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Offline spoom

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How to recover silver from x-rays ?
« on: January 23, 2012, 04:21:34 PM »
I put the X-ray in a solution of sodium hydroxide getting a dark liquid with solid waste. What should I do next?

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Re: How to recover silver from x-rays ?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2012, 05:20:29 PM »
I once had a reference that detailed this sort of procedure step-by-step, but I have lost it a long time ago: http://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=23385.msg88784#msg88784  Briefly, however, I'd expect that the liquid doesn't contain silver, but the solid contains at least some silver oxide.  You should be aware that they sell devices, basically mini-plating cells, to extract silver from photographic wastes -- http://www.finishing.com/3800-3999/3910.shtml  This is only cost effective for massive quantities of photographic waste.
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