Dissolving Ceramic With Acid

Porcelain one of the stronger ceramics won t really react with any acid except hf hydrofluoric acid as you see in breaking bad.

Dissolving ceramic with acid.

Aluminium or light alloy e g. A liquid free flowing flux which can dissolve the ceramic is only one part of a successful smelt albeit a big part. Elemental fluorine is produced from it. Molten naoh for more multiple material and for more precise stuff i use either 70 hf or the same with adding sulfuric acid and the more cruel and devastating way being molten oxone there are some disadvantages of the last.

The time depended on the. There are many types of ceramics. It is commonly used to etch glass and silicon. Hydrofluoric acid is a solution of hydrogen fluoride hf in water solutions of hf are colourless acidic and highly corrosive it is used to make most fluorine containing compounds.

Examples include the commonly used pharmaceutical antidepressant medication fluoxetine prozac and the material ptfe teflon. I need to dissolve ceramic shell from a bronze cast and i was wondering if there is a liquid solution available to remove the remaining shell. I am a student and the sandblaster is currently being repaired so i am looking for a solution to this. Stronger acids such as fluoroantimonic acid might be able to dissolv.

From my experience we needed to dissolve etched alumina on top of aluminum.