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Recovering Zinc from Zinc Chloride for Science Project [North Carolina] 

November 13, 2006

I am trying to design an experiment for my last Chem lab. Up to this point my professor and myself have come up with trying to dissolve bound metals (i.e. a penny) and then recovering the metals seperately. I am stuck trying to efficiently ( and in the reaches of freshman Chemistry) recover Zn from ZnCl2 without using elecrolysis of molten ZnCl2.
I had hopes of completely dissolving this thing, and then extracting a relatively successful percent yeild of both the Cu and Zn without producing a very cheap brass.

Brendan Wentworth
student - Asheville, NC