Influence of surface activation using titanium phosphate prior to Zn phosphate

By using the titanium package prior to the zinc phosphate, the titanium actually helps promote more of a starting "landing conversion point site" for the zinc phosphate conversion coating on a clean part. This allows a more controlled formation of the zinc phosphate as compared to a larger yet fewer zinc crystal conversion coating on a application that would not use the titanium package. Zinc crystal deposition rate and quality of the conversion coating is greatly enhanced in most cases with a smaller denser conversion coat as compared to a larger irregular shaped conversion coat.

Crap! This is pretty esoteric stuff! Do you work in plating? Do many customers try to plate metal over rubber?

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Are you saying that the Titanium provides more nucleation sites for the Zn to crystalize on and therefore the reaction will proceed quicker limiting the Zn Crystal size?