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White powder on gold plated ceramics

We clean some of our gold ceramics with a Potassium Hydroxide solution can this cause a white powder on our plated parts?

Terry Dooley
Ceramics and Injection Molding - Chattanooga, Tennessee
2007

Terry,
The answer to your question is yes. You are probably getting a KOH salt residue. You may want to try a solvent cleaner, which of course would leave minimal residue and would also dry faster. Good Luck!

Mark Baker
Process Engineer - Syracuse, New York
2007

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