Quote: Originally posted by chloric1 | I was considering neutralizing muriatic acid with excess strong ammonia to dissolve galvanized coating off of steel object while not attacking steel
too heavily. Not sure about the ammonium chloride effect on steel in alkaline solutions. Anybody ever tried this? |
Have you tried a small sample with just muriatic acid to see what happens? The acid might not attack the steel very much at all until all of the zinc
is reacted away. That’s the whole point of the zinc being there in the first place. |