But if the Conquistadors were encroaching, and looking for gold… History lesson really. Almost an introductory class on metal refinery, and chemistry. So fascinating, yours truly; Huge fan of your channel. 🙏❤️🖼️
I think the ions were free moving ( not bound) once the salt was suspended in fluid. So, I guess it would have been electrically conductive ( prior to adding the SMB ) Probably the metal detector coil measures ( senses) electrical conductance sorta because the conductive solution would interfere / interrupt the magnetic flux within the detector coil of wire which has only a small voltage and current enough to maintain a minimal continuity without having the coil collapse or rather without the magnetic flux being reabsorbed back into the coil wire. I dunno 🤔
@@anthonyrstrawbridge most metal detectors operate by detecting the eddy currents created by the inductance of metallics moving within a magnetic field. A simple demonstration of this, attach a voltmeter to a wire coil and see voltage on the coil when you pass a magnet near it.
You’re a modern day alchemist I know you are not making gold. It’s just fascinating to see it go from a solid to a liquid and back to solid again, this is my favorite channel, you do a great job Mr. Streetips.
Alchemy is the art of profiting off magic of turning low value to high value. Not Harry Potter fantasy magic; Penn and Teller Fool Us magic. Alchemy is about lying to people and making money from it using chemistry or any other manipulative means. This is chemistry not alchemy. This is science degree (chemistry) versus art degree (lying).
But its a pretty valid point! I would bet any alchemists from the past would have their mind blown by the processes hes using! I would say this is about as close as humans can get to true alchemy!
The last time I dropped gold from solution, I took your tip of chilling the solution first. But I did it a bit differently. Rather than putting ice into the solution, I placed the beaker containing the solution into another container holding ice in brine, much like the old crank ice cream making machines. Worked wonderfully. Was probably much colder than using ice directly.
Remember, the SMB produces SO2 gas which precipitates the gold. When you dump the SMB on the surface of the ice raft all the SO2 gas just goes into the air without reacting with the solution. Might try mixing the SMB in water before adding with these huge gold volumes. Or constant stirring might help.
i think the 'vlf?' detector (and most of them)usually function with a sweeping motion to induce the signal to the coil better ... like your making a current with a generator, sweep the coil over the metal ...
Yep! It reminds me of ( visualize) gyroscopic precession. The magnetic flux mostly being at a right angle to the conductive wire coil until a force ( potential) interrupts it.
Well, now I know what to do if I need to hide my gold from a metal detector. This was an awesome experiment. I was gpoing to replicate the process, but sadly don't have 50 OZT of spare gold. Or the chemicals ... or the lab equipment. Thank you Sreetips, great work!
Whats the density comparison between crystal chloroauric acid and elemental? That chlorine smell is the molecular decomposition by heat, I believe. Thats why you have so much gold that came out. Smelting could reduce it but unsure if gold could be in the smoke. Try this again without adding water when re-liquifying. Remember your metal detector didnt see it.
Great video again Mr. Sreetips. 50 Troy's was a bit too much in crystals without breaking the glass beaker. Maybe 10 troy ounces would be better so you could break them up, collect and store. As you say, that's why you do these experiments to learn.
Didn't look as dark after it had cooled, looked truly burnt in part 1 to me. Amazed that it dropped metal directly from crystal with only hcl? What in the name of molecular bonds happened there? Enough minerals left from the acid impurities after evaporation to start a chain reaction when rehydrated? Congrats on getting it all back into a single beaker! Excellent edge of my seat chemistry!
That solid was not gold crystal, it was gold chloride. When the HCl was added a lot of the Au ions were freed and yes, they bonded but I'm just a physicist, NOT a chemist. Edit: I forgot to add that the first reply was correct. The solubility problem was the reason for the metal (which was actual crystal) to drop out.
Wild to see you wing it like this, screwing around and challenging yourself. Really making it interesting, experimenting and getting unusual and surprising results. Big fun! Messy, but fun!
This is my last time, and this time I really mean it. I forgot the despair and anguish of just a few months ago on how difficult it is to work with this much gold all at once.
I was about to say that the concentration of the chloroauric acid would probably be the culprit for the filter failure. I'd be willing to bet its considerably thicker and heavier than the average refines
I've been wondering about this for years, 50 ounces of gold un-detectable. Wow. I've asked you several times about performing this type of test and never got a response. Nice to see the experiment finally being performed. Thanks!
Wow that was a cool experiment With the chloroauric acid crystal being undetected It's so fascinating that the gold is in there but it's in a different form
That’s so cool to test with the metal detector… Your video are so awesome the passion you have is without words. Thanks for teaching us. With a regular process of refining how much money do you spend in chemicals… I know it’s s a passion and hobby for you. I don’t think I could buy that much chemicals in Canada without being on some kind of a short list with a red flag 🚩. Thanks again Mr Sreetips. 👍🏻✌🏻🇨🇦
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips. Thank you so much for this clip🔥 I have seen soooo many gold refining clip,and many who do this...Mrs Sreetips...Mr Sreetips....You are simply the best 🔥🔥🌸🌸God bless your hart's.
Seems like I've seen you try this process before, where the concentration is too much and it requires exorbitant amounts of smb. Perhaps smaller batches? Idk. But you got it. Love your videos.
I had wondered if the white crystals, formed from freezing red concentrated chloroauric acid would also evade a metal detector. Chem-oflage, as salt. As far as the filter paper fail. I use a piece of poly cloth shower curtain material as a backing substrate. I use the same material for filtering foils from copper sulphate and copper chloride processes as well. I've been using the same pieces of material for several years without degradation.
What happened when you evaporated the chloroauro acid down is create gold chloride . Whis is soluable in water. . By adding commerical hydrochloric acid, this contains a large percentage of water to be stable and safe to handle. Which put your gold back in solution, and your left with an excess of hydrochloric acid. . Adding the stumpout creates carbon dioxide hydrogen and yellow sulphur , which is exothermic in its 2 reactions. Reacting to the excess hydrochloric acid, and flipping off the chlorine atoms off the gold ions, and then the gold ions attact each other in the water rich environment, which the chlorine ions are trying to bind to the sulfur and sodium to create salts.
SREETIPS won’t let any solution he comes across whip him. Chief, when you poured the solution back into the 5L beaker, was it a sponge? Because it looks like a much bigger crystalline flake to me. Thank you sir. I’m glad Mrs. SREETIPS keeps ya busy. 👍❤️🤙😊
23:45 The metallic gold would be the result of chloroauric acid decomposing, both from the heating to dryness and slowly over time (remember it smelling like chlorine? that would be the reason) - remember, gold doesn't like to form compounds and will freebase itself when it can.
I had to use my drool towel the whole 30 minutes and 46 seconds and I must have looked like I was stoned out of my mind for sure, this was a nail-biter for sure!!!!
You dont need use hydrochloric acid. You may diisssolve tjis solids in distiled water and crystalize gold chloride (AuCl3) - Red crystals (anhydrous); golden, yellow crystals (monohydrate)
I love the guess and by golly approach, just keep adding more SMB to that SOB. Where the hell is that gold? "Drop" Sreetips says. This all could have been avoided if he was just complacent with that 50 oz. bar of gold, but ow no Mr. Wizard said "hold my beaker". Awesome video, I think his old lady has his nuts in a vice during this experiment, telling him "you better get that gold back Mr. Wizard".
Hi Kevin, I suspect that the metallic gold precipitated as you re-hydated the dried chloroauric powder with hyrochloric acid. There was sufficient liquid to dissolve the entire dried acid base but not enough to hold all the metal in solution. Essentially the fresh hydrochloric got saturated and the excess metallic gold that couldn't be held in solution dropped out as metallic gold precipitate. As you were evaporating the solution Aqua regia solution, the nitric part of the solution was holding some gold in a liquid state. In fact as it got dried there mignt just been dropped gold in the flakes but in small particles that acted as seeds to drop the metallic gold when re-hydrated. Good video 👍
I’m a Detectorist the salt may not trip that machine but orientation matters with coils plus if it is a VLF machine or pulse induction would matter too if a coil isn’t moving over an object with VLF you also won’t get a tone
dry chloroauric acid decomposes into metallic gold above 300c you could try force air evaporation,, or dipping seed crystals into a super saturated solution. it seems just heating till the chloroauric acid becomes solid wont work
Saludos desde México, me gusta mucho su trabajo, soy joyero y me gustaría saber cómo se puede presipitar el oro de una solución de cianuro de sodio y peróxido, ojalá me pudiera orientar y que mejor sería que hiciera el proceso en unos de sus videos,gracias y que siga teniendo éxito en su trabajo
Hi Sreetips, and thanks for the video. I suspect that your solution was too concentrated for the smb precipitation. You can save money on reagents using SO2 gas and diluting the solution. It also helps with the temperature
Interesting how there was metallic gold left from the salt, apparently nature does like to come to equilibrium and gold doesn't want to stay at that salt form for long. Well the heat was probably the main reason for chlorine to just f off and leave the gold behind for real. Still interesting way to get gold back without using more chemicals. It also looked like more finer particles when you poked it around so good for some things I guess.
The more I think about this, the more I see how crazy it is! Imagine the fiasco that would ensue if you lost your grip on the beaker full of chloroauric acid! Gold solution everywhere! Maybe some would even splash onto your clothes? You would have to soak up the spill with 3-4 rolls of paper towels, then take your fume hood apart and wipe the residue from all the pieces. Then you would have to deal with any that spilled out onto the floor, etc.. Then would begin a long process of recovering the gold. Would make a really fun video for me to watch though!
Those kinds of thoughts were on my mind throughout the entire process. Made me feel like a was going to toss my cookies a few times. The things we go through for a few thousand views on the channel.
If you are starting with just Chloroauric, HCl and dH2O and no HNO3, then the temperature of the solution can't make it go back into solution. Without HNO3, once the Golds out, its out. if anything, the extra temp will move it along a bit quicker, within reason.
I saw another you tuber make purple gold recently. I was wondering if you would consider making an attempt to make some since you have the skills, knowledge and the equipment to do the awesome experiments you do. Just a thought. 🙂
I think I understand. How to hide gold in such a manner that foils the efforts of thugs and thieves to find and steal it. I understand that some expensive metal detectors can differentiate between some metals. We are at a disadvantage today because almost everyone expects most mundane items to be plastic.
@24:13 ... if you review your footage you might note the gold either coming out of solution shortly after you added the first batch of hydrochloric acid and distilled water or being revealed to have already come out of solution prior to / during the drying process ... you can see it sparkle in the liquid !
This answers another question I had about chloroauric acid which is how stable is it? Some of it reverted back to metallic gold after you added hydrochloric acid and heated it, even without stump-out.
Successful test converting gold into non detectable form. Bring out the Big Bukner Funnel Filter to increase surface area during filtering and lower the vacuum level to filter more slowly. I think your chloroauric concentration level is to high for filtering and should be diluted ×5-×10 times to filter more effectively. You did concentrate chloroauric to a near supersaturated solution before solidifying. If not at first you don't succeed, try, try again and wait for Part3.❤
Given sufficient chloroauric acid solution, and disregarding any losses for the moment, do you reckon you could set up a gold cell to make crystals like your silver? Would it even work?
@24:15 I think this happened during crystallisation, I suspected that was happening at the time. I think that crystal growth depleted areas of chlorine so not enough to generate crystals at those locations so the only thing the gold can do at that point (not being soluble any more) is fall out. Anyone else think this?
How do you measure the purity of gold? It's fascinating to use these chemicals to dissolve gold, and other chemicals to extract the gold from solution. At the end of the day what have you got?
Gold is money. It stands on its own and needs no third party validation. Gold is the standard by which everything else is priced, for thousands of years. Because it’s stable and doesn’t change. The gold in your ring could have been worn by Cleopatra. They are desperately trying to divorce themselves from GOLD (and silver). But it’s still here, and it’s still the standard. Just think of it this way; long after dollars, Amazon, Apple and bitcoin are gone and forgotten, gold silver will still be here, and they will still be valuable. The big refiner I sell to, uses XRF to determine purity for my payout. Comes back three nines fine every time.
This has to be one of the craziest experiments I've ever seen you do. Wow!
I can only concur, mostly because of the scale.
But if the Conquistadors were encroaching, and looking for gold…
History lesson really. Almost an introductory class on metal refinery, and chemistry.
So fascinating, yours truly;
Huge fan of your channel. 🙏❤️🖼️
This is gold. I don't know where it came from. 😂 You sir, discovered the philosopher's Stone. 😂
He melted down a $120K gold bar. See- this video is part 2.
Would've been neat to have the metal detector actively running while you added the stump out.
I think the ions were free moving ( not bound) once the salt was suspended in fluid. So, I guess it would have been electrically conductive ( prior to adding the SMB ) Probably the metal detector coil measures ( senses) electrical conductance sorta because the conductive solution would interfere / interrupt the magnetic flux within the detector coil of wire which has only a small voltage and current enough to maintain a minimal continuity without having the coil collapse or rather without the magnetic flux being reabsorbed back into the coil wire. I dunno 🤔
@@anthonyrstrawbridge most metal detectors operate by detecting the eddy currents created by the inductance of metallics moving within a magnetic field. A simple demonstration of this, attach a voltmeter to a wire coil and see voltage on the coil when you pass a magnet near it.
Amazing the amount of complexity that is added to processing gold when you scale up to these numbers of Au. Every single process becomes more complex
You’re a modern day alchemist I know you are not making gold. It’s just fascinating to see it go from a solid to a liquid and back to solid again, this is my favorite channel, you do a great job Mr. Streetips.
Alchemy is the art of profiting off magic of turning low value to high value. Not Harry Potter fantasy magic; Penn and Teller Fool Us magic. Alchemy is about lying to people and making money from it using chemistry or any other manipulative means. This is chemistry not alchemy. This is science degree (chemistry) versus art degree (lying).
But its a pretty valid point! I would bet any alchemists from the past would have their mind blown by the processes hes using! I would say this is about as close as humans can get to true alchemy!
Sreetips defo alchemist makes silver, well grows it
Saw a metal detector like that on 'Scooby Doo'! great video👍
The last time I dropped gold from solution, I took your tip of chilling the solution first. But I did it a bit differently. Rather than putting ice into the solution, I placed the beaker containing the solution into another container holding ice in brine, much like the old crank ice cream making machines. Worked wonderfully. Was probably much colder than using ice directly.
Saved on waste production, limit chance of contaminants being introduced, good idea!
Remember, the SMB produces SO2 gas which precipitates the gold. When you dump the SMB on the surface of the ice raft all the SO2 gas just goes into the air without reacting with the solution. Might try mixing the SMB in water before adding with these huge gold volumes. Or constant stirring might help.
i think the 'vlf?' detector (and most of them)usually function with a sweeping motion to induce the signal to the coil better ... like your making a current with a generator, sweep the coil over the metal ...
Yep! It reminds me of ( visualize) gyroscopic precession. The magnetic flux mostly being at a right angle to the conductive wire coil until a force ( potential) interrupts it.
Well, now I know what to do if I need to hide my gold from a metal detector. This was an awesome experiment. I was gpoing to replicate the process, but sadly don't have 50 OZT of spare gold. Or the chemicals ... or the lab equipment. Thank you Sreetips, great work!
Whats the density comparison between crystal chloroauric acid and elemental?
That chlorine smell is the molecular decomposition by heat, I believe. Thats why you have so much gold that came out. Smelting could reduce it but unsure if gold could be in the smoke. Try this again without adding water when re-liquifying. Remember your metal detector didnt see it.
If Gold smugglers figure this out they would definitely increase their odds 😮
What a great channel. Love it streetips!
The true definition of making it rain a modern day alchemist and a beaker with sparkles ✨️
Great video again Mr. Sreetips. 50 Troy's was a bit too much in crystals without breaking the glass beaker. Maybe 10 troy ounces would be better so you could break them up, collect and store. As you say, that's why you do these experiments to learn.
You are welcome. Excellent work. Looking forward to the next instalment! Thank you Sir. 👍👍🤟
Didn't look as dark after it had cooled, looked truly burnt in part 1 to me. Amazed that it dropped metal directly from crystal with only hcl? What in the name of molecular bonds happened there? Enough minerals left from the acid impurities after evaporation to start a chain reaction when rehydrated? Congrats on getting it all back into a single beaker! Excellent edge of my seat chemistry!
I think it might have something to do with the solubility (past certain concentration the gold just can't stay in solution ¿?)
@@adws5696 a rather interesting way to drop gold out of solution!
@@Sanzus2 i'm not super sure yet if that was what happened, we need Sreetips to confirm it
That solid was not gold crystal, it was gold chloride. When the HCl was added a lot of the Au ions were freed and yes, they bonded but I'm just a physicist, NOT a chemist.
Edit: I forgot to add that the first reply was correct. The solubility problem was the reason for the metal (which was actual crystal) to drop out.
Just some humor. Love your videos
Wild to see you wing it like this, screwing around and challenging yourself. Really making it interesting, experimenting and getting unusual and surprising results. Big fun! Messy, but fun!
This is my last time, and this time I really mean it. I forgot the despair and anguish of just a few months ago on how difficult it is to work with this much gold all at once.
Alright! You win this round on the metal detector not picking up the salt. Thank you for the demonstration.
I really enjoy the experiments even more than the predictable processes you do.
Sreetips…. I had anxiety the whole week thinking about this…. Soooo happy that you rehydrated it!!
I felt like throwing up a couple times.
I love watching your videos thank you
This sure has been fascinating to watch. Wow, that filter paper. Very interesting precipitation too. 👍🏻
I was about to say that the concentration of the chloroauric acid would probably be the culprit for the filter failure.
I'd be willing to bet its considerably thicker and heavier than the average refines
Sorry I've been missing your videos. Working on a Blast furnace. 12hrs a day 7 days a week. Interesting video. Thank you for sharing.
30:03 that purple colloidal gold !
Great video! Cool experiment and story.
I've been wondering about this for years, 50 ounces of gold un-detectable. Wow. I've asked you several times about performing this type of test and never got a response. Nice to see the experiment finally being performed. Thanks!
So you’re the one! Thanks for the suggestion.
Incredible. Dude, youre on my apocalypse crew list!
Wow that was a cool experiment
With the chloroauric acid crystal being undetected
It's so fascinating that the gold is in there but it's in a different form
Sir this is an exciting series so far awaiting the continuation of excellent content thank you for sharing this with us six stars sir
That’s so cool to test with the metal detector… Your video are so awesome the passion you have is without words. Thanks for teaching us. With a regular process of refining how much money do you spend in chemicals… I know it’s s a passion and hobby for you. I don’t think I could buy that much chemicals in Canada without being on some kind of a short list with a red flag 🚩. Thanks again Mr Sreetips. 👍🏻✌🏻🇨🇦
You can, most of it is available at hardware stores.
For a typical refining 1.5 to 3 Troy ounces is less than fifty bucks, not counting the gold.
Awesome! Loved it!
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips.
Thank you so much for this clip🔥
I have seen soooo many gold refining clip,and many who do this...Mrs Sreetips...Mr Sreetips....You are simply the best 🔥🔥🌸🌸God bless your hart's.
Thanks Arne!
@@sreetips Your Welcome Sir 🔥God bless you 🌸
$120k salt turned into $120k tang all in one video 😂
Im happy that dissolved nicely Sreetips 🤠 Thank you for showing us the metal detector demonstration. Hail Science 🧪 God Bless 🙏
That is so cool. You really changed that golds state. Like not just 5:53 from a liquid to a solid. You completely changed it. Wow
Oops I don’t know how I added that time stamp.
@@conanthelibrarian8354 Anything that looks like a timestamp automatically gets converted, eg: 45:45 (which is past the end of the video).
Oh ok Thank you
@@conanthelibrarian8354 You're welcome.
Good work team
Seems like I've seen you try this process before, where the concentration is too much and it requires exorbitant amounts of smb. Perhaps smaller batches? Idk. But you got it. Love your videos.
I remember, and I swore I’d never work with this much gold ever again.
I had wondered if the white crystals, formed from freezing red concentrated chloroauric acid would also evade a metal detector. Chem-oflage, as salt.
As far as the filter paper fail. I use a piece of poly cloth shower curtain material as a backing substrate. I use the same material for filtering foils from copper sulphate and copper chloride processes as well. I've been using the same pieces of material for several years without degradation.
Enjoying this much.
Fascinating experiment Sreetips. Nobody could find that form of gold if you buried in your yard.
What happened when you evaporated the chloroauro acid down is create gold chloride . Whis is soluable in water. .
By adding commerical hydrochloric acid, this contains a large percentage of water to be stable and safe to handle.
Which put your gold back in solution, and your left with an excess of hydrochloric acid. .
Adding the stumpout creates carbon dioxide hydrogen and yellow sulphur , which is exothermic in its 2 reactions. Reacting to the excess hydrochloric acid, and flipping off the chlorine atoms off the gold ions, and then the gold ions attact each other in the water rich environment, which the chlorine ions are trying to bind to the sulfur and sodium to create salts.
SREETIPS won’t let any solution he comes across whip him. Chief, when you poured the solution back into the 5L beaker, was it a sponge? Because it looks like a much bigger crystalline flake to me. Thank you sir. I’m glad Mrs. SREETIPS keeps ya busy. 👍❤️🤙😊
Principal of metaldetector is conductivity, salts are non conductive when they aren't in solution so no beep.
23:45 The metallic gold would be the result of chloroauric acid decomposing, both from the heating to dryness and slowly over time (remember it smelling like chlorine? that would be the reason) - remember, gold doesn't like to form compounds and will freebase itself when it can.
Fantastic 👏🏻🇩🇰💐
Goooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
My dear friend 🔥🌸
God bless you🌸
Goooood evening!
@@ArneDalbakk-ns2mw Hello Arne! Have a wonderful weekend my friend!
That was quite the roller coaster! I hope there won't be too much gold lost with all these chemical transformations.
Me too!
Thats so cool!!! great video!!!
Thanks Sreetips
i'm convinced sreetips has stock in stump-out with how much stimp-out he uses
Probably not a lot of stump removal going on his neck of the woods. It's all precipitating gold.
Sheer brilliants fantastic...
We missed you Mr. Sreetips, I hope you had a good rest
I had to use my drool towel the whole 30 minutes and 46 seconds and I must have looked like I was stoned out of my mind for sure, this was a nail-biter for sure!!!!
That's Incredible!
Didn’t disappoint.
This man is my spirit animal.
When it’s in the dry HAuCl4 form were you ever able at all to chip it out of the beaker?
I could have got it out but would have made a big mess
You dont need use hydrochloric acid. You may diisssolve tjis solids in distiled water and crystalize gold chloride (AuCl3) - Red crystals (anhydrous); golden, yellow crystals (monohydrate)
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I love the guess and by golly approach, just keep adding more SMB to that SOB. Where the hell is that gold? "Drop" Sreetips says. This all could have been avoided if he was just complacent with that 50 oz. bar of gold, but ow no Mr. Wizard said "hold my beaker". Awesome video, I think his old lady has his nuts in a vice during this experiment, telling him "you better get that gold back Mr. Wizard".
Hi Kevin, I suspect that the metallic gold precipitated as you re-hydated the dried chloroauric powder with hyrochloric acid. There was sufficient liquid to dissolve the entire dried acid base but not enough to hold all the metal in solution. Essentially the fresh hydrochloric got saturated and the excess metallic gold that couldn't be held in solution dropped out as metallic gold precipitate.
As you were evaporating the solution Aqua regia solution, the nitric part of the solution was holding some gold in a liquid state.
In fact as it got dried there mignt just been dropped gold in the flakes but in small particles that acted as seeds to drop the metallic gold when re-hydrated.
Good video 👍
That was baffling!
I’m a Detectorist the salt may not trip that machine but orientation matters with coils plus if it is a VLF machine or pulse induction would matter too if a coil isn’t moving over an object with VLF you also won’t get a tone
So crazy seeing you use that much SMB, and it’s still not all crashed out yet. 😮
If I had three hands to add and stir at the same time it would have probably not taken so much stump out.
Hello clan Sreetips, great video 🎉😊
dry chloroauric acid decomposes into metallic gold above 300c you could try force air evaporation,, or dipping seed crystals into a super saturated solution. it seems just heating till the chloroauric acid becomes solid wont work
Some people will probably be like, stump out is made of gold? 😂😂😂
Saludos desde México, me gusta mucho su trabajo, soy joyero y me gustaría saber cómo se puede presipitar el oro de una solución de cianuro de sodio y peróxido, ojalá me pudiera orientar y que mejor sería que hiciera el proceso en unos de sus videos,gracias y que siga teniendo éxito en su trabajo
Everthing is fun time ,your Look by Work.
Hi Sreetips, and thanks for the video.
I suspect that your solution was too concentrated for the smb precipitation. You can save money on reagents using SO2 gas and diluting the solution. It also helps with the temperature
It was raining. 🌧️ gold so awesome 🤩
Wow what a fun project!
Great video my friend
threw the camera lens of a rover it looks like mars so cool
This one was a wild ride 👍
Interesting how there was metallic gold left from the salt, apparently nature does like to come to equilibrium and gold doesn't want to stay at that salt form for long. Well the heat was probably the main reason for chlorine to just f off and leave the gold behind for real. Still interesting way to get gold back without using more chemicals. It also looked like more finer particles when you poked it around so good for some things I guess.
The more I think about this, the more I see how crazy it is! Imagine the fiasco that would ensue if you lost your grip on the beaker full of chloroauric acid! Gold solution everywhere! Maybe some would even splash onto your clothes?
You would have to soak up the spill with 3-4 rolls of paper towels, then take your fume hood apart and wipe the residue from all the pieces. Then you would have to deal with any that spilled out onto the floor, etc.. Then would begin a long process of recovering the gold. Would make a really fun video for me to watch though!
Those kinds of thoughts were on my mind throughout the entire process. Made me feel like a was going to toss my cookies a few times. The things we go through for a few thousand views on the channel.
If you are starting with just Chloroauric, HCl and dH2O and no HNO3, then the temperature of the solution can't make it go back into solution. Without HNO3, once the Golds out, its out. if anything, the extra temp will move it along a bit quicker, within reason.
Try the metal detector on the possible metallic gold.
Outstanding! Just curious did you run a meter across the crystal’s to see if they conducted electric current?
No
An amazing lesson in how to hide pure gold in plain sight ✌️
I was wondering if you might try this , the first experiment turning gold Auric acid , for storage not detectable by the metal detector
I saw another you tuber make purple gold recently. I was wondering if you would consider making an attempt to make some since you have the skills, knowledge and the equipment to do the awesome experiments you do. Just a thought. 🙂
I not very experienced at creating gold alloys. I’m a refiner, I go the other way with the it, separating the junk metals to get pure gold.
I think I understand. How to hide gold in such a manner that foils the efforts of thugs and thieves to find and steal it. I understand that some expensive metal detectors can differentiate between some metals. We are at a disadvantage today because almost everyone expects most mundane items to be plastic.
I'll mail you another new container of Stump Out if you need it,, haha,, great experiment
It would be cool if you were able to put little kits together so we could do this.
@24:13 ... if you review your footage you might note the gold either coming out of solution shortly after you added the first batch of hydrochloric acid and distilled water or being revealed to have already come out of solution prior to / during the drying process ... you can see it sparkle in the liquid !
May ask why it gets hot when adding the stump out? I'm trying to see in my head what is happening in the reaction.
Thank you for the video
It’s an exothermic reaction.
This answers another question I had about chloroauric acid which is how stable is it? Some of it reverted back to metallic gold after you added hydrochloric acid and heated it, even without stump-out.
And here I am wondering if we could use this process intentionally for another refining method!
I fairly certain that the salt can be stored indefinitely in a tightly closed glass container.
I wish I owned the Stump out, Muriatic and Nitric acid store in your neighborhood.
Successful test converting gold into non detectable form. Bring out the Big Bukner Funnel Filter to increase surface area during filtering and lower the vacuum level to filter more slowly. I think your chloroauric concentration level is to high for filtering and should be diluted ×5-×10 times to filter more effectively. You did concentrate chloroauric to a near supersaturated solution before solidifying. If not at first you don't succeed, try, try again and wait for Part3.❤
Greetings to you, dear professor, a question when the gold was precipitated with tin chloride, can I recover the tin from the solution, thank you.
I’ve never tried recovering tin. I don’t know how to do it.
Given sufficient chloroauric acid solution, and disregarding any losses for the moment, do you reckon you could set up a gold cell to make crystals like your silver? Would it even work?
Check out his playlist, he has done it twice, once just a few months back.
Yes, but it’s not exactly the same as the silver cell.
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Need to test in customs x-ray machines . Once I was traveling and have clay pots and they check me what I have.
I wouldn’t recommend taking any gold through customs. That’s not what I’m doing this for.
Maybe try crushing the ice before adding it in, the slow melting of the large chunks seems counterproductive.
Interesting, but how much volume was lost in the process?
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Cost of making UA-cam videos.
You are approaching volumes that max out your setup.
This actually exceeds the capacity of my small hobby operation. What was I thinking? A million views! Not.
@24:15 I think this happened during crystallisation, I suspected that was happening at the time. I think that crystal growth depleted areas of chlorine so not enough to generate crystals at those locations so the only thing the gold can do at that point (not being soluble any more) is fall out. Anyone else think this?
Sounds right,
How do you measure the purity of gold? It's fascinating to use these chemicals to dissolve gold, and other chemicals to extract the gold from solution. At the end of the day what have you got?
Gold is money. It stands on its own and needs no third party validation. Gold is the standard by which everything else is priced, for thousands of years. Because it’s stable and doesn’t change. The gold in your ring could have been worn by Cleopatra. They are desperately trying to divorce themselves from GOLD (and silver). But it’s still here, and it’s still the standard. Just think of it this way; long after dollars, Amazon, Apple and bitcoin are gone and forgotten, gold silver will still be here, and they will still be valuable. The big refiner I sell to, uses XRF to determine purity for my payout. Comes back three nines fine every time.