Q. The electrolytes usually used in the electroplating of gold and silver, respectively, are

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Solution:

Amine complexes of gold are not stable, so, they cannot be used as a solvent.Moreover, in electroplating with silver, silver cyanide is used as electrolyte because the cyanide ion, , reacts with silver ion, to form the complex ion . This produces a silver and more adherent silver plating.

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