WHATS INSIDE? DISSOLVING ROCKS WITH TABLE VINEGAR
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2017
- What's inside these two rocks when etched? Looking for crystals by dissolving calcite in simple table vinegar for two weeks. I had to refresh the vinegar multiple times in this experiment.
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Rock hunting becomes an addicttion that some people just don't understand. Oneday I'll be known as that crazy rock lady 🤪
Better than a house full of cats. LOL
Same here i feel ya
One day, why not today?.
I always have pretty bright shiny little creek stones in my pockets, purse laundry, falling out and under my hubby's feet lol. And buckets of big stones, fossils, holy stones and quartz boulders. I'm always looking down and if not that then looking at what others have thrown away I found big flat screen TV, cellphones and working coffee pot in box with instructions in the garbage today so many people have no idea of the precious metals they are throwing away. I gotta say my husband isn't liking the addition of stepping on loose screws from my scrapping as well as pointy pebbles. He always looks at my pretty rocks and trash treasures with out to much head shaking tho so I feel pretty lucky. Great video!
CRAZY ROCK LADY , DID YOU KNOW THAT THE ROCKS ARE BODY PARTS FROM PEOPLE AND ANIMALS BEFORE THE FLOOD ?
*This* is what the internet is for - absolute passion passed on. Great stuff, really. 🇬🇧
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Its like Christmas 365 days a year when im totally emerged into digging sifting through streams and river shores. Nice video
A plethora of presents? Nice comment. I am the same. A day rockhounding just flys by.
What do you do with your finds? Display them? Give them away? Sell or trade? Just curious
It is so cool to be able to define rocks with ordinary vinegar.I have been doing it to some mystery rocks,and it clears up a few mysteries!
This is something I have never heard of or seen really, even though I used to collect and tumble rocks when I was a kid. Admittedly it was a phase that didn't last long, but seeing what kind of beauty can lay inside certain stones and revealed with mere vinegar is astounding! I'm glad I clicked on the sidebar, it rarely lets me down. Time to binge! And while I am out tomorow, I'll start keeping my eyes out for rocks with potential and get some rotgut vinegar!
Remarkable is an understatement by far! Went from a bad-ass rock to a fabulous gift from the Earth!!
The passion for rocks is real . Your material is very helpful for everyone thanks
It's my pleasure
I wish I had the love for rocks and minerals years ago like I do now. Not just those but just about anything found in the wilderness. I'm so frigging crazy for the hunt that I found myself hunting around in the parking lot of a 24 hr walmart store. I found a big 14 ct. Hoop earring that had been run over many times. It paid for most of my food that day.
I have rocks that I fished out of a lime rock quarry in Central Florida. I use vinegar to dissolve The Lime Rock to find fossils inside. Vinegar is a great thing.
The best time to plant a tree is years ago or today....I have also look at rock in crazy locations. Last weekend, I checked out limestone landscaping rocks while visiting a hospital. There were some nice little vugs with calcite and fluorite crystals and some fossils. It would have been bad form to start hacking away at them. LOL
tess99991 glad I'm not the only one who does these things. Ive found some beauties on freshly laid gravel roads at music festivals.
Bernie Cat Yes! I sat down on the bank of the Suwannee River in Florida one time. I looked to my left and they were some black rocks in the mud. I just started flicking it one with my finger not thinking anything and I pulled out a beautiful black Arrowhead.
Nice find! I used to hunt for arrowheads in plowed fields, but mostly I got chips or broken points.
Collecting rocks at a rock concert. Love it. Also, I bet one could find some interesting dropped rock or crystal after a good music festival. LOL I had to say it before someone else....
Rocks can tell a story about soils, water and the environment! Thanks for the video ! I will have to try this !
You should have the before and after photos side by side on all your stuff. SO awesome!
I have loved rock hunting since I was a little girl and still love it. That's my hobby that I love doing 😊
Your desire for exploration and discovery is to be admired,patience for the win.
Thanks for the nice comment
The 2nd one is gorgeous. Love them both. Never knew you could do this. :D
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I literally just started rock hounding three days ago and I’m addicted!
Enjoy!
Good to know to use vinegar to disolve rocks. Those are nice finds. I used to be interested in geology and collect when I was young, I think that interest is coming back.
This is the coolest thing I've seen! I am dissolving sand in vinegar right now to make a mineral slurry for my garden. As the vinegar evaporates it gets stronger. I'm going to try this! Bravo for innovating with a low tech cheap process and for sharing.
Thank you for sharing. I am etching with my daughters and it's a great experience to teach them, tied in with e-commerce. Patience and determination. Your videos inspire me to take time out to appreciate life. What's before you every day that you choose to see or not see. 🙂
Good luck with your projects. Sometimes there are some great crystals hiding inside.
That is gorgeous. Glad I stumbled on this random video.
Ditto
Me too it was meant.
That was a great experiment with fabulous results. Thank you.
I enjoyed this presentation. Thank you for showing your experience about stones.
That's pretty cool looking!!!
Thanks!
I'm going to try this on a bunch of rocks that I have just to see what's inside, thanks!
Wow that's a beautiful specimen of a rock ! 👍😃
Wow. Beautiful! Thanks for the tip!
I think the cloudy white crystal part inside the big rock is the best looking. :)
That would be the calcite, and I was feeling the same way. I would have rather split the rock than dissolve it like that.
Wow i really enjoyed that...brought back childhood memories
Cool video, thanks for uploading!! I love the Pirate, it's fascinated me for many years.
Wow, I love rocks and these were beautiful. That Pyrite, wowza. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
This is soooooo ccoooooollll!!! Just what I need though, another hobby! Can't wait to try it this summer. Mwaaahaaahaahaaahaaa!
Exelent and informative video!
Wow! Thanks for sharing! I just found a rock on a river bank this weekend that appears to be limestone with calcite cross cutting and I'm going to try this!
Thanks for taking the time to do this.
I have been an overly enthusiastic geoscience lover since i was a child, i love seeing stuff like this! So thank you for sharing, it turned out WAY TOOOO FREAKIN COOL! :) ... Could you share the rough location of your finds? And never stop making videos like this lol
Wow, I didn't know that could be done. Interesting!
Awesome. I finally got to see what my rocks look like. Thanks for the cleaning tip I appreciate you. I have the coolest big rocks that I dug up out of the Navada desert by myself. God bless you and your rocks are beautiful.
Rock on!
I love this! Beautiful pieces!
The last one (with the pyrite) is a great display specimen.
Wow, that's so cool!!! I can't wait to try it ♥
Awesome video! The rocks turned out killer!
I'm so glad I saw this video. I got access to all sorts of rock that's going in vinegar tomorrow.
It's amazing what common vinegar can do besides making great pickles :D
Sure. It is also great to kill ants or clean the toilet. LOL
wizbangIWD - it will also remove rust in a mix of half water, half vinegar. The water keeps it from pitting the metal.
When I drove for Pony Express years ago, they used to put vinegar in water tanks of the vans that were used for cleaning the window. it cleaned the windows great but it didn't take long ( 2 days to be exact ) for all the drivers to start complaining about the overwhelming smell of vinegar. so they finally stopped adding it !
That is pretty funny. Pony Express trucks that smell like a school cafeteria on french fry day.
We may have delivered food to schools Tess, we delivered a kinds of trash ! LOL
You can sometimes find glacial vinegar in stores, much higher acidity and still cheap and relatively safe. Cool project. Also freeze distiling can easily up your acidity as well.
Great advice. Thanks
What do you mean by frez distiling?
@@jessewilson6668 it's correctly called "fractional freezing" but commonly known as freeze distilling. It will raise the acidity of vinegar by removing some of the water through freezing. The acidic vinegar has a lower freezing temperature than water. This link explains the very easy process. homesteady.com/12283339/how-to-perform-freeze-distillation
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Love the second rock. Very nice.
Nicely done video, enjoyed the inside look.
ohhhh thank you!! I've been prospecting around my area and i have several rocks with beautiful clear or black or green or blue minerals but didn't know what to do. So all i did was try to clean beat i could with water and brush. this is much better thank you thank you!
For sure it is an option. If the minerals are solid, you can also consider slicing and polishing. I will show that soon in a video as soon as I put a new blade on my tile saw.
tess99991 awesome! I look forward to it!
tess99991 crap you gotta excuse me. I literally just learned where to go for notifications . Dang. Ill skim through the videos. I watch so many documentaries, i get caught up and away with them i lose time and forget my prospecting videos, lll pay more attention from now on lthough lol & thanks for responding and the videos
Ash.Asher. Yeah, I can do the same. Sometimes the internet will swoop you off your path. I just try not to let it take,me to dark places.
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Say.. if there happened to be a large 24 ton limestone rock buried in a Spanish desert, how much gallons of vinegar would be needed to dissolve it?
LOL
20 million gallons
We have stones
Okay sure.
How much limestone does one gallon dissolve. Easy math, but a heck of a project.
I have the correct sollution to this, the answer is.......A lot.
Thank you for saying how long you gave it. Very helpful!
WOW, I LOVE that second rock!
Wow that's beautiful man nice job,,, you have a really cool voice 😎
Thanks much!
@meMiner As Chip said “You have a really cool voice”
Have you ever considered doing voices for audio books, commercials, dubbed movies, educational videos etc?
You have the kind of voice people instinctively trust.
Nice video, thanks!
The Bob Ross of rocks
That's not fools gold that's my...my precious.
Scotian Coast
Ok Cheney. LOL
Very neat - thank you for sharing, and for having the patience to do this.
It was fun. Thanks for the nice comment.
Wow! So cool! Your like the Bob Ross of nature’s little secrets!
Those are happy Little Rock’s!
ROCK ON ! 🤘🏼😝🤘🏼
Hey that was cool thank you for showing me this
That is amazing!! I'm going to buy vinegar today!!
Thanks!
Good luck.
I have A Beautiful Multi Colours Rough Stone
Amazing what you can do with a little vinegar and time! Thanks sooooooo much, I know what I'll be buying!
Absolutely gorgeous! I can't wait to try this myself!!
Good luck. Stay safe.
Neat bro I like crystals I got 16 different types of crystals
Nice video! Looks like Chalcopyrite, pyrite and baryte in the calcite vein. Weird that there is no galena in there as calcite usually picks that up. Othee specimen looked like molybdenite and epidote (odd combination) have you done a scratch test with your fingernail on the black stuff?
Loved the look of the last rock, never thought of using vinegar I have tried lemons that have sat for a week and then used their juice it dissolves and cleans the way I want to as I like the looks of my rocks from when I pick them up. lol
Very nice results!
I have a rock with a plant inside you can see I found when walking home from school it’s pretty cool looking
Jewels of a belly dancer!!
They came out beautiful keep up the good work. Rock on!
Thanks Gabriela. Love your name. When I was 15 I had a crush on a girl with the same name. Never told her. ;-)
@@meMiner Well meMiner thanks that you love my name. Funny when I was in grade school the boys would tease me about my name. Yes it was a same you never told her. What state do you live in?
It's like listening to the Bob Ross of rocks! Thank you for the lovely video.
I have heard that Bob Ross thing before and still don't know if it is a good or bad comment. hahaha
@@meMiner from me, it's a good thing!
You know, there's programs you can get that let you import a series of pictures of an object, to generate a 3D model of it. It'd be fascinating to see an animated 3D model of the rocks dissolving like that.
I have not tried any but know there are a number of programs which are free and better ones if you are willing to pay. Google '3d image maker".
That was super cool! Did you put fresh vinegar each time ♥
Thank you for sharing. I'm new to this and never heard of disolving parts before. Anyway, that second one is beautiful!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the upload am an opal miner here at Lightning Ridge NSW Australia but I do a lot of traveling and am always picking up rocks never thought of using vinegar
Does Pyrite turn reddish the more iron it contains than sulphur? I'm guessing the black mineral might be magnetite.
Considering where the rock was collected (old iron mine), magnetite is a good guess. Pyrite can be reddish and looks brown in the shade.
Magnetite might be detectable with a compass?
could the black mineral be biotite??
it's beautiful,protect your place,..do not sell your earth.@Trely Agguran
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Can you use Muriatic acid to clean flourite crystals or does it harm them? I have my first specimen of purple flourite that I found, but it seems there's some calcite mixed in with iron oxide, and I'd like to remove that!
Fluorite is soluable in HCL. ie. muriatic will destroy it. Only method that I know to extract fluorite from calcite is mechanically...maybe a dremel?
Can't wait to try this on my found rocks. Thanks for the information.
It is a fun thing to do with the right rocks. Good luck with your project
Gorgeous that second one!! ♡
Hot vinegar is more kick solution & don't wait 2 days
Ditto
neptuneP2V7 ++
I love the way the 2nd one looks. Have you ever thought about getting together with another UA-cam channel (or maybe you could do it yourself) that works with resins? I bet the 2nd one would look even more amazing if you could figure out a way to fill the negative space inside of it with a colored transparent resin.
I have worked with resins before, but not on rocks. It is an interesting thought to turn the rock into a craft. For sure, there would be some negative comments on a video as some people hate when anything is added to a natural rock. LOL
tess99991 Yeah I figured there would. Was hoping that by only adding resin to the negative space inside, while leaving all the outer surface of the rock natural would be a good middle ground between both sides...
@@mkisner8060 great idea!
BEAUTIFUL rocks!
Very cool mate . Love the pyrite specimen. Have to give it a go.
I love rocks, I save as many as I can
Than I am sure you garden looks like mine. Rocks everywhere. LOL
I basically try to bring the Earth inside my apt. By having as many rocks as I can. Doubles of most. Lol
That is the coolest thing I have ever seen ! I wished I had known about this years ago ! I love rocks and collect them from everywhere. What kind of rocks were those ? Can any type of rock do ? I'm getting out my bucket and vinegar now !! Thank You !
There are a number of minerals affected by different kinds of acid and others that are not. The key is to remove what you don't want and keep what you do want (so pick the correct acid). Vinegar works really good for etching calcite and many times there are nice crystals hidden within calcite that remain unaffected. If you google search "mineral solubility table", you can see what acid to use for different minerals.
WOW that is super duper cool lol huh thank you for sharing that display!🔮
Thanks for such a nice comment. ;-)
Awesome experiment. I love the results you got. I may have to try that.
It works well if you have patience.
Very interesting I did not know you could dissolve with vinegar ! would muriatic acid work faster ?
Muriatic is faster. Vinegar is safer and seems to be less expensive.
patprop74 I tried it with hydrogen peroxide but didn't know about vinegar.
i. CaCO3 + HCl ---> Ca2+ 2Cl- + HCO3-
So calcite + hydrochloric acid (or many other types of acid) gives calcium ions and bicarbonate ions. Ca forms an insoluble ion complex woth Chlorine and other common acid anions.
I used muriatic acid and it did nothing....but cool if this works
Bow Toome It should definitely work with muriatic if you are trying to dissolve calcite, or powdered dolomite. We geologists actually carry a small bottle of HCl in the field to conduct tests on minerals. One of the characteristic traits of calcite is that it dissolves and effervesces on contact with muriatic acid. You're either trying to dissolve dolomite, which is CaMg(CO3)2 and only dissolves properly once powdered, or you are using dilute acid instead of conc. Or what you're trying to dissolve may look like calcite when it really is not, e.g. microcrystalline anorthite.
Ever thought of using a stronger solution of vinegar? For weed killing purposes, they sell a 20% solution. Common household vinegar is usually only about 5 %. It would be interesting to see what that increased solution would do.
It would be a good idea, but more expensive. If speed is needed, muriatic is another alternative. I will be getting out for more rock and hopefully some interesting ones later in Oct. More to play with...
Interesting thought. I'm not familiar with muriatic acid. I 'm afraid it might be too strong and will harm the soil. I live in South Texas where the typical new house lawns are merely sod over 'builders soil' ie poor quality dirt, rocks and the trash the builder has buried. I've tried adding truckloads of compost on top of my lawn with little success. I guess the expensive and labor intensive method is to till truckloads of organic matter into the lawn. I'm trying to bore holes at random thru out the yard, filling them with organic matter-coffee grounds are a favorite as they tend to discourage Texas fire ants.
starman1968ful The same thing but quicker lol
The best compost is dead leaves. People here throw them out in their garbage. As for muriatic, it is as effective as RoundUp, so not a good idea if you want to keep your plants.
Do you change the vinigar out daily?
Wow that second sample turned out great. Nice lookin specimen
Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
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This is fascinating! What do you do with these when you've finished using the vinegar?
You can See what another Minerals or Fossils are inside or If you See a fossil in limestone And you dont want to breake the fossil
Loved them both, incredible beauty!
Good to see people enjoying some of natures beauty.
is it ok to leave geodes in vinegar for a week to clean them?
Normally, yes. Of course, it depends what mineral (s) is inside the geode. Usually, they are quartz. Vinegar will not affect quartz, but should remove most stain and any carbonates. If there is just stain, the other thing to consider is Super Iron Out. Again, be careful so you do not destroy something you wanted to keep, but it typically should not affect the crystals in a geode. Hope that helps.
thanks so much! if they are quartz is it more effective soaking them in vinegar or bleach for cleaning/ stain removal? seems like it would be cheaper to use bleach unless it's not as effective as vinegar. can i soak them too long? i have a ton of geodes with staining that i pulled out of a creek bed. some of them are "typical", others are druzy and some are super fragile white crystals - they flake off and crumble easily. i'm guessing those are calcite? i'll try testing them with vinegar to see if they bubble. if they do, (i'm guessing that means they're calcite) is Iron Out the only option? i'm a noob so i have no clue what to do! thanks for your help!
The best advice is let the rock tell you what to do and don't leave them in any solution longer than necessary. Usually,, it is OK to put into vinegar, bleach or SIO for longer, as they are weak and simply stop working after a short while, whereby the solution needs to be refreshed. But again, better to take them out and rinse off when you have the result that you want. There are ways to harden rocks prior to cleaning, but I have not done any videos as I am still a novice at doing that. For cleaning, I always start with just dish soap. Then depending on the stain and the rock, I will normally try vinegar or SIO. I have not had good results with bleach. The other thing is don't mix your chemicals. Better to do them one at a time. I do SIO outside as there are some fumes.
shoot i was going to try ammonia and bleach - thought it'd have good cleaning power ;) thank you so much for the help! i'll try to listen to my rocks and see what they want. i think some of them like their stains.
For the love of God, DO NOT MIX BLEACH AND AMMONIA!! you will make chlorine gas and it will kill you, or make you wish you were dead and scar your lungs for the rest of your life, you will be in the hospital for months. A woman cleaned up some cat urine with a bucket of bleach water and a mop, she almost died. Just that little bit of ammonia in the urine and that little bit of bleach in the mop bucket.. yikes!
Good job....btw....No more health issues I hope.
Thanks for asking. All is good, regarding the health issues.
I’ve just come back from holiday in Cornwall with a rock or two - the best is a it’s a creamy coloured rock looks like a cloud with pale green inside with rusty veins. I love it, I can just sit looking at it and seeing so many shapes and patterns, it’s incredibly beautiful.
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Cool results indeed!
I have no idea what I just witnessed but that was cool. Can you do this with any rock ?
The rock needs to contain minerals that are affected by the acid plus minerals which are not. Very common is dolomite or calcite, which will readily etch in vinegar or muriatic acid (but not quartz). It is fun to try.
tess99991 Thank You : )
Limestone.
Me 2
tess99991 why not quartz?
Hannibal claimed to have cut his roads through the Alps using vinegar on the rocks....
Yeah. No. LOL
A clever early example of disinformation.
@@billtoenjes955 Maybe
Thanks for sharing life with enthusiasm
Look up mud fossil university and listen to what roger has to say about rocks. If you havnt already that is.
jeff is right its all dead bodies and signs of the truth the rocks scream out the mountains are thier bodies i know i sound crazy but get on google earth and look around africa and middle east then go look at the apaches last massacre sight then zoom out and bam thier they are. god bless friends
@@daniellawrence6160 wait, what exactly am I looking for ?
Roger has some videos that are shocking to say the least.
1987, brought stone poop back to life with 93% baking soda + odor= burnt electric
What is odor?
You made a stone life? I don't get it.
I took a dump in 1987.
I am guilty of rockhounding hoarding interesting rocks. I usually find the ones that have green or some blue on them, and expose them to vinegar. I just love the dark blue peacock ore looking oxide that forms on them. After I'm done with the Rock's I just put in my backyard in my custom Rock Garden. I just love how the weathering changes the rocks. They become way more colorful overtime or darker in appearance.
This is so cool looking! I just got a bunch of white quartz looking rocks and can’t wait to try this!
Won't work on quartz. If you really have calcite, have at it. ;-)
Omg i love pyrite n I think if i dissolved a rock and it turned into pyrite that would make my day even year lol..but there are rocks right down the road by this railroad n river that look just like your rocks. When i was little i would think they were remarkable but everyone told me they were just rocks . now i believe in healing benefits of crystals so i wonder if i try to dissolve any of those rocks would they have anything in them. I live in Alabama.
It is just me, but I don't waste acid on rocks unless they are showing a hint of something on the outside.
tess99991 ok thank you. I've watched more of your videos and i realized that. Lol..so I'm going to go try to look. I remember seeing what looked like pyrite and green pieces on some of them so I'll see. Thank you
It is always fun to try. Of course, more fun if a nice crystal appears. I with you the best of luck.
wish,, not with....
instead in believing in the power of stones etc. try HE who created those stones. I mean HE is that powerful to make the things you love HE still loves you more. try HIM or HIS beloved SON our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, you will be amazed.