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I work for a company that handles chromium and nickel plating for the tool & die and medical industries, among others. We use hydrofluoric in an etch tank that also contains sulfuric acid and a few other catalysts. Every so often, we'll need to add a little of this or a little of that to maintain the appropriate concentrations of each chemical, but our accuracy is currently varified via the guess-n-check method: depending on how subsequent parts plate (or fail to), we can usually tell whether we need more or less of something. I would like to improve the accuracy and speed of this process by finding a way to specifically isolate the concentration levels of some of these chemicals, in this case the hydrofluoric. I do have a fairly extensive lab available to me, with a wide selection of reagents. Is there some simple testing a can do to obtain an accurate % per volume?
Re: How can I detect a specific amount of hydrofluoric acid in solution?
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