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I gotta go with what other actual chemists in the comments already said. Do electrolysis if you really want to "clean" your "AP". Use a piece of copper grounding wire as your cathode and something resistant as your anode (someone else suggested stainless steel) and give it about 1.5vdc. You don't pollute the solution with yet more metal ions of a different type, and your cathode gets a nice, pretty plating of copper. Doing it the way you did it only replaces the copper with a different metal, just like precipitating the copper by feeding it aluminum foil.
Get a platinum coated titanium anode (or you can use graphite as anode) and use electrolysis. Not only will you recover the copper, you will be able to re-use the solution.
What might prevent the copper from attaching to the steel? 2-5 of my batches are having a heck of a hard time dropping out of solution. Also 1 of the 3 batches produced more of a crystal structure where as the other 2 had kinda ugly/muddy clumps of copper form.
had 2 rewatch for updating the basics, boil down the ap solution or boil off the water it increases ph, if you originally used 100ml's of hydrochloric and there's now 300 mils boil off 200 ml's or less, boil off the water while soaking other material killing 2 birds with 1 stone
You are replacing the copper with iron. You can still use it as AP but now you have ferric Chloride rather than cupric Chloride II. Also there is nickel cementing out as well. Try using two stainless steel electrodes and 1.5 volts. That should net a purer copper for you.
hello good morning I have a problem is that I have gold in the AP solution and I want to extract the gold the silucuon is very black so I could get the gold out of the solution that has copper
@@seannyc88 No you can't. It can be done using HCl and bleach that has calcium hypochlorite as the base but it expels chlorine gas. Ro if you can find potassium or sodium nitrate and sulfuric acid in combination with HCL is like aqua regia.
What about using aluminum instead? Copper should still precipitate out. Drying the solution would yield aluminum chloride. Reacting the aluminum chloride with water in a distilling tube into a cooled container should then capture HCl?
I wonder how long it took you to realize that pulling the copper out of the copper chloride solution doesn't equal clean acid peroxide, it equals iron chloride with some copper contamination, not exactly sure if iron chloride will dissolve the copper and base metals out of karat gold or gold plated material, keep us posted on that
What is "acid peroxide" ? Please anyone can tell me what is in the solution? To precipitate out copper, some copper needs to be in the solution! Is is "copperacetate" ? ahh OK hydrochloric acid and hydrogen peroxide! You had a solution of copperhydroxide and main part of copper chloride! 😋
@@scott2296 this is happening due to what is know as the reactive series of metal. It should be Iron not steel. While this looks attached most of the copper is not because the crystals form from one location than work there way out and if you use the right metals those crystals fall off. You can look up people doing these types of reaction called cementing metals.
At the moment where the copper taking place on the metalpart the isolation from the copper will prevent the replacement of ferric in the solution! Nice!
All you did was replace the copper In solution with iron. It didn't help your saturation problem. It made it worse if you planed on reusing that AP. Now yourlve replaced a metal that is lower on the reactivity serious with one that is several steps higher. You essentially ruined still viable AP. Instead what you should have done if if your AP becomes saturated, is simply add more clean HCL. Smh
