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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] what is sulfate of zinc and acidulated water andsaturated copper sulfate crystals ?

2017-01-17 by Rob

I was\ufffd asking a chemistry question here on HOMEBREW_PCBs because we have a number of VERY toxic
processess that we use to etch PCBs and we often had chemists drop in and give us directions and safety advice.

I use the off the shelf hardware store muriactic acid for etching.
I believe it is 30% hydrochloric acid mixed with 70% water

and
I use the off the shelf drug store hydrogen peroxide which is 3% peroxide and 97% water.

So when I mix 100 millileters of peroxide with 50 millileters of muriactic acid I end up with a lot of water
and a pretty safe chmical that has successfully etch 50 PCBs for me so far without any toxic incident.

I would never have learned that here if it were not for the chemists.

Thank you chemists. \ufffd






On 01/17/2017 05:20 AM, 'David C. Partridge' david.partridge@... [Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:
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Can we stop this off-topic discussion please

Posted by: "David C. Partridge"










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