Separating Gold And Silver Coin Community Forum
#0183;#32;Yes, nitric acid will dissolve silver but not gold. The trick that makes this effective though is to have a very small particle size, so that you don''t have a lot of silver occluded by large gold particles. A particle of silver wrapped in gold will not dissolve in nitric acid and will contaminate the final product. Because of this, the sample must be ground to as fine a powder as possible prior to acid leaching to