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Titanium plating

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I have asked this question before but recieved unclear responses due to the confusing question I posed. I would like to know if Titanium can be electroless or electroplated onto steel and cast iron? Thank you very much for your time. Mark

mark robidoux
- malvern, Pennsylvania

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No. Titanium cannot be electroless or electroplated onto steel and cast iron. Titanium is too active to electroplate. However, some alloys containing a small amount of titanium can be electroplated. Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E. finishing.com Brick, New Jersey

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Titanium can be deposited on steel or cast iron by PVD processes.

Jim Treglio Lakeside, California

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Titanium can be electroplated from water based solutions and also from non-acqueous solutions.

Recipe 1:
70 gm sodium metatitanate
30 gm sodium acetate
30 gm sodium hydroxide
1 lit. water,30-70 C,1-5 A/dm2

Recipe 2:
100 gm Ti(OH)2
40 gm HCl
100 gm NH4Cl
water 1 lit.,pH 4-5,30-50 C,3-4A/dm2

Recipe 3.:
30 gm Ti( in form of TiCl3 or TiI3)
200 ml toluene 0,02 % pitch(?)
800 ml etyl alcohol
18 C,21 A/dm2,graphite anode

All from Russian book L.I.Kadaner:Galvanostegija(electroplating handbook),Kiev 1964.

Goran Budija
- Zagreb, Croatia