[Jewelry making - Article 00549] - Re: [Orchid] Bombing recipes?

[Jeff Demand]

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>     Did that paper mention anything about removal of metals from the
>     solution? I don't recall, or know enough chemistry to be sure. I'd
>     sort of expect the reaction to precipitate insoluable metal salts
>     (chlorides), so the solution would be free of the metals. Is that
>     true? I don't know, for that matter, whether all the appropriate
>     chlorides are actually insoluable.. 

    Years ago I worked briefly in a shop which bombed almost everything.
    I only watched but it was treated pretty casually, much like Peters
    description. They would plate the metal out of spent solution (big
    sheet of stainless steel) before killing with bleach. 

Jeff
Demand Designs
Analog/Digital Modelling & Goldsmithing
http://www.gmavt.net/~jdemand
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