“…8 Despite the high reliability of the cyanide plating process, its excellent throwing power and the high quality of the deposits that can obtained by this approach, the use of this type of bath is progressively declining owing to the competition of systematically improved CN 2 -free chemistries. In fact, intensive studies of CN 2 -free electrolytes have been in progress over the last few decades; much of this work has been centred on the following ligands: ammonia with EDTA, 9 citrate, 10 ethylamine, 11 ferrocyanide-thiocyanate, 12,13 iodide, 14 methanesulfonate, 15,16 sulphite, 17,18 tartrate, 19 thiocyanate with ammonia, 20 thiosulfate, [21][22][23][24][25] thiourea, 26,27 uracil. 28 Some workers 10,28 claim to have achieved the capability of plating thick, mirror-bright silver from CN 2 -free electrolytes.…”