C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 22 – B
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
22
B
C22B 11/00 (2006.01) C22B 3/44 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2551166
This invention is a chemical process for decomposing an aqueous complex precious metal salt into an insoluble oxide precipitate, which is altered to an anhydrous oxide or is reduced to a metal, comprising the neutralizing and changing of a primary inorganic acid solution to a secondary solution of formic acid, and decomposing the formic acid, by the addition of hydrogen peroxide, which produces carbonic acid, in which a precious metal salt precipitates as a hydrate oxide, which then is altered by heat to become an anhydrous oxide, or is reduced to a metal by mixing said hydrate oxide into a formic acid solution and boiling said mixture to dryness in an atmosphere, devoid of oxygen. This process is based on the novel consideration that inter-molecular water is integrally locked into the molecular structure of aqueous salts, which has applications in every aspect of wet-lab chemistry, particularly, the analyses and extraction of precious metals from aqueous acid solutions.
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Welk Paul
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