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Rhodium plating accounting

When I do rhodium plating, how should I know how much metal I am putting on?

Antonio Panariello
- Miami, Florida
2006

Faraday's Law of Electrolysis will tell you the relationship between ampere-seconds and the mass deposited, Antonio. There is a chart in the Metal Finishing Guidebook where, for simplicity, the various constants like density have been "worked through" so you can directly translate ampere-minutes to thickness with a minimum of arithmetic.

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Another method is to simply weigh the item before and after plating.

Neil Bell
Albuquerque, New Mexico
2006

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