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Stripping of IVD Aluminum

Thread starter swall
Start date Mar 1, 2007

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Mar 1, 2007

swall

Materials

I am considering the use of a caustic bath to strip IVD aluminum from a high strength steel substrate and was wondering about hydrogen embrittlement. I know caustics generally will not cause a problem with high stength steel, but was thinking that with the evolved hydrogen from the aluminum there might be an issue.