Important: Safety Warning
This page describes trade processes that use dangerously toxic materials such as cyanide solutions, mercury amalgams, or strong acids. These processes require training, equipment, and precautions far beyond what the text describes.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Electroplating With Various Metals
Galvanic Tinning
M. Maistrasse-Dupré, it appears, had been commissioned by the French government to apply, by galvanic means, tin upon divers objects which…
Cyanide Solution of Copper
wire with the piece of zinc in the porous cell, To prepare copper solutions by means of and immersed in the outer liquid, when it will…
To Electroplate with Tin
Tin purposes is as follows: To a solution of sulis easily deposited from a solution of proto- phate of copper, add a solution of…
Electroplating with Palladium
with copper by the cyanide solution, the sul- Palladium is a metal very easily deposited. phate will make these parts of a dark color, The…
To Coat Iron with Zinc
In requires rather a thick deposit to protect covering iron with zinc, the precautions ne- metals from the action of acids, which is…
To Prepare a Brass Solution
Brass Solution. lution, take 1 pound carbonate of ammonia, 1 pound cyanide of potassium, 2 ounces cyanide of copper, and 1 ounce cyanide of…
To Protect Copper and Brass
Copper and brass are equally well protected tained. Should the copper have a tendency and brass are equally well protected tained. Should…
To Electroplate with Silicium
(in the proportions given above for the brass), bonate of ammonia and cyanide of potassium can be obtained direct from silica: Take the In…