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Subject: H2O2 and ferric chloride

From: "Leon Heller" <leon_heller@...>
Date: 2003-07-02

My ferric chloride etchant was obviously exhausted, when I was etching a
couple of small boards this afternoon, so I sloshed in some H2O2, reasoning
that it would oxidise any cuprous chloride to cupric chloride - an etchant
in its own right, and convert ferrous chloride back to ferric chloride.
There was a lot of fizzing and the board finished etching in seconds. I had
previously added some HCl to prevent sludge build-up.

Leon
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