doing reverse
electroplating. I was able to remove the silver plating sucesfully. Is this silver plating, silver metal ? if so how do i covert it to silver chloride so that i can refine it further. to get 3 999 fine. any help is appreciated. thanks

 

[Lino1406]

Silver + HCl + H2O2 will give Silver Chloride. Base metals in same system will stay in the liquid phase

 

[Martijn]

Did you reverse electroplate in tap water or sulfuric?

 

[thurben2000]

i did the process in salt water. it came off real good but i'm not sure what this metal is called. i did it one time
before but when i melted it's like the silver dissapeared.

 

[Martijn]

In tap water it comes off as black silver oxide which i dissolve in nitric and cement on copper to put in the silver nitrate cell.
I tried salt water once to increase conductivity and it seemed to me the silver came off as silver chloride. It also left a white layer on the silver and large pieces of plating came off with rinsing and brushing clean with a paint brush.
It dissolved in nitric and left hardly any residue so that indicates its not AgCl... i think...
I'm back on tap water.