Natural Science Forum / Chemistry / Electrochemistry / July 2007

I need to electroplate an Alkaline earth metal, namely Strontium 90. I
am trying to use a platinum electrode to electroplate the Strontium on
to a stainless steel planchet. My traditional solution does not seem
to be working. Does anyone have any adivce?

I currently have an application consisting of a solid state video
recorder in a watertight (peli) case with a 12 vdc battery pack.
In the longer term, we are looking to get a battery supplier to spec up
something for us (from a previous thread, lithium phosphate looks like a

Using a computer, would it be possible to construct a program
that sequentially simulates every type of electrochemical cell
possible and tests it for performance ? Working with roughly
60 possible chemical elements and allowing, say, 3 elements for