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Emeritus Professor David Allen, well-known PCM authority, consultant and specialist, has offered to share a few publications to illustrate the wide selection of industry-related publications available for download in the PCMI Online Library.
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Characterization of aqueous ferric chloride etchants used in industrial photochemical machining
David M. Allen* and Heather J.A. Almond
Ferric chloride (FeCl3) is the most commonly used etchant for photochemical machining (PCM) but there is a great variety in the grades of the commercial product. This paper aims at defining standards for industrial etchants (that are not chemically pure) and methods by which they are analyzed and monitored.
In an ideal world, to maintain a constant rate of etching and hence control of part dimensions dependent on etch time, the etchant composition would be constant. Unfortunately, in the real world, the etchant composition changes continuously. As an n-valent metal (M) is dissolved into solution, etchant is consumed and the by-products of ferrous chloride (FeCl2) and metal chlorides (MCln) are generated, i.e. Read More…
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