Silver Chloride Conversion With Lye and Sugar Pt1

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  • @sledgenwedge
    @sledgenwedge 6 місяців тому +26

    😂such a delicate balance of F'n around and finding out. Always enjoy your chemistry lessons

  • @TrumpedUp888
    @TrumpedUp888 6 місяців тому +26

    I've seen some incredible things in my 58 yrs on this earth. However, what you did in this silver processing video by adding sugar, of all things, to the silver oxide blew me away!😮 Your step by step procedure tonight has just earned a place in my top 5 of the most remarkable and beyond incredible things I've ever seen. I truly want to thank you for the time you took to make this video. It's truly an amazing and spectacular experience ✨️ You Rock, sir!

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому +6

      Excellent, thank you!

    • @tomasallende9583
      @tomasallende9583 5 місяців тому

      The fact you made such a dumb comment made sense when I realized you're probably an antivaxxer. ''Oh my, you're telling me sugar is a chemical?'' Yes pumpkin, it's a reducing agent in this case, I don't understand how this baffles you to this degree.

  • @timpratten2258
    @timpratten2258 5 місяців тому +5

    There are so many ways to convert these metals into different versions. My mind gets blown everytime I watch your videos. Please keep them coming I thoroughly enjoy them

  • @ScottySwans
    @ScottySwans 6 місяців тому +22

    I know copper is small fry compared to gold and silver but... Man with how diligent you are at maximizing each waste treatment, I'm shocked you just get rid of it!!

    • @GokouZWAR
      @GokouZWAR 6 місяців тому +5

      I’d agree. Copper isn’t gold but it is pretty valuable when you have a lot of it. You could take the copper metal and make an ingot out of it and reuse it in your silver treatment.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому +8

      I can’t even give it away.

    • @Carpenterjoh65
      @Carpenterjoh65 6 місяців тому +6

      He should at least set it aside until there's enough to care about. I agree, it seems to violate Sreetips' ethics to just toss it.

    • @kimberlynolz5725
      @kimberlynolz5725 6 місяців тому +2

      That's how i drop most my silver thin run it thru the cell! Supper pure silver at the end!

    • @Alison.Saunders
      @Alison.Saunders 6 місяців тому +1

      It’s amazing. In Australia people steal copper all the time because of its value. Often we get power outages because someone has stolen copper wire. I’m surprised that it has not much value in the states

  • @Carpenterjoh65
    @Carpenterjoh65 6 місяців тому +4

    You make great content. Keep up the good work and I really appreciate you mixing things up and not doing the same job over and over.

  • @andrewlovesu1
    @andrewlovesu1 5 місяців тому

    I love how far you have come since i first saw you on the forum.
    I think we started on the forum at the same time.
    You mastered the processes👍👍
    From New Zealand 🇳🇿

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      I remember fumbling about when I first started in the forum. It’s been a wonderful journey, and I’m still learning new things.

  • @dand8538
    @dand8538 5 місяців тому

    I have been watching your past video. The things you have done. Refining virtually every precious metal known. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make your channel. You are awesome.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      Thank you!

  • @chadvail4436
    @chadvail4436 13 днів тому

    Love all your videos , a true legend and value to us all ! Thanks again

  • @Chris-ch5nb
    @Chris-ch5nb 5 місяців тому

    I love this. This is the kind of thorough, well thought, well explained, accurate information I’ve come to expect from this channel.
    It excellent seeing the full path your processes take and seeing the waste end of it safely covered also.
    Thank you!

  • @dustinscroggins3382
    @dustinscroggins3382 6 місяців тому +2

    This was a great video, cant waot for part 2,
    Wish you did more of this conversion

  • @jonathonbaker5107
    @jonathonbaker5107 5 місяців тому

    You make this seem so cost effective, seems as if nothing goes to waste !

  • @squishyxout
    @squishyxout 5 місяців тому +1

    I don't know what you do with all your note sheets, but if you keep them, I would love a video on how much gold you lose over the course of 6 months or so, and a follow up on refining the gold waste from that time to see how much of your "lost" gold is recovered in the long run.

  • @dizzious
    @dizzious 5 місяців тому

    Thanks! I had forgotten about this method.

  • @rosaestrellareateguimarin3273
    @rosaestrellareateguimarin3273 3 місяці тому

    Me encanta ver sus videos son geniales,yo hice el proceso pero con hierro y se metalizo muy bien el cloruro de plata que procese de restos de plata sucia,salio una buena calidad de plata,ahora voy a experimentar con este proceso suyo... bendiciones!!!

  • @ArielleViking
    @ArielleViking 5 місяців тому

    Very spectacular reactions, I loved that you showed the temperature of these. Awesome ❤👍🏻

  • @whatthefunction9140
    @whatthefunction9140 6 місяців тому +12

    🎶 a spoon full of sugar makes the silver drop right out 🎶

    • @BigFrankieC
      @BigFrankieC 6 місяців тому +1

      I was thinking, "Some spoons full of sugar makes the chemicals erupt, in the most delightful way."

  • @dlplow
    @dlplow 6 місяців тому

    I was worried you weren’t gonna get a video out on Easter! I appreciate all your work that you do. I love all your content!

  • @Hillbilly-Tech
    @Hillbilly-Tech 5 місяців тому

    Wow! Had a Mythbuster's vibe.. :) Thank your Sreetips. Proof what Sugar does to the Human Body. 😁

  • @spencermaiers8322
    @spencermaiers8322 6 місяців тому

    All this knowledge and techniques! Impressive as always boss. Really fabulous.

  • @NAFOARMY
    @NAFOARMY 5 місяців тому

    This is just the video I needed!

  • @jimwednt1229
    @jimwednt1229 6 місяців тому

    Nothing short of amazement!
    When i ponder the periodic table and chemistry in particular, i see everything follows a specific set of laws, I am not convinced that it's a result of pure chance

  • @RectifiedMetals
    @RectifiedMetals 6 місяців тому +2

    I’ll take what little silver chloride I collect and use soda ash to convert it in the crucible. I just don’t like the amount of waste water I get from this method. I’m glad you did another take. I forgot how exothermic this reaction is.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому

      Silver chloride with sodium carbonate reduction to pure silver in a hot crucible. I’ve never tried it. Harold_V said it will boil over if you don’t leave enough room in the crucible.

    • @RectifiedMetals
      @RectifiedMetals 6 місяців тому

      @@sreetips yes that is true, and the soda ash will eat crucibles. I have very little hanging around. I use an old beat up crucible in the furnace, while I make my silver shot.

  • @gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730
    @gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730 6 місяців тому

    very cool to see how you process the silver chlorides, i like the use of the siphons

  • @willy480able
    @willy480able 6 місяців тому +2

    I think you make Bigstack cry when you throw out copper.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      I don’t he’d like the highly contaminated copper from my waste treatment bucket. It’s pretty much waste at that point.

    • @benjaminforman8901
      @benjaminforman8901 5 місяців тому

      🤣🤣 I can see his subtitles now... "But... but the COPPER!!!😭😭" LOL

  • @Matt-xw1xx
    @Matt-xw1xx 3 місяці тому

    According to wikipedia, silver hydroxide spontaneously decays to silver oxide and water.

  • @shaneyork300
    @shaneyork300 5 місяців тому

    When you put the sugar in its like its got a mind of its own!

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      Like a two hundred degree monster.

  • @debcamp2359
    @debcamp2359 5 місяців тому

    Great lesson. Very cool process.

  • @wayneneher6362
    @wayneneher6362 6 місяців тому +2

    Chief, with the price of copper going up you might want to salvage the copper from your treatment buckets.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому +1

      Even if it doubles, spending time to recover and refine it suitable for use would be way more than just buying clean copper. Even double, it’s still cheap and plentiful.

    • @wayneneher6362
      @wayneneher6362 5 місяців тому

      @@sreetips I don't think I'd refine it much further than it cements out, just go bulk buckets and recycle it. Just a random thought from a fan.

  • @bradleyj.fortner2203
    @bradleyj.fortner2203 6 місяців тому +1

    Yeah, this looks a lot more messy than using nitric acid and copper. Fortunately you don't have to do it very often and it does make good content. Thanks for another interesting video.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому +1

      I know another refiner who swears by using lye and sugar to get pure silver. His claim is that you get 3 nines silver without using the silver cell, “and you get your palladium, if any, up front.”

  • @micahpaul20
    @micahpaul20 6 місяців тому

    I really enjoy your videos and I’m thinking about starting an electrolytic silver cell. It’s very interesting and a great way to get silver vs paying over spot prices.

  • @Pablo668
    @Pablo668 6 місяців тому

    Pretty fascinating stuff this. It's like practical chemistry.

  • @darkhorsegarage9623
    @darkhorsegarage9623 5 місяців тому

    😅 “if you do it right” and if not you will be looking at the down stairs neighbor through the floor.

  • @thebarryman
    @thebarryman 6 місяців тому

    Wow, what a reaction! Great stuff Sreetips

  • @claudiosantana3320
    @claudiosantana3320 6 місяців тому

    Thnk u, for explaining and showing along, u are gold

  • @SpartanONegative
    @SpartanONegative 5 місяців тому

    You are a great Alchemist Sreetips 🏴‍☠️✨

  • @MADDLADO1
    @MADDLADO1 5 місяців тому

    Very interesting.

  • @LiborTinka
    @LiborTinka 5 місяців тому

    Although sugar is readily available, other reductants such as formaldehyde or formate might give you much cleaner product.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      I like sugar because it’s in everyone’s pantry

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      I didn’t know those would work.

  • @WizardVespian
    @WizardVespian 5 місяців тому

    Have you noticed how that brown liquid smells like burnt sugar? It’s because it is! the sugar, in reducing the silver oxide to silver metal, becomes oxidized itself.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      I can’t smell it because the fume hood draws it away

  • @richardwarnock2789
    @richardwarnock2789 5 місяців тому +1

    Remembering found some old silver stash that someone back in 50's robbed buried along some road documented the guy got prison time because he got caught by finger prints before he could dig up loot got kill in a car accident ! I Had to turn the loot did get some the silver back in coins as a reward but left it with my mom when I was in the service then geuss what she was robbed ! 😂

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      That’s incredible.

  • @jboyette
    @jboyette 5 місяців тому

    I always wondered about the waste. I knew you didnt dump it down the drain. What an interesting setup you have. You ever get to go on vacation? Seems like you always have something to do or refine. Thanks for the great content. I dont know if I'll ever have enough scrap around to try. All the retiree's beat me to the good stuff. Ha.

  • @darrellsmith5395
    @darrellsmith5395 5 місяців тому

    Looking forward to part 2

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      In progress.

  • @Ellis157
    @Ellis157 6 місяців тому +1

    werewolf and Vampire Bulit making material lol

  • @2001pulsar
    @2001pulsar 5 місяців тому

    Adding some salt to the rinse water reduces the tendency of the silver to be suspended.

  • @meredithnavin1358
    @meredithnavin1358 5 місяців тому

    If you don't want the copper, you can always send it to me! It's my favourite metal!

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      It would cost more to clean it up and ship it than it’s worth.

    • @meredithnavin1358
      @meredithnavin1358 5 місяців тому

      @@sreetips that's true.
      I'd love to see a copper refining video, though.

  • @_VLLC
    @_VLLC 5 місяців тому

    You always could do a "contaminated copper bar" subscriber giveaway

  • @StefanShorko
    @StefanShorko 6 місяців тому

    Good work team

  • @wadebert4458
    @wadebert4458 5 місяців тому

    I thought I should add that the Red solution is a product out of the first stock pot I ever filled, over a year ago. I harvested silver, some gold and am left with this Red solution.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      I’ve see platinum solutions that are red. Test with stannous to confirm.

  • @SpartanONegative
    @SpartanONegative 5 місяців тому

    Excellent Work Sreetips 🏴‍☠️ Thank you for sharing with us. God Bless 🙏 Hail Science 🧪

  • @gerard8496
    @gerard8496 6 місяців тому

    hey tips long time no see ,now your just showing what i like about you ever want to show your folks working my claim in new mex

  • @dbaca148
    @dbaca148 25 днів тому +1

    thank you sreetips. so cool. what ratio of silver chloride and lye do you find that works. then ratio of silver oxide and sugar?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  25 днів тому +1

      I’m not quite sure about that. I add lye until it turns a uniform jet-black color. Then enough sugar, a little at a time, until no more reaction occurs.

  • @JoshuaZangari
    @JoshuaZangari 6 місяців тому +1

    Just sell the copper at a recycling center.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому

      They won’t take it, it’s highly contaminated with other metals, mostly iron.

  • @jamesd4013
    @jamesd4013 5 місяців тому

    amazing

  • @RollingRoadEFI
    @RollingRoadEFI 6 місяців тому +2

    I think the orange color is cuprous oxide

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому +1

      Had to look it up, I think you may be right.

  • @brianevans1851
    @brianevans1851 6 місяців тому +1

    Where do you dispose of treated chemicals ive alway wondered about that is there a place you take it or is it safe enough for thd drain asking because if i try to refine i want to be doing it properly that includes getting rid of the waste Happy Easter SREETIPS another great informative video

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому +1

      Happy Easter. I treat the liquid so that’s is almost safe enough to drink. I dry the metal hydroxides to moist cakes, add it to the land fill. But you should check with your local regs.

    • @brianevans1851
      @brianevans1851 6 місяців тому

      @@sreetips that is awesome I had no idea you could remove all the toxicity that is amazing I use to work for a hydrovac company we were tasked with clean up of toxic spills I know when that ammonia train derailed in Oklahoma years ago it took months we had to remove 6 foot of soil and send it to a plant to clean the soil and we had neutralizers as well we used that job took months and months even though it paid excellent money I had enough and got a job at Caterpillar much safer job and paid well but it was nasty that spill

  • @DudeNamedRed
    @DudeNamedRed 5 місяців тому

    You could make back all the losses refining copper using it for added content. I'd be curious to see you do it once. But i get the economics aren't there.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      I’ve got so much silver, gold and platinum group stuff. Wasting time on copper just doesn’t make sense for me. I’m worried about running out of time before I can get everything done!

    • @DudeNamedRed
      @DudeNamedRed 5 місяців тому

      @@sreetips well that's not the worst problem to have 🤣

  • @wesleysmith995
    @wesleysmith995 6 місяців тому

    This is cool , but why didn't you use a very fine filter to separate it. Would have been quicker, and less time consuming.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      Didn’t think of it

  • @freddurstedgebono6029
    @freddurstedgebono6029 5 місяців тому

    Would love to see a copper refining cell. The copper purified could probably at least cover some costs of like acids and other consumables

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      It would cost more in supplies and fuel than it would to just buy it. Clean copper is cheap and plentiful.

  • @eyeLikeCarrots
    @eyeLikeCarrots 5 місяців тому

    The silver sell is definetly less work!

  • @matthewsemenuk7544
    @matthewsemenuk7544 5 місяців тому

    Wouldn't scrap yards (with its own copper furnace) still take that contaminated copper? Maybe if that copper was melted into shot and let sit in water to rust out the ferrous metal? Just thinking of how to get a few bucks a lb for that stuff for scrap. Worst case might get brass prices?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      They won’t touch it

  • @jimirk6226
    @jimirk6226 5 місяців тому

    Put that scrap copper waste on E bay see if you get a bite?

  • @stevenjones916
    @stevenjones916 5 місяців тому

    I have never seen the "Mary Poppins method" before. Just a spoon full of sugar... 😂. Fascinating stuff.

  • @ExtractingMetals
    @ExtractingMetals 5 місяців тому

    The lye and sugar method produces a lot of waste. How do you process the waste?

  • @MangoMousse888
    @MangoMousse888 10 днів тому

    Nice

  • @wesleysmith995
    @wesleysmith995 6 місяців тому

    Also , Keep up the Great Work

  • @chadvail4436
    @chadvail4436 4 дні тому +1

    If my first batch didn’t have enough lye , could I use the poor off and add more silver and start the reaction again ? I’m gunna try it because mine didn’t boil it got hot didn’t boil .. so now it’s settling I will wait till morning and see what kinda mess I have

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  4 дні тому +1

      I’ve had mine not boil.

    • @chadvail4436
      @chadvail4436 2 дні тому

      @@sreetips I was not a fan of the lye and sugar method , I even bought the stick blender like you have so I could mix well and it was just a big headache , so I looked into other ways and found that if you take the washed silver chloride with just a little water and put it into a Pyrex dish with a couple drops of sulphuric acid and put aluminum (I used a heat sync off computer fan ) then cover it within hours it’s all converted like magic just rinse and melt !! There was a good video online about it not sure if you tried that method but for me never again will I use lye sugar … probably just copper to cement it out

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  2 дні тому +1

      @chadvail4436 I’ve seen the aluminum with sulfuric. But aluminum forms compounds that can be troublesome so I never use it in any of my processes.

  • @rafaelstauffer1
    @rafaelstauffer1 6 місяців тому

    Muito bom! Porque você não recupera o cobre também? Não poderia fundir ele novamente?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому +1

      No, it’s heavily contaminated with other metals. Getting it suitable for use in refining silver would cost more than just buying clean copper. It’s cheap and plentiful.

    • @rafaelstauffer1
      @rafaelstauffer1 5 місяців тому

      tnks now a I get @@sreetips

  • @GokouZWAR
    @GokouZWAR 6 місяців тому

    This is really amazing. Have you thought of using ice throughout the sugar phase to help control the temp or is the heat needed for a proper reaction?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому

      I didn’t think of that. But at temps, ice wouldn’t last long. It was greater than the boiling point of water.

  • @marcyd2007
    @marcyd2007 5 місяців тому

    Are you not able to take the copper that you recover and use it in your silver treatment bucket? Is it too impure? Surely you would just have to melt it into ingots and re-use it.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      Clean copper for refining is cheap and plentiful. It would cost more to try to get the waste copper suitable to be used for refining.

  • @guachingman
    @guachingman 5 місяців тому

    thought the bucket was for an ice bath, would that help in any way or do you want the boiling to happen

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      I don’t think ice would keep that reaction cool. I put it in the bucket to capture if it boiled over - that’s happened before.

  • @kyzercube
    @kyzercube 6 місяців тому +1

    Sreetips, does the Silver Chloride have a " chlorine " smell to it or does it smell like something all together different?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому +1

      I don’t think is has a smell,

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому +1

      I think it’s odorless, like table salt.

  • @Lancelot.666
    @Lancelot.666 6 місяців тому

    Love the content my friend. Have you ever refined gold nuggets?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      No, but I’ve refined placer gold.

  • @ElijahPerrin80
    @ElijahPerrin80 5 місяців тому

    I realize chlorine/ tap water is ok with NaCl but how is chloramine or the polyacrylamides used in flocculation among other minerals that preexisted or leach in during transport effect Silver Chloride?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      I don’t know.

  • @bedouintrader
    @bedouintrader 2 місяці тому

    how sodium Hydroxide converts silver chloride to silver oxide ???
    I thought (and learned in the school) it converts to silver hydroxide

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  2 місяці тому +1

      I don’t know, but I found this on balancing chemical equations: 2AgCl + 2NaOH = Ag2O + 2NaCl + H2O as a legitimate chemical equation. I’m not a trained chemist.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  2 місяці тому +1

      Source: chemicalaid.com

  • @jimfleming3975
    @jimfleming3975 5 місяців тому

    Rinsing with Charleston tap water?

  • @ciorchinos
    @ciorchinos 6 місяців тому

    I am curious how do you know it spatters averiwhere 🙄😬

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      Because it happened to me once.

  • @DenWhitton
    @DenWhitton 6 місяців тому

    Instead of hydrochloric acid to precipitate the silver chloride, would salt work? It has the Cl ions for the chloride, and should give you sodium nitrate as waste. Unless you want the nitric acid as waste.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      I’ve know it can be used, but I’ve never tried it. It’s so easy to just pour the acid.

  • @Hannahbananasmile
    @Hannahbananasmile 6 місяців тому

    Why siphon out of the beakers instead of pouring? Less chance of powder leaving the beaker?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      To prevent any silver chloride from leaving the beaker.

  • @richardchayer6597
    @richardchayer6597 6 місяців тому

    Where is a good place online to buy silver for a good price? I just don't want to be ripped off. So many scammers now I dont know who to trust. Thanks

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому +2

      We buy silver at local sales. It’s cheap and plentiful. Almost like copper.

  • @thebhut3446
    @thebhut3446 5 місяців тому

    I got some silver chloride in my silver stock pot along with the cemented silver and other metals. Any tips on how to separate that when I go to refine my silver stock pot?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      If it were mine, and I had silver chloride in my silver stock pot, I’d just ignore it and dissolve everything in nitric to start with. Then just filter it out with the insoluble gold and PGMs.

  • @matthewsemenuk7544
    @matthewsemenuk7544 5 місяців тому

    Red Hot Devil! 99+% pure :)

  • @reallife7375
    @reallife7375 6 місяців тому

    Would you just look at it👍👍😅

  • @tewksindahat
    @tewksindahat 6 місяців тому

    Can the chloride be burned off in a kiln?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому

      I think so, with sodium carbonate, and lots of heat.

  • @bedouintrader
    @bedouintrader 2 місяці тому

    3:50
    what was that tube between these two buckets ??

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  2 місяці тому +1

      I used pvc tubing to transfer liquids.

    • @bedouintrader
      @bedouintrader 2 місяці тому

      @@sreetips
      I am talking about the tube with that rod inserted in the bucket lid ...

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  2 місяці тому +1

      Oh, that’s connected to a fish tank air pump. I bubble air into it to create some movement of the liquid, to stir it.

  • @deanfranklin6870
    @deanfranklin6870 5 місяців тому

    Are you going to melt into shot and run through your cell?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      Yes, in part two

  • @Ilovegold
    @Ilovegold 6 місяців тому

    Kinda off video topic for the day, so the aqua regia will put the gold foils from GF material because it’s so thin? If so can I put real thin karat material into a GF batch? Like say earring studs beat flat?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому

      I don’t know, I’ve never tried that. But it seems like it should. The only problem is if there’s lots of silver in the karat alloy of that beaten gold.

  • @michaelcocayne8395
    @michaelcocayne8395 6 місяців тому

    Sreetips, have you run the cost on making copper through electrolysis ? I heard it Pennies to run and you will get the slimes to process for other precious metals…

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому

      No, I don’t spend much time with copper. I can get clean copper for refining. It’s cheap and plentiful.

  • @linn1934
    @linn1934 5 місяців тому

    Does it make bad fumes?

  • @carlburdick1855
    @carlburdick1855 5 місяців тому

    Are you ever tempted to use surfactants with powdery pmgs?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      I’ve never tried it

    • @carlburdick1855
      @carlburdick1855 5 місяців тому

      @sreetips I see a lot of people using Jet Dry dish detergent when panning fine gold, but if I were you, I would definitely research any potential reactions before implementing it.

  • @ciorchinos
    @ciorchinos 6 місяців тому

    if you weigth the silver cloride you can use chat GPT to compute for you how many moles of salt u need to convert 1 to 1 perfectly 🤫

    • @hantrio4327
      @hantrio4327 6 місяців тому

      ChatGPT is too stupid for that. It can't even balance reaction equations

  • @gerard8496
    @gerard8496 6 місяців тому

    bravo another fine presentation ,just told dan hurd to grind a perfect sun style in a piece of b .c. ocean picture stoneif the rock will heat and take a pour of 999 au that stone goes from 10 to 100

  • @kimberlynolz5725
    @kimberlynolz5725 5 місяців тому

    Which one u think drops a cleaner gold oxolic acid or copperous, (iron sulfate)?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      They say oxalic acid is a “polishing step” which means it’s best used on gold that’s fairly high purity to begin with. Ferrous sulfate is good for gold in solution with PGMs.

    • @kimberlynolz5725
      @kimberlynolz5725 5 місяців тому

      Wats the trick to using oxolic? All attempts so far have failed

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      Both solutions must be very hot, boiling if possible. Plus the pH of the oxalic acid solution must because up around pH5 or higher before the reaction will work properly. I used ammonia to raise the pH of the oxalic acid, because that’s what book calls for.

  • @CuttinEJ
    @CuttinEJ 6 місяців тому

    How do you know the resulting mud is 999 fine? Have you ever had a sample assayed?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому +1

      Yes, plus you should see the little blue streaks on the poured bars from this silver. Silver chloride conversion makes some very high purity silver.

    • @CuttinEJ
      @CuttinEJ 6 місяців тому

      @@sreetips why would there be blue streaks?

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому +1

      Don’t know, but they are beautiful. Something to do with how the high purity silver reflects. Not sure.

  • @scotthultin7769
    @scotthultin7769 6 місяців тому +1

    First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 🤗

  • @RobinSoto-nb7th
    @RobinSoto-nb7th 5 місяців тому

    Where my ladies at lmao on the last thread they showed themselves and then deleted their comments. Not just here. It happens even at the bank. I'm being followed. Lmao. They always do that and then I go crazy lmao. Like barbarian caveman SpongeBob looking all around confused... HI

  • @MrTk6969
    @MrTk6969 6 місяців тому

    Have you ever had this reaction not GO. A few times I went to convert AgCl to Ag and it never converted to Ag. It just stayed as AgO.

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому

      I’ve never had that happen.

  • @carlosalmeida4415
    @carlosalmeida4415 5 місяців тому

    The only time sugar is good for you.

  • @reallife7375
    @reallife7375 6 місяців тому +1

    400th like.

  • @dlplow
    @dlplow 6 місяців тому

    Do you stack copper and resell it? Copper 4$ a pound lol

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      No, I use it to refine silver. Clean copper for refining is cheap and plentiful.

  • @whatthefunction9140
    @whatthefunction9140 6 місяців тому +3

    Melt up some copper to give away to your fans

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  6 місяців тому

      This is highly impure copper. It would not melt and pour well at all.

  • @theonewhowas7709
    @theonewhowas7709 5 місяців тому

    please stop chewing on your tongue and lips with the microphone at your mouth...
    if you had a headset on you'd know why I'm asking...
    idk what the deal is why people do that.. but im asking in the nicest way possible..
    cause i really enjoy your videos an everthing..!!!

    • @sreetips
      @sreetips  5 місяців тому

      I’ll put in I stick gum, that should cover it up.

    • @theonewhowas7709
      @theonewhowas7709 5 місяців тому

      cool.. thanks...
      i appreciate you not getting mad or upset about
      i wasnt meaning it in an insulting way or anything..
      but im sure you know what i meant
      thanks for the reply!
      im sure other people notice too just they hadnt said anything..
      i really like your videos im working on getting stuff stocked up to do the same thing@@sreetips