What plating salt is better for nickel plating?
August 14, 2009 I tried silver nitrate for easy and quick plating and its too dull.I want to know if potassium ferricyanide disolves silver metal as it dissolves silver on potographing paper.and for easy homemade solution which salt would be best to use to plate nickel. nickel oxide vs. nickel sulfate David Castillo hobbyist – Abilene, Texas, U.S.A. August 17, 2009 Hi, David. Please be careful about using chemicals that you have little understanding of. There are hazards all about. But you can electroplate nickel out of nickel sulfate; you can’t plate it out of nickel oxide because it’s insoluble, meaning you’ll have no (actually very very little) nickel in solution. Regards, Ted Mooney, P.E.
