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Leaching gold

January 31, 2013

Q. I'm trying to leach the gold out of an aircraft engine stater without harming the stater's blades and metal and without using ZN.
so far with not much of a success.
please advise.

Oz Belzitsky
- Nahariya, Israel

A. Sorry, but are you sure that there is gold in the staters?

Khair Shishani
aircraft maintenance - Al Ain, UAE
March 28, 2013

March 28, 2013

Thanks Cair. I don't know whether Oz is talking about stators or starters, and whether he wants to avoid zinc or zirconium nitride, or how it's possible to leach any metal out of an alloy without harming it. So if we can tell him that there's no gold there anyway, I like that answer :-)

Regards,

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

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