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Need to know what materials/chemicals for electroplating

I'm doing a project were I am building a chrome electroplater and I need to know what materials and chemicals I will need. Will someone help?

Danny west
- Eugene, OR

Tell you science teacher you picked the wrong project. High schoolers cannot do chrome plating, which involves as it does carcinogenic and notoriously toxic hexavalent chromium.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey

If you are just researching chrome electroplating and not wanting to actually do it, you can find good technical articles on decorative and functional chromium plating in the Metal Finishing Guidebook which is published by Metal Finishing Magazine.

If you want to actually do some electroplating, then forget chrome. Try zinc electroplating. Zinc plating experiment information can be found in the FAQ section of finishing.com.

Tim Neveau
Rochester Hills, Michigan

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