Precious Metals Precipitants

Originally Posted by dewndoj

I have learned of the aqua regia method of dissolving gold, silver, and platinum out of electronic scrap, and know I have to use precipitants to extract the precious metals, but I have not been able to find out if there are different precipitants for EACH kind of metal, and if so, is there any sort of order to extract all the different kinds of metal out of the acid bath??

Dude, you better know what the heck you are doing messing around with all this chemical.