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Tin from Solder
Doing some research on the forum, it seems a decent amount of people have tried to extract tin from solder with little success. I've found that it
really isnt that hard just to electrolyze a solution of sodium chloride with a solder anode and copper cathode.
Lead chloride precipitates out leaving a stannous chloride solution which can be electrolyzed to form tin crystals.
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DavidJR
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You can also get lead free solders, many of which are substantially tin and contain only small amounts of other metals like copper and silver.
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lead sulfate and chloride I believe are insoluble
Within cells interlinked
Within cells interlinked
Within cells interlinked
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Lead chloride is noticeably more soluble in solutions where there is already a high chloride concentration.
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Lead will form complex ions with excess chloride, so some of it will stay in solution. The sulphate may be a better choice- it doesn't coordinate
nearly as well.
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I did a tin-lead separation by dissolving solder in nitric acid. Lead went into solution as lead nitrate, and tin ended up in precipitate as, I think,
tin dioxide or stannic acid. Of course, it was actually lead I was after, and the dioxide was discarded.
Smells like ammonia....
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My tin contains 99.3% Sn and 0.7% Cu. I wonder if it could be useful in any chemistry applications.
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