This man weighed his gold not on a calibrated scale, but his coins in grains of rice, took the avg. weight of a single ricegrain and was able to figure out exactely how many grains of rice his gold was equal to using a battery and a ruler to balance them perfectly. Cody sure makes the most of what he has got, and that's why we like Cody.
+robert karas Glad i read the comment section :"} did not catch that joke the first time i watched it. (not from the US though so do not be to hard on me :P)
"I don't have water, so I'll use pure muric acid". "Turns out the PH was too low". "My balance doesn't weigh grams, so I'll just use a ruler, rice and algebra".
I may have to add a video where I go through and figure out where the rest of the gold went. (assuming my ruler scale was accurate) Since some of you seem confused the losses are the total losses from when I had a 6.2g coin.
I love your improvisations for when you make a mistake or something doesn't work like the scale. The problem solving process is why I watch your videos.
this channel so freaking cool, seeing metal get refined down and all the work you do with bees, metal and handiwork, it's really cool. I also like how much detail you go into when describing what you're doing and how you're doing
Tech Tip: Put a little sulfamic acid in the agua regia a little at a time. It will quickly denox the solution. Like in a couple of minutes. I do assaying and refining.
+SoWeMeetAgain You just have to be careful with your liquids, and be sure to wash out the source beaker each time you transfer it. As long as you're diligent you shouldn't miss too much.
***** hardware store, amazon(yeah), pharmacist be sure to know why you want to get what you want to get or it's gonna get awkward and they might call the police on you because they're stupid and think you want to make nefarious things
+SoWeMeetAgain Welcome to America, where it's okay to carry guns in the open but by god if you try to do chemistry at your house that ass is going to jail.
Cody, would putting amalgamated gold in a potato and put potato plug in the potato and wrap with foil and cook in a outdoor campfire for the day, will the mercury suck into the potato leaving clean gold?
I love everything about this. So much work for that little bead of gold. And the scrappy home lab, OMG, this is the content I never knew I needed but always wanted
+Nguagemaster I think you'd need a lot of cereal to get even the tiniest bit of iron from it, corn flakes: 28.9 mg per 100g of cereal, 28.9 * 10 = 289 mg for every kg of cereal lolo
+Tropicalfrooploops Cody needs to get on this quickly. Although it would be really expensive, almost as much as a real sword. It also depends on the specific charge of the iron, since the charges vary in the transition metals. Depending on the charge, you would need different substances to react with the iron or the other impurities, so that the iron is pure. One easy way to get the iron out is to just crush the cereal into a powder, and put it in a plastic bag with water, and wave a neodymium magnet around. The iron collects on the areas surrounding the magnet.
I've seen quite a few videos on refining gold, but this would be the first one I've seen where the results were weighed using a battery, a ruler, some coins and grains of rice. As always, your inventiveness in diy solutions is a pleasure to witness.
This was a really good video. I like how you even went over some steps where you "messed up" a couple times, & it still turned out beautifully! Well done!
You mean basic chemistry without safety precautions? It is fun till you lose an eye or two. No lab insurance would ever consider having such a customer :)
MetallicReg people like you are what take the fun out of things, you just have to act superior by saying how basic it is, you’re the reason people hate science
If this is your level of fun, you won't make it far in your life :) It is objectively basic (not subjectively like you try to place it) because it is part of the western junior education. I am not the reason people hate science - people hate science, because using your brain is hard work, and hard work without a reason for passion down the line (financial, sociological or personal) is not rewarded by easy dopamines like watching a specifically edited entertainment video on youtube.
why hasn't anybody made a breaking good parody with cody making meth and being super happy and cheerful while all the dramatic shit from the breaking bad show happens around him, he'd be like walter white on opiates
I weirdly enjoy watching these videos. These aren't the usual things I watch but it's oddly entertaining to see all these chemicals working together. You're a very knowledgable man Cody.
All the comments below are childish. What you are doing is just the best thing I've seen anyone else do in such a long time. You can truthfully help so much people with the kinds of experiments you do. It's amazing the things you can really get just around town...
I really have to thank you for taking the time to explain all the details of your reasoning when you do things. It makes all the things I learned in my high school and first year of college chemistry make so much sense. :)
Hey Cody. I actually have the same scale and it actually measures in grams. When you turn it on just click the button on the underside until it reads g for grams. A pain I know but it works(:
+blazednlovinit It would be accurate enough in grams (assuming it goes to 2 decimal places), it's just it read the lowest value that the scale could produce in lbs and for accuracy for mass on a scale you take the smallest value that is given (in this case roughly 2.5 grams) and plus or minus it, seeing as it weighed roughly 2.5 grams and it could be minused 2.5 grams then 0 wouldn't be logical at all so therefore isn't accurate enough for what he wanted as 2.5 grams difference is a humungous percentage of that tiny bit of golds mass :)
I actually used a process very similar to what you did for weighing the gold for one of my old science fair projects. I was testing different coatings on metals to see which ones resisted corrosion the most, and I only had a weekend left before it was due, so I ended up using the strongest acid we had in the house and left them for around a day and a half. Then we used BBs, coins, and needles to measure it out on top of a balance made of a rod and a knife. Actually got some results from it. Cool to see that method being used in more practical applications.
that's cool,I'm not the only person who uses his own improvised way,but uses it a slightly different but (probably more)acurate and actually works,even tho some or most people may find it crazy.yea weighting gold and finding percentage using rice is awesome! you deserve a round of applause👏👏👏😊
5:00 "You know I bought this crock pot exclusively for this purpose, so I guess I'm not really too chuffed about it." Chuffed means you're pleased by something, not perturbed.
You have 63% of the *mass* you started with, but given that you removed a lot of impurities from the gold, you probably have close to the same amount of actual gold that you started with. =)
+dzScritches I'm pretty sure when he says coin, he's referring to the gold coin he shows back in his attempt at electroplating his bumper, and not the material he was refining in this video. May be wrong though.
+dzScritches my thoughts exactly. The amount of lead, in the alloy he started with, could have posed the missing 37% easily. Also, his "scale" might have caused major errors as well.
This was actually really cool! :D You kept my attention throughout the whole video, I normally don't watch videos this long. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this process! Thanks for the upload!
ficolas2 i nam pretty sure he did not build it. it looks like a small jewelers furnace and i was curious where he got it from. your thinking of the much bigger furnace that he has used before
How did you refine the original buttons? Because regarding the missing weight, when I do a simple borax smelt it still leaves my gold fairly unpure (lots of copper and silver inside still) but what you are getting out of the aqua regia should be pure gold (minus the copper/silver), right? I guess I'm not sure where you got the lead and original gold since I haven't seen all your vids, where you doing assaying or something?
Nicely done Cody. One thing to remember, every time you transfer solution from one beaker to another you'll experience losses. If you can process start to finish in the same vessel you will cut your losses considerably. I'd expect after refining you should have retained about 85% or 90% of the original weight. I expect there is some gold hiding in with the lead chloride still.
So cool Cody =) We are currently refining our gold and are at the stage where we evap the nitric acids from the dissolved gold solution. Thanks for all of the guidance... We will have a video up soon! Duby
I am envious of that huge jug of nitric acid
+Nile Red i like ur vids
Your videos are amazing! You, Cody, and NurdRage inspired me to become an amateur chemist. Just wanted to tell you how cool you are!!!
Wow, you're here too? That's cool :D
Ryan Cooper I am glad to hear that :)
+Nile Red love your vids
This man weighed his gold not on a calibrated scale, but his coins in grains of rice, took the avg. weight of a single ricegrain and was able to figure out exactely how many grains of rice his gold was equal to using a battery and a ruler to balance them perfectly. Cody sure makes the most of what he has got, and that's why we like Cody.
"you might find a little bit more lead then flint Michigan"
That burn though...
+robert karas Glad i read the comment section :"} did not catch that joke the first time i watched it. (not from the US though so do not be to hard on me :P)
+robert karas was looking for this comment. I about died when he said that.
I live in Michigan, it killed me 😄 gladly I don't live in flint.
+robert karas Yeah, that burn is going to be mildly itchy for a few days . . .
care to explain?... For a friend...
"I don't have water, so I'll use pure muric acid".
"Turns out the PH was too low".
"My balance doesn't weigh grams, so I'll just use a ruler, rice and algebra".
Cody is still probably smarter than you.
GregTom2 But you’re pretty good with them ivories so it evens out.
Exactly what I thought. Jeez
I may have to add a video where I go through and figure out where the rest of the gold went. (assuming my ruler scale was accurate) Since some of you seem confused the losses are the total losses from when I had a 6.2g coin.
+Cody'sLab i live in aus i want nitric acid for this any tips on where to get it
+Cody'sLab id love to see that
+ANONYMOUS AUSTRALIA
farmers use it i THINK you can buy big quantities in rural areas. ask around
+ANONYMOUS AUSTRALIA lmgtfy.com/?q=Nitric+acid+australia#seen
Aidan steel pretty shure you need a licence i live out west will ask round but the hope is slim
I love your improvisations for when you make a mistake or something doesn't work like the scale. The problem solving process is why I watch your videos.
Something about this channel I can't resist!!!!!!
it is his personality
+Factastic No its his mine videos.
name surname wtf
me too his videos are so cool!
I feel you man
The new season of Breaking Bad looks great.
Add some variety to your channel to bolster views
It's currently 2:50 I was writing an essay and I'm so glad this is posted thanks!
+Frahstee
I have a test in the morning...
+Cody'sLab it's 10 am here in Germany and I have a test in 2 hrs
+Cody'sLab im sorry to hear about your loss, RIP Cody 1953-2016
+Jdnrox
wait... 1953?
+Cody'sLab Same. Got 2 actually.
11:30 "Just a little bit more [lead] then you might find in Flint, Michigan." Nice.
it wasn't meant to be a joke
You guys live in a lie. I hope your proud of yourselves.
I nobodycaresanyway insightful
@@inobodycaresanyway9781 Does Flint, Michigan not feature alarmingly high levels of lead?
That ruler and battery that you used to weigh the gold more accurately than a weight scale is why I love this channel.
As a Michigander, that flint joke hit me. You saw the chance and took it. Props.
+Austin Frey same
this channel so freaking cool, seeing metal get refined down and all the work you do with bees, metal and handiwork, it's really cool. I also like how much detail you go into when describing what you're doing and how you're doing
Tech Tip: Put a little sulfamic acid in the agua regia a little at a time. It will quickly denox the solution. Like in a couple of minutes. I do assaying and refining.
i might have some actually, I'll have to try it!
:/ I'd be constantly worried about "wasting" gold when transferring from one glass to another ...
+SoWeMeetAgain You just have to be careful with your liquids, and be sure to wash out the source beaker each time you transfer it. As long as you're diligent you shouldn't miss too much.
+SoWeMeetAgain exactly my thoughs.
*****
hardware store, amazon(yeah), pharmacist
be sure to know why you want to get what you want to get or it's gonna get awkward and they might call the police on you because they're stupid and think you want to make nefarious things
+SoWeMeetAgain Welcome to America, where it's okay to carry guns in the open but by god if you try to do chemistry at your house that ass is going to jail.
+SoWeMeetAgain
Look at this droplet of gold running away forever:
ua-cam.com/video/asAEqbDmGzo/v-deo.htmlm25s
Thank you for existing. Live long and prosper.
Cody, would putting amalgamated gold in a potato and put potato plug in the potato and wrap with foil and cook in a outdoor campfire for the day, will the mercury suck into the potato leaving clean gold?
Yes but its not a great way to do it.
Cody'sLab why is it though? What is the downside?
Rossa O Riain... you would ruin a perfect good potato.... and Cody loves potatoes.
haha, measuring in grains of rice. That's very imperial of you.
He couldn't measure in grams so he measured in grains instead.
Cody there should be a button on the back of that scale to change it over to grams it's the same scale as mine and I've done it
i was going to say that I have this scale too and it definitely does grams. on mine you just press mode a few times.
+Jamie Kabzinski
I thought that would be the case when I bought it but no luck.
I love everything about this. So much work for that little bead of gold. And the scrappy home lab, OMG, this is the content I never knew I needed but always wanted
Have you ever tried extracting iron from cereal?
+Nguagemaster Man, now that would actually be pretty cool, making an iron ingot out of cereal.
+Nguagemaster I think you'd need a lot of cereal to get even the tiniest bit of iron from it, corn flakes: 28.9 mg per 100g of cereal, 28.9 * 10 = 289 mg for every kg of cereal lolo
+Nguagemaster lol imagine if he forged a sword out of frosted flakes or somthing
+Tropicalfrooploops Cody needs to get on this quickly. Although it would be really expensive, almost as much as a real sword. It also depends on the specific charge of the iron, since the charges vary in the transition metals. Depending on the charge, you would need different substances to react with the iron or the other impurities, so that the iron is pure. One easy way to get the iron out is to just crush the cereal into a powder, and put it in a plastic bag with water, and wave a neodymium magnet around. The iron collects on the areas surrounding the magnet.
just crush up the cereal into powder, dissolve it into water a throw a magnet in. the iron will collect on it
I've seen quite a few videos on refining gold, but this would be the first one I've seen where the results were weighed using a battery, a ruler, some coins and grains of rice. As always, your inventiveness in diy solutions is a pleasure to witness.
talks about eye protection
*next scene* "I'm going to eyeball this"
This was a really good video. I like how you even went over some steps where you "messed up" a couple times, & it still turned out beautifully!
Well done!
THAT GODDAMN FLINT MICHIGAN JOKE
Subscribed.
Ikr I was laughing so hard
time please?
11:30
I absolutely adore this channel. One of the most interesting, humorous, and amazing channels I've ever come across. Keep up the good work Cody!!
I've never experienced chemistry this way before. I'm so interested now!
Same here.
It's not chemistry it's alchemy
You mean basic chemistry without safety precautions? It is fun till you lose an eye or two.
No lab insurance would ever consider having such a customer :)
MetallicReg people like you are what take the fun out of things, you just have to act superior by saying how basic it is, you’re the reason people hate science
If this is your level of fun, you won't make it far in your life :)
It is objectively basic (not subjectively like you try to place it) because it is part of the western junior education.
I am not the reason people hate science - people hate science, because using your brain is hard work, and hard work without a reason for passion down the line (financial, sociological or personal) is not rewarded by easy dopamines like watching a specifically edited entertainment video on youtube.
Love this series, only just got onto it, but there's something so peaceful and satisfying about it
"34 grains of rice"
remember guys, that sophistication got us the the moon! :D
Great video man, you took us by the hand in all the process, few other channels are so descriptive as you were with this process.
why hasn't anybody made a breaking good parody with cody making meth and being super happy and cheerful while all the dramatic shit from the breaking bad show happens around him, he'd be like walter white on opiates
Did someone say Walter White?
Walter White teach me master
I sleep well at night knowing Cody isn't evil.
+rich5562000 I did what I had to do to support my family. I'm glad Cody wasn't placed in the same predicament.
Walter White
Nope, Heisenberg told Skylar "I did it for me" in the final episode.
I have it on DVD!
I weirdly enjoy watching these videos. These aren't the usual things I watch but it's oddly entertaining to see all these chemicals working together. You're a very knowledgable man Cody.
Instead of counting rice grains couldn't you move the quarter closer to the fulcrum until it balanced and work out the ratio directly?
+fluffymcdeath True, but didn't you just love him counting those 100+ grains of rice? xD
Gonna have to watch this about four times with a notepad open to learn anything. Thank you Internet!
Cody likes imperial units so much he's going to measure everything in units like grains and furlongs from now on.
Imagine speeds expressed in furlongs per fortnight ;)
I found this channel through chance, now I look forward to each video. Thank you.
"I'm using acid because I forgot the distilled water" lmao, holy shit!
All the comments below are childish. What you are doing is just the best thing I've seen anyone else do in such a long time. You can truthfully help so much people with the kinds of experiments you do. It's amazing the things you can really get just around town...
Does the acid not cost way more than the gold ? Never the less pretty cool.
No, not even close, gold is way more
I really have to thank you for taking the time to explain all the details of your reasoning when you do things. It makes all the things I learned in my high school and first year of college chemistry make so much sense. :)
Hey Cody. I actually have the same scale and it actually measures in grams. When you turn it on just click the button on the underside until it reads g for grams. A pain I know but it works(:
+Joshua Sicz I think he said it wasn't accurate enough anyway.
+blazednlovinit It would be accurate enough in grams (assuming it goes to 2 decimal places), it's just it read the lowest value that the scale could produce in lbs and for accuracy for mass on a scale you take the smallest value that is given (in this case roughly 2.5 grams) and plus or minus it, seeing as it weighed roughly 2.5 grams and it could be minused 2.5 grams then 0 wouldn't be logical at all so therefore isn't accurate enough for what he wanted as 2.5 grams difference is a humungous percentage of that tiny bit of golds mass :)
+Conrad Y if it's the same scale I have it only has a resolution of 1 gram.
Conrad Y Why would switching to metric make the hardware more accurate?
+Promethorn Oh well if its only to 1 gram then it still isn't accurate enough, the more you know though ;)
I actually used a process very similar to what you did for weighing the gold for one of my old science fair projects. I was testing different coatings on metals to see which ones resisted corrosion the most, and I only had a weekend left before it was due, so I ended up using the strongest acid we had in the house and left them for around a day and a half. Then we used BBs, coins, and needles to measure it out on top of a balance made of a rod and a knife. Actually got some results from it. Cool to see that method being used in more practical applications.
Just as I was about to go to bed.
lol
lol
lol
lol
lol
This is one of the most impressive Cody videos I have ever seen
dont ever drink nothing at this guys house
+cashman556 dont drick nothing? double negative so your saying to drink something there?
*Don't *anything *guy's
so do drink something
@the crafty guy - what the hell does "innit" mean?
double negative is still negative in colloquial english sometimes
that's cool,I'm not the only person who uses his own improvised way,but uses it a slightly different but (probably more)acurate and actually works,even tho some or most people may find it crazy.yea weighting gold and finding percentage using rice is awesome!
you deserve a round of applause👏👏👏😊
You should name this video "Lead It Out"
+Keito Minami LOL
Lead it go
+ReiAsianBoy No
+ReiAsianBoy FUCK THIS SHIT IM OUT. NOOOOOOO NOOOOOOO FUCK NOOO
I have to say, you come up with some great ideas for different series. Both this and "real life mine craft" are extremely cool.
This is the coolest channel on UA-cam!
all of your videos are great and to the point and fun to watch... Keep it up!
5:00 "You know I bought this crock pot exclusively for this purpose, so I guess I'm not really too chuffed about it."
Chuffed means you're pleased by something, not perturbed.
Those little clips at the end of the videos are really cool and add a bunch to the video! Definetly better than leaving them out.
You have 63% of the *mass* you started with, but given that you removed a lot of impurities from the gold, you probably have close to the same amount of actual gold that you started with. =)
+dzScritches I'm pretty sure when he says coin, he's referring to the gold coin he shows back in his attempt at electroplating his bumper, and not the material he was refining in this video. May be wrong though.
+dzScritches - If he was right that the original bead was 23 carat gold, only about 4% was actually impurities. He still lost 33% of the gold.
+dzScritches my thoughts exactly. The amount of lead, in the alloy he started with, could have posed the missing 37% easily. Also, his "scale" might have caused major errors as well.
This was actually really cool! :D You kept my attention throughout the whole video, I normally don't watch videos this long. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this process! Thanks for the upload!
Hommade scale and grains of rice as measurement -> true engineer
A true engineer would have applied f=md
You're so amazing, so smart. It's wonderful. I'm binge watching your videos.
Subbed !!
I love how you figured out the weight. Very smart stuff!
How much is that little bead worth?
+dstnlockwood77
150$ or so.
+Cody'sLab Nice! Love your videos. If you take apart those smoke detectors, you should do a video on the Americium 241.
I wonder too
Bout' tree-fiddy
+Checker vom Neckar bist ja n richtig cooler
I really loved the quality increase of editing audio and visual quality. The video shows how much Cody'sLab has grown.
Wow I have so much more respect for refining now.
Congrats on 200,000 subscribers! You definitely deserve it!
The flint joke was amusing. Where did you get the furnace
he made it
+ficolas2 no?
+TM80 NotGoodWithNames yes?
+ficolas2 no
ficolas2 i nam pretty sure he did not build it. it looks like a small jewelers furnace and i was curious where he got it from. your thinking of the much bigger furnace that he has used before
How did you refine the original buttons? Because regarding the missing weight, when I do a simple borax smelt it still leaves my gold fairly unpure (lots of copper and silver inside still) but what you are getting out of the aqua regia should be pure gold (minus the copper/silver), right? I guess I'm not sure where you got the lead and original gold since I haven't seen all your vids, where you doing assaying or something?
I can't believe he doesn't have 1million subscribers
Well, he does now.
Now 1.2M
Boy do I have some news for you
Thumbs-up for the fajita pan foundry and measurement of weight by grains of rice. Great videos, Cody--I always enjoy them. :)
13:32 when you have to weigh ur weed without scale
Looks like you're getting all the right help.
Thanks Bud.
Even though you had less gold, would you profit from this refining? or do you do it for fun
Btw loved the video
+LordMegaPotato .
Hugg Thank you so much man this is real helpfull.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+LordMegaPotato Hello my lord
I don't think he earned much, since the bead was already23 karat gold, only making it 24 so prob not much
Many of us are doing it but you are The Pioneer!
THAT FLINT MICHIGAN HIT. I LITERALLY HRO LAUGHING SO HARD
this is my second video of yours I've seen and I was subbed by the first. your awesome man. so much more knowledge and interesting than other channels
"It makes it look bigger"
~Cody, 2016
Patrick Jackson how old are you 12?
Dániel Szepesi 20 actually
This is easily the most fascinating channel on all of UA-cam.
Oh, look. The imperial system was less precise than the metric one. What a shocker.
For smaller things...
+rjsyou Correction -
For Everything
rjsyou
You do realise what precision is, right?
+David McGhee the scale wasn't precise... It only went to one decimal point. It has nothing to do with imperial measurement. lol
+David McGhee - That's what decimal places are for...
One of your best series so far, keep it up!
Putting sulphuric acid, a little, in the solution, will precipitate the lead out of solution.
yes, it would.
I been fiddling around with this stuff for awhile now
Liked it before the vid even started
Streetips is my go to channel
Gold makes me smile,😊
These videos are therapeutic. Are you Canadian?
He's from Utah
So pretty much Canadian
He’s an honorary Canadian. Bright people are always welcome.
This is so fascinating! Can't wait to see your next episodes Cody!!!!!
"Probably more lead than Flint,Michigan."
+landon andrus I paused the video when he said that and watched it over to make sure I heard it right. lol
Nicely done Cody. One thing to remember, every time you transfer solution from one beaker to another you'll experience losses. If you can process start to finish in the same vessel you will cut your losses considerably.
I'd expect after refining you should have retained about 85% or 90% of the original weight.
I expect there is some gold hiding in with the lead chloride still.
Rain drop drop top cooking up gold in the crockpot
Excellent video! I wasn't sure if I could use a cupel that way. Thanks for this.
Guy who sacrifices gold so others can learn.
Hung Doan did you watch the video? he loses some gold everytime he dilutes it and refines it later. the refining process is not 100% efficient.
which is expensive.
Cody your videos are always so entertaining! Keep up the amazing work man, love your stuff
5:07 bet that smells bomb
cool
Evan Cannon Not anything to smell!
Interesting, educational, and very pretty gold! Great job Cody!
BREAKING LAB
That was awesome and fascinating to watch. Good job man, that's a beautiful little piece of gold. Going to watch the other refining vids now :p
Hey you! Person reading this! You're awesome, have a great day!
Thanks
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I was so excited to watch this video today!! Thanks Cody!
what the hell is he doin
+Perry Palmboom Refining gold. Getting the lead and impurities out, making it 100% pure gold
Cave Torcher allright thanks
+jack meiner he dissolves the gold into acid, extracts the lead, then extracted the gold out of the acid by raising the ph
Experiments
This video brought me to your channel . I watched like 30-40 videos of yours the last day :D ! I really enjoy your channel !
Cody I really enjoy watching your videos, they are always so entertaining and informative.
Keep doing what you do, you're a radical dude :)
This was awesome, Cody!! Definitely gonna be subscribing, thanks for making chemistry easy and understandable
So cool Cody =) We are currently refining our gold and are at the stage where we evap the nitric acids from the dissolved gold solution. Thanks for all of the guidance... We will have a video up soon!
Duby
Its so pretty!!! That bead of gold is so nice and shiny.
I know some people are not not gonna like this Man... I watch hen I'm high..love you 👍
absolutely loving the videos man, learning something new every day. wish they could have made things this interesting in school 👍