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Analysis of potassium carbonate in cyanide plating bath

[editor appended this entry to this thread which already addresses it in lieu of spawning a duplicative thread]
Q. Hi. What analysis do you recommend to determine carbonates in silver cyanide tanks?

Alejandra Padilla
- chihuahua, mexico
December 2, 2024




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Q. I need a test procedure for Potassium carbonate in a silver plating bath.

Kenneth Henry
Plating shop employee - Miramar, Florida, USA
2007


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A. Take a 10 ml sample of plating bath, add about 100 ml distilled water, and heat it almost to boiling. With stirring, gradually add 15 ml 10% barium chloride ⇦ this on Amazon [affil links] or barium nitrate ⇦ this on Amazon [affil links] solution. A white precipitate will form.

Continue heating, with occasional stirring, for about an hour. Add more water if necessary. Now, let it cool, and filter it through Whatman #4 ⇦[this on eBay or Amazon affil links] , or the equivalent. Heat up about 50 ml more distilled water, and rinse the white solid in the cone with it. Take the filtrate and put it in your cyanide waste treatment system, or just add some bleach bleach/sodium hypochlorite in bulk on eBay or Amazon [affil links] to it, with good ventilation.

Transfer the filter cone, plus the precipitate, to a beaker. Add about 80 ml of water, and a few drops methyl orange this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] indication solution. Now, titrate to a red endpoint, with 1N HCl ⇦ this on Amazon [affil links] .

I do not recall the factor. With a little arithmetic, you can calculate it.

dave wichern
Dave Wichern
Consultant - The Bronx, New York
2007


A. Here's one way:
Reagents: 1.0M HCl, 30%BaCl, methyl orange this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] indicator

Procedure: pipette [pipettes on eBay or Amazon [affil links] 10ml plating solution into a 400ml beaker [beakers on eBay or Amazon [affil links] , add 200 ml DI water, and heat to just under boiling. Add 15 ml BaCl, allow the precipitate to settle, and filter through a #40 Whatman filter paper, washing with hot DI water. Transfer the paper with precipitate to a beaker, add 200 ml DI water, and pulp the paper with a stirring rod. Add 5 drops methyl orange this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] and titrate with 1.0N HCl to a pink endpoint.

g/l K2CO3 = (mls HCl) x 6.9

James Totter
James Totter, CEF
- Tallahassee, Florida
2007




Q. How can I analyze the carbonate in the copper cyanide bath?

Mohamed Moddasser Hussien
- Alexandria, Egypt
November 8, 2013




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