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Subject: Re: Starting a CuCl etchant bath without H2O2

From: "AlienRelics" <alienrelics@...>
Date: 2013-08-03

Looks like Oxy-Boost is 100% Sodium Percarbonate.

http://www.textfiles.com/uploads/oxiclean.txt

Steve Greenfield AE7HD

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Kerry Koppert <kkoppert@...> wrote:

> Sodium Percarbonate (aka solid hydrogen peroxide) is a mixture of sodium
> carbonate and hydrogen peroxide Na2CO3.5H2O2. When dissolved in water it
> forms an aqueous solution of Sodium Carbonate and Hydrogen Peroxide. Mix
> that with Hydrochloric acid and you get an aqueous solution of Salt,
> hydrogen peroxide and gaseous carbon dioxide. 1Kg of percarbonate (costs
> $8 / Kg in New Zealand, they probably give it away in USA) is equivalent
> to 1 Litre of 35% hydrogen peroxide.
>
> It's used in washing as a bleach
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sodium-Percarbonate-Oxygen-Bleach-Oxyclean-Tide-1-2-lb-/190477839862?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c595d2df6
>
> >