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What anode basket material for Cadmium Fluoborate solution?

In cyanide cadmium plating, ball anodes are used in spiral steel holders.
What material is used to hold the cadmium balls in fluoborate cadmium plating solutions?

Harout Marachlian
Consultant - Glendale, California, USA
May 6, 2011

June 15, 2011

Hi Harout,

Both titanium and zirconium anode basket are suitable for cadmium fluoborate plating solution.

Regards,
David

David Shiu
- Singapore

June 16, 2011

I'm afraid that titanium will dissolve quite rapidly in a fluoborate solution. I'm not sure about zirconium, however.

Lyle Kirman

Lyle Kirman
consultant - Cleveland Heights, Ohio

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