Chemical Bath

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Size	16x30
Where	Compound

Overview

A chemical bath is used to treat metal.

Source

This building becomes available after you have learned the Basic Metal Treatment tech.

Cost

• 300 Hard Rotproof Fireproof Treated Boards
• 2 Distillation Coil, 7500+ Quality
• 20 Fine Glass Pipe
• 200 Nails
• 40 Bolts
• 80 Washer
• 20 Steel Sheeting
• 20 Iron Bars
• 100 Canvas
• 10 Tar
• 50 Copper Pipe
• 2 Thermometer

Built in a Compound. Uses 16x30 cells.

Use

The bath must be filled with 100 Acid before it can be used. Most folks would consider making 100 Acid non-trivial. So, you don't want to lose it. The menu choice "Empty the Bath" will dump the Acid, and it will be lost. You could then take whatever metal is in the bath, but you'll need to refill the bath with Acid before you can make a new batch.

Preferably, though, you have Tongs. If you do, after treating your metal, use the menu choice "Take Everything". That will preserve the Acid and put the treated metal in your inventory.

Can treat up to 100 metal at a time.

Metal Salt Contamination

When you use Salts of Metal to plate a metal, you contaminate your acid (note that you do not contaminate your acid if you use Salts of Metal to increase purity; presumably all the salts are deposited on the work piece in that case). If your acid is contaminated with one kind of metal, it prevents you from plating with a different kind. There are two solutions for this problem. One option is to have multiple Chemical Baths, one for each kind of plating you need to do (expensive), OR you can very easily clean up your acid after you plate a batch of metal (cheap). Note: do the cleanup right after the treatment as the key is knowing how many seconds of treatment was done.

• Use 1 db of a different metal and treat it with the same number of seconds as the original treatment with any salt other than the original salt and other than a salt of the metal that you are using to clean the acid.
• After the treatment, the tank should be salt neutral and should not be listed as having any salt in it.
• Remove the 1 db of metal and you should now have a "Salt-free" tank.

For example, your plating treatment was 20 seconds of Salts of Gold. To clean the acid, add 1 db of any metal other than gold, such as copper. Treat the copper with 20 seconds of any salt that isn't gold or copper, such as Salts of Iron.

Info

Reaction Table

Treatment	Tensility	Lustre	Strength	Corrosion	Conductivity	Toxicity	Purity	Plating
Arsenic	16	64	48	8	48	72	8	56
Cabbage Juice	32	16	0	64	56	24	8	16
Cactus Sap	40	48	72	24	8	0	8	16
Coal	8	0	64	32	24	32	8	40
Gravel	56	72	24	16	0	40	8	16
Lime	72	40	56	40	16	8	8	16
Potash	64	56	32	0	32	48	8	16
Salt	24	32	8	56	72	16	8	24
Saltpeter	48	8	40	72	40	64	8	16
Sulfur	0	24	16	48	64	56	8	16

Starting values

Treatment	Tensility	Lustre	Strength	Corrosion	Conductivity	Toxicity	Purity	Plating
Aluminum	22	38	38	23	30	31	54	4
Antimony	20	43	37	36	14	29	54	4
Brass	25	43	31	43	31	29	54	4
Bronze	25	40	35	43	31	29	54	4
Copper	28	43	44	58	32	36	54	4
Gold	22	54	51	36	30	29	54	4
Iron	36	29	41	36	18	29	54	4
Lead	16	14	24	36	12	50	54	4
Lithium	14	29	29	43	37	29	54	4
Magnesium	19	29	37	22	24	36	54	4
Metal Blue	37	43	52	61	59	29	54	4
Moon Steel	21	29	34	36	25	29	54	4
Pewter	19	36	29	36	13	43	54	4
Platinum	33	56	40	37	19	30	54	4
Silver	23	47	36	50	32	29	54	4
Steel	35	43	45	36	20	29	54	4
Strontium	16	36	30	36	16	36	54	4
Sun Steel	19	60	40	37	28	30	54	4
Thoth's Metal	46	36	53	58	15	43	54	4
Tin	19	36	26	36	17	29	54	4
Titanium	26	43	43	36	61	29	54	4
Tungsten	57	22	52	47	23	36	54	4
Water Metal	16	47	30	36	36	29	54	4
Zinc	25	22	40	29	22	29	54	4