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Nickel Plating Molybdenum

I need to to nickel plate a molybdenum surface in preparation for electroless gold. Can anyone tell how to put a nickel strike coat onto molybdenum.

James A. MacKenzie
UBC Dept. of Physics - Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Mr. MacKenzie: We nickel plate tungsten wires using a potassium hydroxide cleaning and a nickel sulfamate strike and plate. This should work well for molybdenum also. -Kirk

Kirk O'Brien
- Colorado

I have plated Nickel on moly using sequence given in handbook edited by A.K.Graham. It worked fine.

Yashawant Deval
electroplating shop. - Pune, Maharashtra, India

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Ed. note: the current edition of Graham's Electroplating Engineering Handbook is edited by Durney.

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