This method enables someone to purify silver using only electrical current and acetic acid.
For this one’s need: A glass dish, a power supply, some electrical wire, an electrode, and your unpure silver
for this experiment we used a long strip of unpure silver as to not complicate the setup the electrode used was a pure silver electrode the inpurities will plate on this metal as pure copper for example, a good idea would be to enclose the electrode which would give higher purity.
So on one side of the dish you will have the electrode suspended in the water, connected to one side of the power supply. On the other side the unpure silver strip connected in a similar fashion to the power supply. You will quickly see which of the two start reacting and disintegrating it should be the unpure silver, if it isn’t you can swap the polarity of your power supply by changing the connections around.
Here’s the idea, whilst the unpure silver is disintegrating you will notice that the silver does not go into the solution, instead it stays suspended out of solution as a white solid, the copper inpurities however do react with the solution to form copper acetate which intern precipitate as pure copper on the electrode. Such contaminant should absolutely be filtered off as they will ruin the yields, as such the electrode should be somewhat segregated from the rest of the solution.
This is where I am at, I have collected the white dust resulting from the experiment, I yet have to clean it and to melt it to get a % purity, the starting purity was 80%.
Thanks for reading, have a great day ! ~Merle Industries