Roger,
I think you will find that this is not a particularly effective technique. HCl in its native state at room temperature is a gas, what you purchase is an aqueous solution of it. I think you will drive the HCl out of solution before you evaporate much of the water, thus leaving yourself with a weaker soln.
Hal
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Roger Blair" <Roger.Blair@...> wrote:
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> I wish to prepare some HCl/H2O2 etchant, and I have 10% HCl. (10% HCl is $5 per gallon, but 40% HCl which is what I need is a lot
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> The solution as I see it is to reduce the 10% HCL solution to 40% concentration. I am thinking of using a Pyrex container on low
> temp lab hotplate (100�?) to �boil� off the H2O. (outdoors)
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> Since I know next to nothing about chemistry, not to mention whether this technique would actually produce what I need, I would like
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> I have a general understanding of safety issues in handling chemicals, and wish to do this in a reasonably safe manner, BTW�
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> (I will be working with no more than 10 to 20oz. of 10% solution at a time, to minimize any environmental impact to me, and the
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> Any advice would be appreciated.
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> Thanks,
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