Content of Common Plating Salts


   

Name of Salt

Formula

Molecular wt

Percent Metal

Aluminum Chloride

AlCl3.H20

 151.34

11.1

Aluminum Chloride anhydrous

AlCl3

 133.34

20.3

Aluminum Sulfate

Al2(SO4)3 .18H20

 666.14

8.1

Pot Antimonyl tartrate   

KSbC4H4O7

324.92

37.47

Ammonium Chloride (% as Cl)

NH4Cl

53.5

66.28

Antimony trichloride 

SbCl3  

228.13

53.4

Antimony trifluoride

SbF3

178.6

68.1

Antimony trioxide

Sb2O3

291.52

83.50

Arsenic trioxide

As2O3

 197.82

75.74

Cadmium cyanide

Cd(CN)2

164.43 

68.4

Cadmium fluoborate 

Cd(BF4)2 

296.05

37.90

Cadmium nitrate

Cd(NO3)2

308.49

36.40

Cadmium oxide

CdO 

128.41

87.50

Cadmium sulfate

CdSO4 

208.47

54.00

Chromic Acid

CrO3

100.01

52

Copper Sodium Cyanide

Na2Cu(CN)3

 187.58

33.9

Copper Cyanide

CuCN

89.59

71.0

Copper Sulfate

CuSO4

249.71

25.5

Potassium Chloride (% as Cl)

KCl

74.55

47.56

Potassium Cyanide (% as CN)

KCN

65.11

39.95

Pot permanganate   

KMnO4

158.03

34.70

Silver Cyanide

AgCN

133.9

80.5

Sodium Cyanide (% as CN)

NaCN

49.02

53.08

Nickel Chloride

NiCl2.6H20

 237.71

24.7

Nickel Sulfate

NiSO4.6H2O

 262.87

22.3

Tin Sulfate

SnSO4

 214.77

55.3

Zinc ammonium chloride

ZnCl2-2(NH4CL)

243.29

26.90

Zinc chloride 

ZnCl2  

136.29

47.90

Zinc cyanide

Zn(CN)2

117.39

55.70

Zinc fluoborate  Zn(BF4)2  239.02  27.40
Zinc oxide ZnO 81.38  80.40

Zinc sulfate

ZnSO4-7(H2O) 287.56 22.80

 

 

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