Copper plate is often used as a prep step for plating other metals, such as nickel and silver ... and turning the solution blue. The next step is to clean the material to be plated.
The results of our study indicate the prevalence of nickel in metal blue-jean buttons to be 16% in the 62 pairs of new and preworn pairs of jeans tested for nickel release with the DMG kit.
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