If you mix sulphuric and nitric together, you get something that will
dissolve almost anything including gold I think.
This mix is so famous that it has a name of it's own. [Don't recall the
name just now]
..add a little glycerine?
I don't believe that's what's in acid based tinning flux.
ode
At 07:47 AM 4/15/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>According to the standard lab reference "Elements" by John Emsley,
>science writer at Cambridge University Silver dissolves in sulfuric
>(H2SO4) and nitric acid (HNO3).
>
>Where did you get your information Marshall?
>
>Garnet
>
>On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 22:02, Marshall Dudley wrote:
>> My guess is that it was a 14K silver plated copper chain, and the copper
reacted with the acid. There is no acid that will attack pure silver metal
>> at room temperature alone. If there was then cleaning stains left by
evaporated CS would be easy.
>>
>> Marshall
>>
>> Peter Rebaudo wrote:
>>
>> > Marshall Wrote
>> >
>> > silver is one of the most inert metals there is, it is slightly more
reactive than gold, but
>> > not much. You can drop it into fuming nitric, sulfuric and
hydrochloric acids
>> > (independently) and nothing happens.
>> >
>> > Marshal:
>> >
>> > As a child once I try to clean a silver chain in an Ounce of the acid
tinners use to solder. The chain completely dissolved after a few minutes.
>> >
>> > What kind of acid do You think it was?
>> >
>> > Peter R
>> >
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