lahthffire - 23-8-2006 at 10:42
I have a part that is made of steel, and it looks like it has been electroplated with nickel. It's been electroplated with something silver, anyways.
Can anybody think of a handy way to confirm or deny that the plating is nickel? The good old XRF analyzer would do the trick, but it's not currently
available.
12AX7 - 23-8-2006 at 15:50
Could leach off some with HCl, then test it with, um, whatever that glyme is that precipitates nickel (pink complex).
Tim
not_important - 23-8-2006 at 18:58
Nitric acid might work better, about 35% or so, just a drop. Hydrated nickle salts are green, copper blue-green. Dimethylgloxime gives a red
precipitate with a neutral to weakly alkaline solution of nickel salts. You can buy tests kits for nickel.