[alex-book]

Hi all,

I just want to ask help for one of my project.
I have a cuprous chloride powder that I need to bring up to a elevated temperature, and once it solidify I have a problem in dissolving it so that I could clean my container. I have found that both ammonia & HCl will work well to dissolve this solidified coprous chloride. However those two chemicals are corrosive material which will be bad for the container that I am using to contain the solution. Is there any other suggestion of what kind of non-corrosive solution or solution that is has low corrosive rate that could help me to dissolve this solidified copper chloride. The material that I am using for the container is SS316 and Inconel 617.

If there is any suggestion it will be greatly appreciated please help me. or if there is any suggestion regarding where I should try to find these information.

Thank you

Alex

[majorjp]

Perhaps as Sodium thiosulfate solution, it should be able to dissolve the copper chloride, the one drawback is that is does cause pitting in stainless steel. But if your SS 316 container is the SS AlSl 316 hMo alloy, this could be a top choice due to the Molybdenum in the alloy. If not may try a HCN solution as the solvent