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What plating salt is better for nickel plating?

I tried silver nitrate for easy and quick plating and its too dull.I want to know if potassium_ferricyanide [affil links] disolves silver metal as it dissolves silver on potographing paper.and for easy homemade solution which salt would be best to use to plate nickel. nickel oxide vs. nickel sulphate

David Castillo
hobbyist - Abilene, Texas, U.S.A.
August 14, 2009

Hi, David. Please be careful about using chemicals that you have little understanding of. There are hazards all about. But you can electroplate nickel out of nickel sulphate; you can't plate it out of nickel oxide because it's insoluble, meaning you'll have no (actually very very little) nickel in solution.

Regards,

Ted Mooney, P.E.
Striving to live Aloha
finishing.com - Pine Beach, New Jersey
August 17, 2009

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