Hi IRstuff:
Thanks for the reply.
No, it is not a plating defect he is referring to. That's the first thing I pointed out... so called "pin holes"… or pits, in the plating... when there are defects. No.. he is insisting that there are actual tiny pores in bulk gold. In fact he thinks they are...
Hi ALL:
I am working with gold plating, over Ni, on Cu... standard stuff. But, I ran into an engineer who insists that gold plating is porous, or more exactly, gold itself is porous. As far as I know, that is not the case. But, he insists that since Hg gets absorbed by gold: the Hg moves into...
