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- BQCADISMDOOEFD-UHFFFAOYSA-N silver Chemical compound [Ag] BQCADISMDOOEFD-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 30
- 229910052709 silver Inorganic materials 0.000 description 30
- 239000004332 silver Substances 0.000 description 30
- 238000000034 method Methods 0.000 description 18
- 239000000243 solution Substances 0.000 description 14
- 239000000126 substance Substances 0.000 description 10
- 239000003792 electrolyte Substances 0.000 description 8
- 238000007670 refining Methods 0.000 description 8
- PRKQVKDSMLBJBJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N Ammonium carbonate Chemical compound N.N.OC(O)=O PRKQVKDSMLBJBJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 6
- 239000001099 ammonium carbonate Substances 0.000 description 6
- 235000012501 ammonium carbonate Nutrition 0.000 description 6
- BVKZGUZCCUSVTD-UHFFFAOYSA-L Carbonate dianion Chemical compound [O-]C([O-])=O BVKZGUZCCUSVTD-UHFFFAOYSA-L 0.000 description 4
- 229910000004 White lead Inorganic materials 0.000 description 4
- QGZKDVFQNNGYKY-UHFFFAOYSA-O ammonium Chemical compound [NH4+] QGZKDVFQNNGYKY-UHFFFAOYSA-O 0.000 description 4
- CURLTUGMZLYLDI-UHFFFAOYSA-N carbon dioxide Chemical compound O=C=O CURLTUGMZLYLDI-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 4
- 239000001569 carbon dioxide Substances 0.000 description 4
- 229910002092 carbon dioxide Inorganic materials 0.000 description 4
- 150000001875 compounds Chemical class 0.000 description 4
- 238000005868 electrolysis reaction Methods 0.000 description 4
- 230000002195 synergetic Effects 0.000 description 4
- DVARTQFDIMZBAA-UHFFFAOYSA-O Ammonium nitrate Chemical compound [NH4+].[O-][N+]([O-])=O DVARTQFDIMZBAA-UHFFFAOYSA-O 0.000 description 2
- 229910000003 Lead carbonate Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 241001072332 Monia Species 0.000 description 2
- 241000282887 Suidae Species 0.000 description 2
- QTBSBXVTEAMEQO-UHFFFAOYSA-M acetate Chemical compound CC([O-])=O QTBSBXVTEAMEQO-UHFFFAOYSA-M 0.000 description 2
- 150000003868 ammonium compounds Chemical class 0.000 description 2
- 150000003863 ammonium salts Chemical class 0.000 description 2
- OKTJSMMVPCPJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N carbon Chemical compound [C] OKTJSMMVPCPJKN-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 229910052799 carbon Inorganic materials 0.000 description 2
- 230000000694 effects Effects 0.000 description 2
- 230000005611 electricity Effects 0.000 description 2
- 239000008151 electrolyte solution Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000012535 impurity Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000004615 ingredient Substances 0.000 description 2
- 239000007788 liquid Substances 0.000 description 2
- 238000004519 manufacturing process Methods 0.000 description 2
- NHNBFGGVMKEFGY-UHFFFAOYSA-N nitrate Chemical compound [O-][N+]([O-])=O NHNBFGGVMKEFGY-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
- 239000002244 precipitate Substances 0.000 description 2
- 238000002360 preparation method Methods 0.000 description 2
- 239000007787 solid Substances 0.000 description 2
- 150000004764 thiosulfuric acid derivatives Chemical class 0.000 description 2
- XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N water Substances O XLYOFNOQVPJJNP-UHFFFAOYSA-N 0.000 description 2
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C01—INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- C01G—COMPOUNDS CONTAINING METALS NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C01D OR C01F
- C01G21/00—Compounds of lead
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- C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
- C25—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; APPARATUS THEREFOR
- C25B—ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COMPOUNDS OR NON-METALS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
- C25B1/00—Electrolytic production of inorganic compounds or non-metals
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- This invention relates to an improved process for refining pig-lead containing silver as an impurity, and also to the simultaneous production of white lead by the use of electricity.
- I-Ieretofore lead has been desilvcrized principally by the cupellation process; but it is now generally admitted that the cupellation process cannot be economically carried on in the case of lead which contains less than eight ounces of silver to the ton.
- the usual process is to melt the lead and then allow it to cool until crystals of lead form. These crystals are then removed and the molten liquid that remains now contains the greater part of the silver. It is then cupelled in the ordinary way to obtain the silver, in the free state. It is obvious that methods similar to the above can only extract a certain proportion of the silver, and that they are attended with considerable expense in order to get out the last traces of the silver.
- the object of my invention is to completely desilverize lead and to obtain the silver pure in the solid metallic form, ready for the market, in one operation, and to simultaneously produce basic lead carbonate from the remaining lead.
- the chemical solution or electrolyte shall be composed of chemicals that will not decompose one another under the influence of the electric current.
- asolution composed of one quarter of a pound of ammonium nitrate and the same quantity of ammonium carbonate dissolved in one gallon of water Will best answer my purpose, although acetate of am monium and the carbonate of ammonium in similar proportions Will answer as Well.
Description
. TURNER n. 1391"OM J, OFIIOOSIQKtNEW on 1;, ASSIGNOR 'ro oI-INB. TIBBITS, or SAME PLACE.
PROCESS OF 'DESILVERlZING LEAD-BY, user-Rowers.-
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 442,661, dated December 16, 1890.- Application filed January 2, 1890. Serial No. 335,732. (No specimens.)
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, TURNER D. Bo'rToME, a citizen of the United States and a resident of Hoosick, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Process of Desilverizing Lead by Electrolysis, of which the following is a specification.
This invention relates to an improved process for refining pig-lead containing silver as an impurity, and also to the simultaneous production of white lead by the use of electricity.
I-Ieretofore lead has been desilvcrized principally by the cupellation process; but it is now generally admitted that the cupellation process cannot be economically carried on in the case of lead which contains less than eight ounces of silver to the ton. For refining lead containing only a small quantity of silver, the usual process is to melt the lead and then allow it to cool until crystals of lead form. These crystals are then removed and the molten liquid that remains now contains the greater part of the silver. It is then cupelled in the ordinary way to obtain the silver, in the free state. It is obvious that methods similar to the above can only extract a certain proportion of the silver, and that they are attended with considerable expense in order to get out the last traces of the silver.
The object of my invention is to completely desilverize lead and to obtain the silver pure in the solid metallic form, ready for the market, in one operation, and to simultaneously produce basic lead carbonate from the remaining lead.
My objects are obtained in the following manner: It being known that lead carbonate is insoluble in adilute solution of ammonium carbonate, while silver, on the other hand, is soluble in the same. Hence an electrolyte that will dissolve bot-h lead and silver by the use of an electric current, and one that is synergistic to a chemical such as ammonium carbonate will accomplish the purpose.
In order to carry my invention into practical effect, it is necessary that the chemical solution or electrolyte shall be composed of chemicals that will not decompose one another under the influence of the electric current.' I have found that asolution composed of one quarter of a pound of ammonium nitrate and the same quantity of ammonium carbonate dissolved in one gallon of water Will best answer my purpose, although acetate of am monium and the carbonate of ammonium in similar proportions Will answer as Well. There are other solutions that may be used for ac complishing the same result; butthey all de- I ATENT I rFIcE,
pend on a chemical that will precipitate lead and yet dissolve silver in the presenceof carbon' dioxide. Ammonium compounds do this in the highest degree, although the soluble thio-sulphates have the same action. Taking, for example, a solution composed, as above described, of carbonate and nitrate of am monia and immersing therein pigs of lead connected, as anodes, to the terminals of an electrical generator and having suitable cathodes, also electrically connected and immersed in the solution, upon the passage of an electric current the leaden anodesaredissolved, the lead and silver both going into the solution, but the lead is immediately precipitated by the presence of free carbon dioxide, which is continually injected into the bath during the working of the process. The silver instead of being precipitated is deposited in the metallic state upon the cathodes.
I do not limit myself to the exact proportions of the ingredients used to prepare the electrolyte, nor do I limit myself to any particular chemical compounds in the preparation of the same.
hat I claim as my invention is as follows:
1. The process of refining lead, consisting in subjecting argentiferous lead to electrolysis while immersed in an electrolyte composed of ammonium salts kept saturated With car= bon dioxide, substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. The process of refining lead containing silver, consisting in electrolytically dissolving thesaid lead in an electrolytic solution composed of ammonium or synergistic compounds dissolved in waterand kept saturated rent while they are immersed in a solution having a chemical affinity for both silver and lead, but whiclrprecipitates lead when saturated with carbon dioxide, substantially as described.
Signed at Hoosick, in the county of Bells-- selaer and State of New York, this 31st day 20 of December, A. D. 1889.
TURNER D. BOTTOME.
itnesses:
GEO. II. MYERS, D. V. J ONES.
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