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Coating thickness is wearing away when heated after coating nickel on copper

August 5, 2008

Wanting to know if there is any instrument that can measure the plating thickness of nickel coating on copper as base metal, (electrical contact manufacturing), with an least count of 1 micron,

coating thickness is wearing away when heated after coating nickel on copper

Santosh Kumar Karra
coating thickness issues - India

Most surely it is not wear but diffusion of nickel into copper instead. This is a well known phenomena that is accelerated by temperature.

Guillermo Marrufo
Monterrey, NL, Mexico
August 6, 2008

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