How to Dissolve US Nickels (H2SO4 method)
In this video, we will dissolve US nickels using sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide.
US nickels consist of 75% copper and 25% nickel by mass. Because both of these metals are too unreactive to dissolve in H2SO4 alone, we need to add H2O2 to oxidize the metals and allow them to dissolve in the acid.
This is quite a beautiful reaction, with a lovely blue-green solution being produced, but it can also provide you with a useful source of nickel metal. I am currently working on isolating the nickel metal from the solution, so keep an eye out for that video.
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This is more fully explained at the Tresury.gov page: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-cen...
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