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Remove ammonia from electroplating nickel

2006

My problem is that my electroplating nickel has been contaminated with Electroless Nickel.
Any of you know how to remove it from the electroplating nickel?
I have tried at laboratory with high pH, KMnO4, "natrium hypochloride", iron sulfur. None of them has work.

Simao Sabrosa
Galvametao - Brazil

2006

Hi There,

how do you determine the ammonium contamination? Maybe you should try a dummy plating with higher voltage.

Regards,

Dominik Michalek
- Mexico City, Mexico

Its probably easier to dump the bath and start again. Oxidising ammonia [on eBay or Amazon] to nitrogen is not easy and will probably put everything else out of specification. Oxidising ammonia to anything else will only result in more problems.

Trevor Crichton
R&D practical scientist
Chesham, Bucks, UK
2006

Ammonia is not removable from a nickel bath. Try to cut the bath to an acceptable level.

Russell Richter
- Danbury, Connecticut, USA
2006

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