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- From: donrm@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Don Montgomery)
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:43:46 GMT
- Subject: Re: Etchant types
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
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- In sci.electronics, v064mb9k@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NEIL GANDLER) writes:
-
- > What are the advantages of Ferric Chloride vs. Ammonium Persulphate.
-
- I used to use a commercial Ammonium Persulfate etch. It used a mercury
- compound as a catalyst and mercury is pretty poisonous. You might check
- the -persulfate etch you're using to see if it contains mercury.
-
- BTW, I was heating the etchant on the little lady's stove to speed the pro-
- cess...the dish broke spilling the persulfate all over the chrome-plated
- burner and instantly copper-plated it.
-
- Don Montgomery
- donrm@sr.hp.com
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