How To Grow Copper Crystals with Electricity
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2014
- Join the science discord! / discord Growing your own pure copper crystals is very easy.
You only need the following:
-A suitable container (flat walls are better, you can observe the growth better!)
-Copper Sulfate.
-A power supply. 5 volts or less is best! You can even do this with a few batteries in parallel!
HAVING PROBLEMS? see below.
I got my power supply at a computer store, it was from an old computer and cost $1. I used 3.3v.
If your having trouble, try decreasing the concentration of the solution, this reduces the amps drawn, and the crystals should grow slower. You can also add things like sulfuric acid to the mix, that works for some people! - Розваги
A timelapse would have been really cool to watch, could you make a video of that?
+DeusPayne exactly what I was thinking
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@@Deus_Payne yes
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Big fan of your video's. Great video editing and very interesting!
Finally, a chemist who actually does this large scale! Great job!
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@@mountain-roots You don't think that coral reefs are mother natures coral reefs..?
Great experiment! Love the cat, it's so cuuute!
This would be amazing to watch in time-lapse video.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful!
You did a great job
The growth of these copper crystals are a Mandelbrot Set in physical form . Amazing man.
nice job !!! :-) Thank you !
Such humble beginnings.
Very cool! Loved the video!
CarsonGames Thanks!
lucky lucky
Nice video, yours are always a pleasure to watch.
One thing: The anode is negative, and the cathode is positive.
Nah m8 sorre but the boss in the video said it good
hygkolk u wot m8
Thanks, I appreciate it!!
***** Time lapse this :)
I have reduced the voltage futher and still the crystal grew rapidly and weak. I diluted the Copper Sulfate solution and now the crystal is growing much slower, looks nicer and is stronger than all previous attempts. I thought about decreasing the concentration of the solution after seeing CuSO4 crystals forming at the bottom of the container. I produced the solution electrochemically with battery acid and copper electrodes. I found that if any of your electrodes bubble, you need to decrease the voltage until you can no longer see bubbles. The bubbles are caused when you deposit too many electrons at the negative electrode and there are not enough copper ions nearby to accept them, so they are donated to the water and produce hydrogen, this is know as "burning".
can you shareil your experiment detail?
its really weird hearing his voice this quiet and calm compared to more recent videos 🤣
oh please, can you do a time lapse of that ? :D it could be so great :)
Thanks, finally a "How To" video that explains how to do it.
My cat liked looking at your crystal too!
Wow this guy changed a lot!
Cute cat!
did that single hair piss anyone else off at 2:30?
Not pissed but just giggled that his cat wanted to be in the video SOMEWHERE!
woa... it grew cat hair on it to??!! science is nuts!!
rollinggoronable copper (ii) sulfate is very rich in keratin.
If you place a flat stainless steel as a cathode you could make some nice flat copper.
Cool!!!
your cat is so pretty! i had a gray tabby kitten who's pelt was so light gray it was almost white, he had black toes, black ears and amber eyes, his name was Sprocket, but he got hit by a car a 4 months old.
Nice man. i have once boubt how may days taken for this formation.
Nice vid mate... And any Feline friend is ok by me :) Just love cat's.
***** Thanks! And thanks for sticking around my channel :)
+TheBackyardScientist hi ya, where did you get your power supply at? thanks so much :)
+TheBackyardScientist also what did you find the ideal volt/amps were :) thanks so much :)
+paleo Geology I used a computer power supply, i got it from a computer repair shop for $1.
The ideal voltage was 3.3v. It can put out 25 amps. the concentration of the copper sulfate determines how much current is drawn. I used around 60gm/liter.
@@TheBackyardScientist my copper groth seems to not bond. It stays mostly dusty and falls apart when i try taking it out. Do you have any ideas?
cool crystal
Thanks!
also the liquid left over from the solution after all copper has been collected from the solution is diluted sulphuric acid
Very cool video, the audio was too quiet on this one; a bit like listening to NPR.
Your cat is beautiful.
What is this? Are you an imposter? No fire, death rays? nothing blew up? Still got a thumbs up.
It’s called electrogalvanization and I did this at my school science fair
The cat is the real scientist
amazing! What about silver nitrate? ...or some form of chromium?
Do the copper crystals retain their color ? Are they brown , they might have turn green on reaction with oxygen , check your crystal
I wish u would have posted the amperage on screen bc if u said it, I was to busy being in awe of the crystals. Just like your cat aperently.
I used a 3volt battery and a petri dish full of copper sulfate for a small scale test but the crystal has taken 3 days and only grew 1/3 of a centimeter I did check my battery which died but I just wanna check if I'm doing anything wrong because made one wire longer and a shorter receiving wire in hopes of a branching out triangle and then I plan on setting in acrylic resin to keep it safe.
***** You deserve more viewers with videos like these!
your cat is soooooo cute
I am watching this because winning copper (or other metal) by electrolysis seems (for me as layman) a option for long term energy storage. It's at least without any doubt much easier to store copper than store then hydrogen produced by electrolysis. But how do you win back electricity out of a lot of this dendrites copper stuff, that's the tricky part ;-) ?
neat
just tried again and same results as before. I noticed that my crystal seems to grow faster than the one in the video grows. perhaps that's a reason for my crystals being very soft?
Hi i need some help i have a computer thing (sorry don't now the name PT) that passes the current i modified it to use it has a powerstation a long ago it work but now when i turn it on it turns off any sugestion?Sorry for my bad english i'm Portuguese ☺
Of course the cat likes it!
It looks like coral. You should do a time lapse.
Do you put your negative wire on your cathode and your positive wire on you anode?? Also what type of inpure copper do you use?? Could you give us alittle more detailed instructions, also where did you get your power supply? Very cool video though, you are awesome :)
Maybe actually watch the video with the volume on
What are your thoughts on using a microwave transformer and 30gal glass tank?
? how do u make your Copper Crystal not fall apart. ive been trying afew time. any tips ?
i made a solar panel with LEDs and one side is the negative and the other is positive and in the middle its the negative and positive please teach me how this works and how the positive and negative are different
I like your cat.
Were there more copper there after, did the weight increase, or stay the same, because then this is a morphology experiment then growing
my crystals always turn out very soft and even fall apart whilst they are forming. I have tried lots of different voltages between 3 and 20v. the resistance of the cell is 0.73ohm
how was this 5 years ago??
Do a freeze acid and put it in molten aluminum
Can you put a link too a power supply u got in having trouble finding one with 5 volts
👍🏻
I say you should make a air pressure cannon that shoots fireballs
I tried diluting it by pouring out half of the solution and then filling up with water. So far it has stopped bubbles at the cathode. But I'm getting bubbles from the anode now, very slowly, and they are stopping at various levels inside the liquid, as if caught by something. It's really weird.
Can you make gold crystals from computer parts using the same method?
Yes.
Would this work with aluminum? The hardware store I got my copper cable at also had some aluminum-core cable.
I tried it and it works but my crystals are very thin en break very easily. I used various solutions, 7,5%, 10% and 30% but not one of them looks anything like yours. You are using a thick copper wire as an anode, is it important to have a large surface area for the anode? Or do you know anything you did differently as me?
Can you use copper acetate as a substitute for copper sulphate?
I'm surprised just a dip in tap water and an air dry was enough to get off all the CuSO4. Whenever I've done just that without a base rinse followed by distilled water wash, I get oxidation within a couple days.
AHollowVoiceSaysFool try spraying it with wd40
Hey, could you tell me what was the power supply parameters you used? I used a 3v 1amp source but my crystals turn out really powdery and fragile. I've tried changing the concentration of the copper sulphate solution. Would appreciate your help.
perhaps lower voltage and higher amperage, and how about you use distilled water to put your sulfate crystals in?
Did you find a solution to your Problem?
@@finn3300 he used a 12V@16A power supply, which equals maximum 192W output. i think it may be because OP used a 3W power supply, which is 64 times less powerful
what strength copper sulphate solution did you use?
i.e. molarity
is there any way to get a layer of blue on the outside to get a blue crystal?
For everyone asking why the water is blue. It's not just water. It's copper sulfate (white/grey powder) plus water. Copper sulfate pentahydrate is bright blue, so I'm guessing H2O and copper sulfate combine to produce this and this is what causes the water to become blue? But maybe he just added food coloring for some reason (I'd assume not though, since this could have an affect on the growing of the crystals).
Garrett Day it's just CuSo4 and probably distilled water. Copper ions are blue.
interesting
Where can I buy copper sulfate and for how much? Also, will this oxidize or just plain wear out? Is there any way to stop that? What is it?
these questions have answers, why don't you ask how to get to them? ah, that's right, you want to gulp it down mindlessly.
I wonder if you could do something similar with gold. That would be really cool.
+POVadventure yes you can, but its a different process and way cooler! Basically you heat up gold until it boils, and it condenses into a crystal form www.periodictable.com/Samples/079.18/s13.JPG
+TheBackyardScientist Could you do a video on that?
+MTreece He'd have to get his hands on gold. That's not so easy as copper.
+TheBackyardScientist Interesting video, What you are basically doing is electroplating without the item to plate. You can try to electro plate some items and post a video it would be good to see. You know what would be really cool as well a time lapse video of it growing. You can download some scripts for your camera and have it take a picture every 5-10 minutes then compile it in a video editor. I would like to see something like that.
***** Ive seen it done with silver but the crystals are very small and fragile.
Where did you get that thick copper wire? And how did you shape it?
seabe2345 hardware store and you can coil it with pliers. Copper is very pliable.
All these bubbles are stopping half way up the solution, just sitting there in one horizontal plane. What is going on???
Can you make a salt crystals
Looks like coral
i almost subscribed until i saw the cat
I don't get it, I'm trying this with a 1.5V battery, and it just produces weak crystals, gunge, and a lot of bubbles.....?
your cat I so cute
do you have the link to the diagram you used?
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i have a variable power supply. what is the best amount of amps to use?
also how long does it take for a viable(won't just break apart) crystal to form?
looks like coral
Is it possible to kinda mass produce this and then sell the copper for money, or is the copper not valuable enough to do this and make money reliably?
Better question... does your input investment exceed your output copper?
so it you smelted it into an ingot, would it still be considered pure.
Jacobm2002 it may have some impurities, but it's basically pure copper.
i seen a dung beetle do it once out of dog poop- you mean you never seen a geode
I have that kind of cat
What I'm doing wrong when copper doesn't get anywhere?
Hello,How Mutch kan you produce and how mutch per pices PLS
Pure AF....
How to grow diamond crystals
that is way to hard for him and way to expencive (only can realy be done by some one with skill and a lot of money)
and someone with a microwave as a supply of graphite :P
lil keithbell
Step 1: find some coal
Step 2: crush it over some lava
Step 3: enjoy
What gauge of wire did you use?
Soo to make copper you have to have copper?
Please re-visit this and time laps it
When I look for copper sulfate here in the Netherlands I have two choices, copper sulfate pentahydrate and copper sulfate water free. What is the difference and which one will work the best? The water free one is more expensive..
+Joep Swagemakers
The cheapest one. Anytime you see the word "hydrate" it just means that a water molecule is stuck onto it somewhere. "penta" is derived from the Greek word for 5. So copper sulphate penta hydrate is just one molecule of copper sulphate with 5 water molecules stuck onto it.
When you add dry copper sulphate to water, the first thing that happens is that water molecules will surround it as it disperses into the water, so no matter which of the two you use, you will get the same kind of blue colored solution.
Try to think of it as making coffee with powdered milk versus making coffee with natural liquid milk. The natural liquid milk already has water in it, while the powdered milk is dry. So to make a coffee with powdered milk, you need more water in your cup, and only a little bit of powdered milk. Liquid milk already has water "stuck" onto it, so you need more liquid milk, and less water in your cup.
You will find when you do your calculations about how much the 5 water molecules weigh per molecule and how much actual copper sulphate you get for your money, that the copper sulphate pentahydrate is usually much much cheaper, especially when bought as a gardening product as a root killer.
Of course if you go to a gardening shop in Beverly Hills where the pentahydrate comes in a gold container and the shop assistant gives you a bottle of champagne as soon as you walk in, then it might be more expensive, but generally speaking, pentahydrate is the better way to go for normal people.
Wow thanks for the clear explanation! This will also help for future references with other projects. It generally just means that the sulfate is more concentrated. Thanks again!
looks like a coral
cats love crystals
is so cite
a potato flew around my room before you came 😂
Can i use copper nitrate?
You are gona make sulfuric acid tho