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Cleaning agent for cleaning copper and-lead coated copper components

Kindly suggest me with a neutral cleaning agent for lead plated on copper component and copper component exposed to sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid atmosphere. Also please suggest an inhibitor soluble in phosphoric acid for prevent lead oxidation.

Narashimun Parthasarathi
Amararaja Batteries Ltd - Tirupati, AndhraPradesh, India
2004

Hello Narashimun. Your questions are a bit vague because removal of soils always depends on what the soils are as well as what the substrate is, and whether you can apply any sort of mechanical cleaning action. But, hopefully, a reader will offer a general class of chemicals. How about cleaning them with sulfuric-phosphoric acid? Good luck.

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2004

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