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Gold electroplating efficiency

Hello,

I cannot write English well, but I am very happy to find your website. I have a small electroplating factory. I have gold, silver and copper electroplating but in gold elec. efficiency is not good. Do you have good and advanced formula for this or not? If you have, help me please.

Mortaza Shafiee
Kavrh - Iran
2002

Hi Mortaza Shafiee,

Probably you are using a low pH (acidic) gold plating bath.Generally when complex salts (Gold potassium cyanide ) are used in acid pH baths the current efficiency is , whereas alkaline cyanide baths have high current efficiency and throwing power.

Venkat Raja
- Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
2002

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