FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Regarding INDUSTRIAL SCALE APPLICATIONS
- Black Oxide and Cold Blackening
- Galvanizing
- Dichromate, Dow, HAE, anodizing, and other finishing of Magnesium
  - A brief update on magnesium surface treatments
- Mil specs and ASTM, ISO, AMS specs
- Nikasil (nickel-silicon) plating -- see letters 551, 1671, 2723, 2858, 2945, 3300, 3605, 4256 and 4938
- Passivation of Stainless Steel
  - Ferroxyl test for passivation -- see letters 3451, 3571, and 4878
- Plating problems
  - Tin pest (see letter 740)
  - Whiskers
    - Copper whiskers (see letter 2899)
    - Tin whiskers (see letters 638, 1063, 1644)
    - Zinc whiskers & cadmium whiskers (see letters 020, 142, and 4694)
- Stripping
  - Stripping anodized coatings on aluminum -- see letters 1685, 2130, 2567, 2776, 2929, 3397, 3674, 4884.
  - Stripping Electroless Nickel
- Vacuum impregnation -- see letters 907, 1656, 3285, 4238
- Wastewater Treatment
  - Electrocoagulation -- see letters 2318, 4924
  - Treating boron in wastewater -- see letters 176a, 242, 1767, 3743, 4809, 6764, 6884, 7434, 7976, 8529, 9372, 10347, 10751, 15307, 20017, 20838, 22119, 27226, 33497, 34850, 35051 (valid 8/05)
for Amateurs, Hobbyists, Beginners
- Science projects
  - What juice cleans pennies best?
  - Demonstrations of plating for science class
- Hobbyists, homeowners, and small scale stuff
  - Bronzing baby shoes -- see ltrs 162, 934, 1892, 2204, 4255
  - Patinas on Copper, Brass, and Bronze
  - Repairing scratches in stainless steel appliances
  - Silver Plating at Home
- Electroplating for beginners
- White gold alert!
  - Understanding white gold and rhodium plating
- Converting between color systems
  - Converting between Pantone, Ral, RGB, Munsell, and CxF.

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