disPaw
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- Mar 14, 2021
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Alright. . . bring on the flames. . . I'm feeling pretty stupid over here and know I deserve it. I've been lurking for a few months and researching a bit longer. . . still accept that I'm a newb.
I deplated a buncha silver flatware using saltwater & 12V PSU. This was my first go at it and I generated quite a few filter papers. The original plan was to just burn it all up as I melted everything down in the furnace and determine my next step from there. Instead, I found the proverbial wild hair and decided it'd be savvy to incinerate everything and dissolve that in H2SO4 (well, 95% via Liquid Fire). Now I have a grainy, bubbling, black witch's brew that doesn't present any silver chloride if I drip HCL (muriatic acid) into a test sample.
Since I don't seem to have an silver in solution, my thought is to filter it down and burn the solids in hopes to recover the silver (and all sorts of other junk, I'm sure) at the bottom of a crucible in my furnace.
Is that a better track?
I deplated a buncha silver flatware using saltwater & 12V PSU. This was my first go at it and I generated quite a few filter papers. The original plan was to just burn it all up as I melted everything down in the furnace and determine my next step from there. Instead, I found the proverbial wild hair and decided it'd be savvy to incinerate everything and dissolve that in H2SO4 (well, 95% via Liquid Fire). Now I have a grainy, bubbling, black witch's brew that doesn't present any silver chloride if I drip HCL (muriatic acid) into a test sample.
Since I don't seem to have an silver in solution, my thought is to filter it down and burn the solids in hopes to recover the silver (and all sorts of other junk, I'm sure) at the bottom of a crucible in my furnace.
Is that a better track?