EPhantom Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 So I am not very good in chemistry, but I have been wanting to find a way to recycle circuit boards, and I would love help to find an efficient way to do this. To what I understand, the primary metals in circuit boards (dependent on location) are:coppertinleadsilvergoldaluminum With trace amounts of (to what I have heard)platinumpalladium Other moleculesbromine, Phosphorus, and siliconresin (for solder work)carbonceramicsplasticsfiber glass"cyanate ester"Teflon and probably a bunch more that I can't think of =/ The primay goal of this project is to be able to find a way to recycle circuitboards so that heavy metals and such don't get dumped into land fills, and so that we don't have to re-mine all the resources over and over. The things I would worry about the most would be the plastics, teflon, metals, silicon, bromine, phosphorus, and cyanate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawcat Posted February 19, 2011 Report Share Posted February 19, 2011 I would think the primary reason would be to extract gold. http://www.ehow.com/how_4843105_extract-gold-computer-circuit-boards.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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