Inventors:
Adam Heller - Bridgewater NJ
Barry Miller - Murray Hill NJ
Richard George Vadimsky - Somerville NJ
Assignee:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated - Murray Hill NJ
International Classification:
C25D 350, C01B 902
Abstract:
The ruthenium compound [Ru. sub. 2 N(H. sub. 2 O). sub. 2 Cl. sub. 8 ]K. sub. 3 is prepared by refluxing a mixture of hydrated water soluble ruthenium chloride, having approximately 40% ruthenium content, and sulphamic acid, the latter having approximately half the molar concentration of the former, for several hours and then precipitating the desired compound by adding solutions of potassium chloride and hydrochloric acid. Electrical contacts on the reeds of sealed reed switches produced by electroplating from an aqueous solution of the salt produced in this manner are found to be particularly resistant to the thermal shock involved in the sealing of the switches.