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Nickel plating with nickel acetate, nickel chloride, sulfur, saccharin and coumarin
I am a hobbyist trying to learn/apply a nickel electroplating process that I can safely do at my shop. My substrate is a machinable non-stainless steel with unknown carbon content, and I'm looking to ...
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Electroplating copper onto steel
I'm rather unfamiliar with chemistry but I want to electroplate steel with copper.
From Wikipedia:
The cations associate with the anions in the solution. These cations are reduced at the cathode ...
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How to plate zinc evenly on a threaded bar
I need to set a number of threaded bars into cement, to hold a new gatepost. When I cut the bar into shorter pieces, the metal near the cut became red hot, presumably hot enough to evaporate some or ...
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