Jmk88,
I can think of ways you could clean the foils without HCl, but I do not think that would help you much at this point, because it would only bring up a thousand more questions with very few answers.
If you are going to learn to recover and refine gold, you will need HCl, muriatic acid, hydrochloric acid, Clorhydric acid, or spirits of salt, common concrete etch or pool cleaner grade will do just fine.
Put up your acid and chemicals away, spend some time looking for muriatic or HCl while you are studying.
Study to gain an understanding before making a mess.
Before making another mess:
I would deal with the last two (study dealing with waste).
Save and dry any powders or solids store them in a safe place.
study the safety section gain an understanding of the dangers and how to do the chemistry safely.
set up a safe small lab.
Use Hoke's book to do the getting acquainted experiments.
Begin your study with a simple recovery process like using cupric chloride to recover gold from memory.
and then further your study of a simple refining process like using HCl and hypochlorite to refine the gold.
study everything you can find about it, before even thinking of opening a bottle of acid.
Study all of the problems that can and will be involved with a process before you open a bottle of acid.
Study all you can find about the acid and the metals before you open the bottle.
Study, and do the research of which mushrooms are good to eat before you make the toxic soup to eat.
Basically stop and study for now.
I would expect any further questions from you would be regarding the safety aspects and dealing with the toxic waste from these last two failed recovery attempts of making a mess before we even think about answering questions concerning how to get a few flakes of gold from some toxic trash.
Or you could just keep throwing mushrooms into a pot of acidic water solutions and see if they taste like soup and then maybe you can figure out which ones are poisonous, or ask the jedi why your tummy hurts.
I can think of ways you could clean the foils without HCl, but I do not think that would help you much at this point, because it would only bring up a thousand more questions with very few answers.
If you are going to learn to recover and refine gold, you will need HCl, muriatic acid, hydrochloric acid, Clorhydric acid, or spirits of salt, common concrete etch or pool cleaner grade will do just fine.
Put up your acid and chemicals away, spend some time looking for muriatic or HCl while you are studying.
Study to gain an understanding before making a mess.
Before making another mess:
I would deal with the last two (study dealing with waste).
Save and dry any powders or solids store them in a safe place.
study the safety section gain an understanding of the dangers and how to do the chemistry safely.
set up a safe small lab.
Use Hoke's book to do the getting acquainted experiments.
Begin your study with a simple recovery process like using cupric chloride to recover gold from memory.
and then further your study of a simple refining process like using HCl and hypochlorite to refine the gold.
study everything you can find about it, before even thinking of opening a bottle of acid.
Study all of the problems that can and will be involved with a process before you open a bottle of acid.
Study all you can find about the acid and the metals before you open the bottle.
Study, and do the research of which mushrooms are good to eat before you make the toxic soup to eat.
Basically stop and study for now.
I would expect any further questions from you would be regarding the safety aspects and dealing with the toxic waste from these last two failed recovery attempts of making a mess before we even think about answering questions concerning how to get a few flakes of gold from some toxic trash.
Or you could just keep throwing mushrooms into a pot of acidic water solutions and see if they taste like soup and then maybe you can figure out which ones are poisonous, or ask the jedi why your tummy hurts.
