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Kinetics And Mechanisms Of Gold And Silver Dissolution In Cyanide Solution, Fathi Habashi Mar 1967

Kinetics And Mechanisms Of Gold And Silver Dissolution In Cyanide Solution, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

The dissolution of gold and silver in cyanide solution is an oxidation–reduction process in which cyanide ion forms a strong complex with Au+ or Ag+ ions and the reduction of oxygen on the surface of metal may take place partially to the hydrogen peroxide stage or completely to hydroxyl ion.