Re: gold chloride help


Philippe Monnoyer (Philippe.Monnoyer@ulg.ac.be)
Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:48:38 +0100


At 15:41 8/03/99 -0500, you wrote:
>hello all
>
>a friend of mine find a shop which sell him gold chloride at a good price,
>as I was interrested I ask him the formula of this gold chloride and he
>give me this: Na(AuCl4)+NaCl2 H2O
>I don't know if this gold chloride his good for process as ziatype as I
>think it was AuCl4H.aq or HAuCl4.aq cas 16903-35-8
>please can someone tell me what's the good gold formula.

The formula you got seems to be a mixing of normal dihydrated sodium
tetrachloroaurate. The problem is "+NaCl" which means that you have an
unknow ratio of undesired salt (NaCl) in your gold chloride. If this ratio
is 50% you'd better not buy that "mixing" at a high price.

Philippe

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