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Can gold chloride be used as an accelerator for electroless plating as replacement for palladium chloride?

2005

I want to plate gold on plastic . I know that usually we use PdCl as an accelerator. Can I use AgCl as accelerator for plating on plastic?
This very important thing for me to finish my final Task.
Thank you for everyone who help me
GBU

Soni [last name deleted for privacy by Editor]
ITB - Bandung,West Java, and Indonesia

I have never heard of it, so to my quite limited knowledge it will not work. But check "Standards and Guidelines for Electroplated Plastics".

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
2005

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