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Selective etching of silver on copper

Hi,

I am looking for a selective etchant for silver in presence of copper. I would like to reveal the structure of a silver layer electrodeposited on brass and could not do this with the traditional etchants, because they attack copper much faster...

Thanks

Virginia

Virginia Costa
researcher - Meudon, France
2007

"Metallography and Microstructure in Ancient and Historic Metals"

on AbeBooks

or Amazon

(affil links)

Try kaker.com website-they have very good online etchant database. Metallography and microstructure of ancient and modern metals book (by D.A.Scott) may help you too. Hope it helps and good luck!

Goran Budija
- Cerovski vrh Croatia
2007

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