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Hard chrome plating using chrome anodes

Can't I use chrome metal anode in hard chrome plating

Susheel Daga
proprietor - Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
March 25, 2009

Hi, Susheel. To the best of my knowledge nobody has ever been able to do that. It probably has to do with the fact that in a chrome plating bath, chromium is an anion rather than a cation:
H₂CrO₄ --> H⁺ + H⁺ + CrO ₄^-2

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Ted Mooney, P.E.
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March 30, 2009

you know, when Chromium is polarized as anode. it is dissolved quicker than it is deposited at cathode. As the solution is condensed Chrome fast. Have many problem when chromium concentration changed

Giap Thang
- Viet Nam
April 1, 2009

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