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Offline RDX

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Synthesizing platinum from platinum potassium chloride
« on: December 26, 2015, 10:16:28 AM »
After precipitating platinum using KCl I'm left with a solution of platinum potassium chloride. I'm going to guess I need to evaporate this and then mix some solvent in to separate the potassium chloride from the platinum..but what solvent, is the question, I guess. Could anyone help me learn?

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Re: Synthesizing platinum from platinum potassium chloride
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2015, 09:35:01 AM »
I dont know what is the procedure, but I think that you dont have mixture of KCl + Pt but rather some compound like K2PtCl4. According to wikipedia, adding alcohol and base causes the reduction of Pt2+ to Pt0 that should be insoluble in alcohol.

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