I think you mean glassWhat type of plastic was it, and what did you have in it?
I would restate Snail's warning as "plastic containers are less prone to breakage than plastic, but check them regularly as many of the solutions we use can cause them to become brittle over time".
Nitric, in particular, will cause many plastics, including HDPE, to become brittle.
Dave
Yes, it depends strongly on the type of plastic. Ordinary buckets are made of PP - problematic when cold, and also flexible just to some point. PP buckets are easy to break when smashed, or also it is easy to punch the hole through (eg when stirring with heavy rod) from the inside. Pick the buckets with thick wall, not these transparent thin ones. Good stuff is from old indoor wall paints or some pre-made plaster.
Agreed. I use 1 gallon paint buckets, especially as secondary containers for a lot of acids. When we were rehabbing houses, I ended up with quite a few.Good stuff is from old indoor wall paints or some pre-made plaster.
Depends what type of plastic it is made of. They make biodegradable plastics these days and used for buckets as well. Those will disintegrate very soon, specially outside, in the sun. Mostly made for food products, including new buckets supplied for hardware stores. I use buckets made for motor oils or some cleaning agent supplied for industry.They're actually pretty sturdy. I was waiting for the moment one bucket to fail or get brittle to make a picture of it, for this reply only. It didn't
This one was the iron pot for quite a few years. But I wanted to replace it before it got brittle anyway and so I smashed it on the edge of my bench to make the picture. Tried to break by pushing on the side and it was flexible as if it was new. Darn things.
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Please leave the original content alone if you edit like this, it's better to see the progress of the thread.Hello everyone, what steps after cementation, what should I do with cement, how do I recover?
Thanks for the response
I did not see the "book" that you mentioned.. All these tests are discussed in the book in my signature line below, as well as extensive posts on the forum that can be found using the search function.
If you are usung a phone to read, turn it sideways to read the signature lines.I did not see the "book" that you mentioned.
Thanks for your detailed explanation, but there is one thing I still don't understand.Why Copper?
Many people talk about using iron, zinc, aluminum, or other metals for cementing. While they will certainly work, and they have their place in certain situations, they will also cement everything below them on the reactivity series. The advantage of using copper is that it will only cement silver, gold, PGMs, and mercury if it happens to be in your solution. Any other metals can be cemented out with iron when you treat the solution for waste. This is discussed fully in the book in my signature line and on the forum. Search for "stock pot".
That is correct, Copper do not dissolve in HCl.Thanks for your detailed explanation, but there is one thing I still don't understand.
From what I have found online, copper is not soluble in HCl alone so if you are dealing with aqua regia which you have deNOX'd, there will be no cementation reaction if using copper.
וIon exchange is what happens. A copper ion is traded for a PM ion. PM ion comes out of solution in exchange for an ion of copper going into solution. This is the simple explanation as I understand it.
Copper will not dissolve into HCl, but on exposure to oxygen it will. Copper in HCl, left with no sealed lid is enough exposure to allow the copper to dissolve, but very slowly. By adding a larger amount of oxygen, for example an air pump, will speed up the process. This is often why an air source is used for agitation when cementing PM’s.
Yggdrasil beat me to it.
The reason for ion exchange with copper is AuCl4-, PdCl4=, are strong oxidizers. Air helps with stirring
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