Kishan, Can you provide a reference for this data? Could you have this solution confused with 1 part HCl with 3 parts HNO3? That is what most people refer to as aqua regia, and I believe that it does etch Nickel at an appreciable rate. Neal Kishan Gupta wrote:Aqua Regia, (KI + I2), etched Nickel at approximately 100 nm/min in past experiments. -- Kishan Gupta EECS Undergraduate, U.C. Berkeley At 11:47 AM 9/9/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Does this solution (KI(Potassium iodide)+I2(Iodine)+Water) Etch Nickel? > >Fabbi. >_______________________________________________ >MEMS-talk@memsnet.org mailing list: to unsubscribe or change your list >options, visit http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/mems-talk >Hosted by the MEMS Exchange, providers of MEMS processing services. >Visit us at http://www.memsnet.org/ _______________________________________________ MEMS-talk@memsnet.org mailing list: to unsubscribe or change your list options, visit http://mail.mems-exchange.org/mailman/listinfo/mems-talk Hosted by the MEMS Exchange, providers of MEMS processing services. Visit us at http://www.memsnet.org/ --------------------------------- Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost