Part III

(CONTINUED)

PRACTICAL

CONSIDERATIONS

and
SPECIFIC

INFORMATION
on the

ELECTRODEPOSITION

of
ALLOYS

T H E REMAINDER OF this treatise deals with the practical aspects of the electrodeposition of alloys. However, frequent reference is made to the theoretical
concepts treated in Parts I and II. This treatise covers only the electrodeposition
of alloys from aqueous solutions. T h e electrodeposition of alloys from fused
salt baths and from organic solutions is not included, nor is the production of
alloys by the thermal interdiifusion of two separately deposited metallic coatings.
Some borderline subjects, such as the deposition of black nickel and the deposition of electroless nickel, are not included.
The grouping of the alloys into chapters for the purpose of discussion and
the order of treatment has been governed more by expediency and convenience
rather than by a set rule. For example, lead-tin and tin-zinc plating are treated
first and in separate chapters, since they are among the most important alloy
plating processes. The various alloys could not be conveniently grouped into
the five different classes of alloy plating systems, since a given alloy might be
depositable from more than one type of plating system; for example, tin-zinc
can be deposited from both regular and irregular alloy plating systems. Most
alloys are grouped together under the heading of that parent metal which was
the most difficult to deposit, since the difficulties associated with the deposition
of this parent metal usually was the overriding consideration in the deposition
of the alloys; for example, all manganese alloys are discussed in one chapter.
Little information is given on the analyses of baths or alloys, and the chemistry
of the complex ions in the plating baths has not been treated at any length,
because this information is available in textbooks on electrodeposition. Short
literature surveys are given for those alloys which are of special importance and
for which the literature is so large that the most important contributions are
difficult to discern.