The gray color is silver chloride. This is not soluble and will settle to the bottom of your container. Carefully separate silver chloride. Allow it to dry. Once dry, put the silver chloride into a crucible and heat in an electri furnace. This will liberate the chlorine from the silver.
Are you sure? 😁 I was hoping that just dilute hcl not heated up would not be strong enough to reach with the silver n form a chloride, usually you need nitric to react with ag.
Yes. That is silver chloride. The electrolysis is creating silver ions that immediately combind with the chlorine in the muriatic acid (HCl). Often, nitric acid is used to electroplate silver. It is a more expensive acid but your silver yield will be better and with fewer steps.
The advantage nitric acid has over muriatic acid is that the silver nitrate IS soluble and stays in solution and is therefore much more efficient in the electroplating process. There are quite a few RUclips videos on this process. Streetips is one such RUclips channel that refines silver in large, multi-pound, batches using nitric acid. You have a great channel and you are definately on the right track.
The gray color is silver chloride. This is not soluble and will settle to the bottom of your container. Carefully separate silver chloride. Allow it to dry. Once dry, put the silver chloride into a crucible and heat in an electri furnace. This will liberate the chlorine from the silver.
Are you sure? 😁 I was hoping that just dilute hcl not heated up would not be strong enough to reach with the silver n form a chloride, usually you need nitric to react with ag.
Yes. That is silver chloride. The electrolysis is creating silver ions that immediately combind with the chlorine in the muriatic acid (HCl).
Often, nitric acid is used to electroplate silver. It is a more expensive acid but your silver yield will be better and with fewer steps.
It will form silver nitrate if adding nitric to the water and doing the electrolysis, no? So it's basically the same problem?
I might just go back to salt water. lol
The advantage nitric acid has over muriatic acid is that the silver nitrate IS soluble and stays in solution and is therefore much more efficient in the electroplating process.
There are quite a few RUclips videos on this process. Streetips is one such RUclips channel that refines silver in large, multi-pound, batches using nitric acid.
You have a great channel and you are definately on the right track.