the very BEST method to DEPLATE your SILVER 

An easy way to do a lot in one go is to put some silver plated stuff in a storage tote with KCl, muriatic acid, plus a nitrate salt of your choosing, but avoid ammonium nitrate. The solution should be acidic but not oferly so. The reaction produces AgCl plus a wide range of other metal chlorides. The nitrate acts as a removal catalyst. What will happen is the AgCl forms a coating that simply brushes or washes off and settles to the bottom. The base metals remain in solution which will turn blue over time. Endpoint is when your silver plated stuff shows its true color. Sort by metal type and recycle. To convert your AgCl to silver simply filter it off than disolve in ammonia solution and electrolyze it. You will make silver and amonium chloride. Another option is to reduce with carbon or copper❤

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Interesting stripping method. I stopped with plated silver a while ago because it was such a pain to remove but this looks very good. I had never thought about adding a nitrate salt to the stripping vessel. As far as refining the silver goes I would advise two things: First, filter the life out of it once you have it all dissolved. The clearer the solution is the more pure the end result will be. I found that spending more time filtering will save you time and reagents down the road. Secondly, I would advise NOT using HCl to convert to silver chloride and instead use potassium chloride. I use water softener salt for this (25kg bag was $20). This works the same and produces the same silver chloride but it also creates new potassium nitrate which is very easy to recover and purify. I use this same potassium nitrate to generate new nitric acid and dramatically reduce my costs. I've literally recovered well over 10kg of potassium nitrate this way and use sulfuric acid drain opener to make new nitric acid. I just keep cycling it all back around. Not to mention nitric acid is getting rather hard to come by now. You can use sodium chloride but sodium nitrate is much more soluble than potassium nitrate is making it harder to recover and purify. But a great method to strip the plating off. I'll have to give it a shot.

Awesome video, Thank you. Been looking for a way to remove silver from brass rods without losing brass in solution. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to more video's.

I would love you to do a video in Gold Filled material, Ive been studying refining for three years, almost ready to start once my fume hood is up and running, very interested to see if I can learn something new, looking forward to seeing your future videos, Derek from the U.K.

Hey Doc. Wondering if you ok? Haven't seen anything new. Working on solder removal before pm removal myself.

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