Gold Liquid

5
Aug/100

Liquid that puts a Gold Plating on base metals without using electricity.Where can I buy it please?

I used to see little bottles of liquid that would put a Gold plating on other metals.Can anyone tell me where I can buy it now,preferably on internet.
Thanks in advance.

Electroplating requires electricity but metal deposition coating and electroless plating methods do not.
The Brashear Process is a means of coating glass, plastics, or metals with silver and requires no electricity.
It uses a carefully prepared solution of silver nitrate and ammonia.
It was the method of choice for both profressional and amateur telescopes before vacuum coating with aluminium became common, and is still in use.
http://iopscience.iop.org/0950-7671/28/3/302;jsessionid=185977A7248EB9CC76361EA7B79E9BEC.c2 . .

Gold plating solutions can be hazardous and some cannot be sent by normal post. Many contain cyanides.
http://www.americangoldplating.com/goldplatingchemicals.htm . . . . . .
The process is similar to silver coating, using a solution of the metal salt, normally gold chloride, and a reducing agent.
http://www.finishing.com/184/71.shtml . . . . . .
Electroless gold plating.
http://www.pfonline.com/articles/019803.html . . . . .
http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_e/latest_research/2008/20081105_2/20081105_2.html . . . .
Here are some suppliers.
http://www.chemicalregister.com/Electroless_Gold_Plating_Chemicals/Suppliers/pid26700.htm . . . .