Letter 098

Electroplating with niobium

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Although there is reference in the literature to the plating of titanium and its alloys I have not found anything that suggests it would be possible to electroplate these metals with niobium. Is there any experience of electroplating with niobium?

Richard Curtis

Niobium is not mentioned in Safranek's "The Properties of Electrodeposited Metals and Alloys", nor is it listed in Faust's list of electroplateable metals in ASM's Electroplating course, or in ASM's Volume 5: Surface Engineering, the Metal Finishing Guidebook, or Durney's "Electroplating Engineering Handbook". If I had to bet on a guess, I'd bet on it not being plateable--but hopefully one of our readers will enlighten us both.

Ted Mooney, P.E.  finishing.com Brick, NJ

Niobium plating, in case you still interested in, go to Russian hand book 1987,F.F.Ajogin,page 310.

Cair Shishani
aircraft maintenance - Abu Dhabi, UAE

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