I have no idea why a random cultured hobby machinist guy like myself is so absorbed into watching a professional do all this interesting chemistry and metalworking wizardry to make forbidden orange juice, but here we are.
@SuperDavidEF
Жыл бұрын
"Forbidden orange juice" NGL it looks really good! I never really liked the color of gold before. I always preferred silver (and white gold, but not yellow). Since I've been watching sreetips for a couple of years now, I'm really loving the pure gold that comes at the end of his videos! And the "forbidden orange juice" is probably one of my all-time favorite colors now. It's so beautiful.
@JossWaddy
Жыл бұрын
@@SuperDavidEF Ith forbidden juith for a reathon. trutht me.
@asakayosapro
Жыл бұрын
@@SuperDavidEF on the machinist side of things, we have forbidden confetti
@sirlancer23
Жыл бұрын
Wow start to finish edited and posted on the same day that's impressive! Well done!
@angelux079
Жыл бұрын
💯
@tgabe6163
Жыл бұрын
No kidding?!!? Wow, hes a KZitem BEAST!!!
@joshuahopper3036
Жыл бұрын
Any longtime viewer will remember the good old days when those nitric jars still had the metal bands with the handles =D. Love the content Sreetips!
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
They dissolved away over time.
@PaulBrown-uj5le
Жыл бұрын
They were dangerous I think too.
@gufus1630
Жыл бұрын
I'll love to see you process all the old filter papers and wasted solutions in one video. Fascinating to see how much metal you can recover
@howarc13
Жыл бұрын
This! I think one of the most fascinating videos from the various chemistry related creators I follow is when they do bulk processing of waste that they have generated over long spans of time
@SuperDavidEF
Жыл бұрын
Yeah. I was just thinking "I wonder if sreetips has already made a video of refining gold from his waste containers" and then here's your comment. EDIT: I looked it up. He actually did refining from his waste containers just a few months ago.
@Chewyfood
Жыл бұрын
Yup I'm waiting for the next filter paper video. You should mention in your videos that you save every filter paper and every stannous test paper.
@dn2817
Жыл бұрын
That is so mesmerizing watching a sterling fork turn to liquid. Man, i have watched every single episode you put out! Fascinating program!
@plankman6408
Жыл бұрын
You and me both!
@firstnlast
Жыл бұрын
I feel no need, no need for speed! We love the process and the in-depth videos. I could watch you do the same sequence over and over. I look forward to the further refining of the silver and waste as well!
@paulknight1879
Жыл бұрын
I love watching u work and your voice is so calming when u do it but I also learn alot listening to your videos thank u for showing how inquotation works...
@grasam86
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful 👍 early morning here in Sweden. I'm working on my batch but nice to take a break and watch your video
@shaneyearby4438
Жыл бұрын
Love the refining videos sir 👏
@SeriouslySickSerpents
4 ай бұрын
It would’ve been cool to see Mrs Sreetips reaction upon seeing that bar for the first time. That is so awesome!!!
@johnmccormick650
Жыл бұрын
Hello from a UK subscriber 🇬🇧. Great videos, very meticulous and a detailed explanation as you proceed . The electrolytic silver cell fascinates me, silver being my favourite precious metal. Magical.
@Coinflip23
Жыл бұрын
I absolutely love watching these. So intriguing!
@trailmix1013
Жыл бұрын
watching your vids are so relaxing and satisfying. transformations are amazing, and all the various techniques and uses of all metals. thanks
@udtghost3860
Жыл бұрын
Keep on making these beautiful gold bars. I enjoy watching you refine these metal's great video
@matthewsemenuk8953
Жыл бұрын
Answer to "why not reuse silver shot for gold inquarting?" answered: I've asked that question too and he actually answered it in this video. As you saw, there was some white gold in the mix that contains a more higher concertation of platinum group medals (such as palladium or platinum) that came out in the silver nitrate as a more green colour. As Sreetips is looking for high purity gold, reusing the same silver shot over and over when inquarting, will eventually have a higher concentration of those medals if reused overtime, leading to a possible lesser quality of gold that is more likely to have those heavier metals in the final refining.
@PaulBrown-uj5le
Жыл бұрын
I like gold medals.
@matthewsemenuk8953
Жыл бұрын
@@PaulBrown-uj5le lol thanks for pointing out that spelling. lol I never was good at it.
@williamfoote2888
Жыл бұрын
'White' gold is going to be rhodium plated gold, and that'll be picked up in the filter paper after the nitric acid boils. If he has any platinum in the original jewelry, that'd be caught on the filter paper too. Any palladium would be in the silver nitrate stock pot. If I understand correctly, he ran something like 40 pounds (or was it 40 kilograms?!?) of silver shot through his silver cell and when he worked up the slimes from the anode bags, he only got several grams of palladium. On that basis, unless he had one or two pieces of high palladium content jewelry, he'd never run afoul of any worry about palladium contaminating his silver. If he inquarted several runs with cement silver, all he'd do is make his palladium workup more productive, at the same time consuming less pure silver crystal to make up his silver cell electrolyte.
@AndrewStAmand
Жыл бұрын
@@williamfoote2888 also, if he inquarted the gold with his pure silver crystals there would be no re-addition of pgm's.
@williamfoote2888
Жыл бұрын
@@AndrewStAmand That’s what he’s doing now and why he’s doing it like that. Seeing that there is no AuPd jewelry alloy, the simple method to prevent a Pd rich item from getting the melt is to sort ‘white’ items from the jewelry.
@Psychedelicide
Жыл бұрын
That was another enjoyable refining video. I hope you don’t get in trouble with Mrs Sreetips for the missing forks at the dinner table. :) Happy Easter!!
@tgabe6163
Жыл бұрын
Thank you SOOO MUCH for sharing your VAST KNOWLEDGE of Chemistry involving Precious Metals/Alloys!!! I feel like I have such a stronger understanding of the processes after watching/listening/learning from your instructional videos!! From simple things like: just what exactly Borax is doing to the final stages of your Purification & Pour, instead of just simply knowing tbe fact that Borax must be added and what point it gets added. It is much more satisfactory to have a full understanding of WHY!! Also picked up a lot of background knowledge during your initial Amalgamations of creating your Gold/Silver Alloy and why you further dilute the Gold content first before you are able to refine it any further, I was always confused of why you always were adding .925 to the Meltan Soup of Riches until now, after your explanation here!!!! Again, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! I know there is no actual factualality/reality behind the age old "Science" of Alchemy, but when I watch your videos I can't help but think/feel like I AM WATCHING YOU PERFORM ALCHEMY/MAGIC instead of pure Chemistry & Metallurgy!!! You really do "know your shit" boss!!!
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Excellent review. Thank you!
@dexobeatz2024
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been watching your videos for a long time and I just now realize I wasn’t subscribed😰 I don’t know if you already have a video on this, but do you think you can make a masterclass on how you refine gold? How to calculate yield and how much to inquart, how to measure chemicals? I think there are a lot of people including me who would love to do this with the scrap we have at home! Love your videos!
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the subscription. Each one of my videos on gold refining cover all the points that you listed. All you have to do is watch the videos and take notes. I’ve left nothing out. But make sure you do this in a fume hood. No way to safely do these reactions without one.
@mrbunnylamakins518
Жыл бұрын
Thank You For Posting !! ♥
@SabrinaG-qy5zf
Жыл бұрын
By the way love your videos!!
@b.c.9358
Жыл бұрын
We've been blessed. I'm feeling quite anxious and this will calm me right down.
@jeremiah1528
Жыл бұрын
It's not just you. God is moving tonight.... Something is happening in the spiritual realm. God bless you in Jesus precious name ❤....
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
I, like Carl Jung, believe that anxiety in humans results from the unrecognized spiritual need for union with God.
@jeremiah1528
Жыл бұрын
Romans 14:17 NKJV 17 "For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit." When Holy Spirit indwells us...He gives us joy and peace... we've got to live righteously though. When we do something good...we feel good right? Likewise.... when we do something bad... we feel bad. Paranoid. Scared. Depressed etc. When you know you're ok with Almighty God and that you're saved and not living in sin.... there's a tremendous peace knowing that. And joy. That's what He brings.... just His presence. We're praying for you BC. ❤️ I'm here if you need to talk....
@b.c.9358
Жыл бұрын
@@jeremiah1528 thank you. A man, who was probably feeling quite anxious, yelled at my friends and I as we were walking down the sidewalk, since we were in his way. I hope he's doing alright.
@christopherleubner6633
Жыл бұрын
You got your gold very pure, no oxidation at all after casting. Well done 😁🤓❤
@ScottMorganINFJ
Жыл бұрын
Whenever I see old jewelry, being melted down, I always wonder what the history behind them is.
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Gold is so durable that Cleopatra could have had some of that in my melt dish around her neck thousands of years ago.
@hippyhebrewhomestead8593
Жыл бұрын
I very much like how you preheated your stir rod, I do wish someone would have warned me about not doing that and causing a steam explosion haha. Thankfully my stirring rod is 3ft and I was well away from it and the furnace caught the majority of the molten metal. SAFTEY always. I could hear my old chief yelling “PPE” behind me😂
@daviddavis-0U812
Жыл бұрын
Goooood evening from central Florida! Have a great one!
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Goooood evening!
@arnedalbakk6315
Жыл бұрын
Hello David. Have a nice day my friend😊
@daviddavis-0U812
Жыл бұрын
Hi Arne! Thank you... have a wonderful day!
@arnedalbakk6315
Жыл бұрын
Thank you🌹
@bigjim8872
Жыл бұрын
Great video as always! 👍
@TrickyDickyP
Жыл бұрын
Nice one Mr S.. keep it going buddy...
@MyScreenNameIsTroubledOne
Жыл бұрын
When nothing else in life makes sense at the moment, I can always click on a Sreetips video and relax. This channel has become my “ole reliable”. 💪💪
@justsomeguy6474
Жыл бұрын
You made around $658/hr today minus expenses of course. Good work!
@sateachingonline8421
Жыл бұрын
no he didn't!
@NOFX0890
Жыл бұрын
Happy Easter Sreetips and Family.
@burriedhistory
Жыл бұрын
That was a speedy one. Awesome.
@floydsallee2041
Жыл бұрын
Love it. But I've got a dumb question for you, have you ever used your cement silver or your silver shot instead of sterling silver? And do you think it would work?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
No, it’s not recommended.
@luckybeaverfinds9837
Жыл бұрын
Hey bud love the shows keep up good work question I've never refined my my gold refining solutions yet I was wondering what the growth is coming off the copper
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Not sure what your question is here.
@kurtremislettmyr7108
Жыл бұрын
shalom from norway ❤️🇳🇴 if you put something like a cloth at the bottom of the water you use to cool the bar , you might be able to avoid the mark at the corner.
@kpenn2259
Жыл бұрын
Would it save you any time if you had a second burner getting your chemicals/distilled water up to twmp off camera so they could work a bit faster? Just curious. Love the videos!
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Possibly
@profithunter777
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for not only the content but the extremely valuable information Mr.Sreetips. I have a question though, when you melt the gold into bars, why do you turn the torches off while the flame is on the gold vs removing them to first? Wont it avoid the ripple lines if you do? (forgot what you called them in a previous video)
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
I keep the flame on the gold as I pour to prevent the air for getting to it as it freezes in the mold. It’s called a reducing flame. This prevents a frosty appearance from forming on the surface of the bar.
@user-ol5sj1rk8s
Жыл бұрын
12:40 Hello. I always watching your videos to understand this process. I noticed that you don't neutralize the nitric acid before adding the SMB. How does SMB precipitate gold if there are acids, aqua regia? 😊Thanks in advance🙂
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Excess hydrochloric acid is not a problem. Excess nitric is a big problem because the gold will redissolve just as fast as it precipitates until all the excess nitric gets consumed. I add just the right amount of nitric to just dissolve the gold. That way, there’s no excess nitric to neutralize. It’s called incremental nitric dosing. One of the most valuable refining techniques I’ve ever learned. Second only to inquarting with silver.
@markroth9827
Жыл бұрын
Speed round. Thank you for your video.
@jwrappuhn71
Жыл бұрын
Excellent.
@DarrellDrinkwine
Жыл бұрын
I'm always curious how much gold and silver you evaporate when you do your melts with the torch. Glass blowers use this method to fume glass with.
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
I’m not sure, but 6000 degrees (oxy/acetylene) is hot enough to vaporize just about any metal if I get it too hot.
@scoobydoo3477
Жыл бұрын
Question for you. Let's say I was in different stages with multiple processes of gold refining and had to quit for awhile without finishing up. The different ways of doing it incure the different acids you use. If you leave them sit in the liquid form and the solution, whatever it is, evaporates completely. Does the gold go with it or is it left in the residue that's left? Thanks
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
The gold will still be there even if it evaporates to dryness. To hydrate and re-dissolve the solids simply add hydrochloric acid. The book says to add a few crystals of sodium chlorate if bits of metallic gold are observed, to redissolve them. Sodium chlorate and hydrochloric acid form chlorine gas. Chlorine gas will dissolve just about any metal.
@Es0ter1ca
Жыл бұрын
Hey Mr Sreetips! Quick question, why don’t you use a heating mantle with stirring in your reactions? Wouldn’t that be better and faster?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
I guess I didn’t think it was necessary.
@adelinyoungmark1929
Жыл бұрын
new speedruning catagory: gold refining
@Jack_Rabbit71
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for that “quiky “ of a refining Sreetips. Quick question about your watch, is that a piepan date Omega ? How long have you been wearing it?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Yes, Omega Pie Pan. She (Mrs sreetips) got that for me about 5 years ago at an estate sale, $275.
@Jack_Rabbit71
Жыл бұрын
@@sreetips she must have a very good eye.
@That-bearded-dude
Жыл бұрын
Love it!
@shaneyork300
Жыл бұрын
I still don't get tired of a cool drop
@theinsider536
Жыл бұрын
Hello Sreetips, I find your videos very interesting. I am new to this and I just watched Silver Refining How To Make Electrolyte For The Silver Cell. What I'm trying to wrap my head around is this, if one starts with a silver bar and dissolves it to make the initial silver nitrate solution to begin the silver cell process, where does the net silver come come from?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Sterling silver flatware and scrap 925 jewelry items. I buy flatware at estate sales - cheap. My wife get 925 scrap jewelry from yard sales - very cheap. I use the sterling flatware and scrap 925 jewelry in my gold refining process. Silver is a by-product of gold refining. Once it’s been extracted from the gold, I reduce the silver on copper and recover the silver powder, melt it into granules, then run it through my silver cell. I add the silver granules over a ten to fifteen day period to the anode basket of my silver cell. I pass an electric current through the impure silver in the anode basket. The current flow dissolves the silver and the silver ions pass through the filter, into the electrolyte, and plate out on the inside of the stainless steel bowl (the cathode) as high purity elemental silver. I only get out what I put in, less impurities.
@JimFinlayson
Жыл бұрын
Great video. Are these for your private collection or is single refining good enough for top $$ from a refiner? I like to see the occasional SMB bubbler gold drop video - I find those most enjoyable 😀
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Taxes are due
@SuperDavidEF
Жыл бұрын
@@sreetips I've wondered whether you keep your better, more refined gold segregated from the lesser stuff in your stash, or if you mark them somehow to remind yourself which is which. Now, I'm wondering if you ever keep the lesser gold at all.
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
One day, after I get out of debt completely, I’ll be able to keep some gold.
@jeffboothbyr.f.9249
Жыл бұрын
What purity do you think that bar is? Pretty cool video.
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
That was probably about 995 parts per thousand or less.
@ragegang8773
Жыл бұрын
I love this channel
@lewismo1
Жыл бұрын
Just out of curiosity, could you maybe weigh your gold into solution against the same mls of water. Dont think it would achieve anything, just be interesting to see the difference. Really enjoy your videos, super relaxing.
@PaulBrown-uj5le
Жыл бұрын
He did that in another video if you look it up, I almost positive he did any way, I'm starting to doubt myself lol.
@lewismo1
Жыл бұрын
@Paul Brown fella has a ton of videos, would be a bit of a mission to find it.
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
I did that experiment when I shot the electrolytic gold cell. Search for “wohlwill” on my channel
@SuperDavidEF
Жыл бұрын
@@sreetips electrolytic gold cell? I didn't even know that was a thing that existed. Now I'm curious. I'm gonna look up that video.
@b.c.9358
Жыл бұрын
@@SuperDavidEF I'm fairly certain it's a similar or identical process to gold plating.
@chiraldude
Жыл бұрын
Something I have wondered after watching a few sreetips gold refining videos is why not do an ammonia rinse before the final melt? Ammonia will dissolve (complex) silver chloride to get rid of any that slips through the filter before precipitation. It's an extra step but much less effort/cost than a second dissolve and precipitation. Maybe you could do a video where you split a batch and double refined one half and ammonia rinsed the other?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
I hate working with ammonia. I’ve excluded it unless it’s absolutely necessary such as when I use it to dissolve palladium for refining. And even then I do it outdoors. Ammonia seems to be even more corrosive than the acids I use. It’s ruined more equipment than anything else.
@HOLY_FRIJOLES
Жыл бұрын
I had what I thought was a clever idea the other day. Get an end mill. Then cast bar’s with the silver/gold metal. Put the bars in the end mill and shave them down. I would imagine the filings would be easier to process than the larger chunks therefore using less acid. I could be way off base. Just a thought
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
That sounds right. However, I’d rather let the acids do all that work.
@alexandermcgowan4125
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting and very nice omega
@PaulAllee
Жыл бұрын
I was wondering, if you just calculated weight and inquarted gold scrap and pour it into shot, could it possibly be more efficient process wise to just keep doing that and then just weigh out a set amount of inquarted gold each time you refine so that you don't repeat steps or use more chemicals for varying yields? Seems like the steps take the same amount of time wether you are refining ten grams or ten oz. I'm sure someone in the audience can answer this who has experience. Maybe I'm not thinking of something.
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
The steps are the same for 10 grams as for ten ounces. But the time is not. I refined almost 25 Troy ounces once in a single batch. It was terribly awkward and exceeded the capacity of my small hobby operation.
@robondy
Жыл бұрын
Sreetips! Quick question, I'm refining some sterling plateware I picked up at an estate sale using the sulfuric acid method in your video about refining with chemicals from the hardware store. The acid has turned black. I'm guessing from the oxidation off the sterling. Will this affect the silver at all? Any tips to keep this happening in the future?
@naughtiusmaximus830
Жыл бұрын
I’m no expert but you should just have to reduce it. I’m guessing melting will do that.
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Silver plate is a thin coating of silver over a base metal, usually brass, but sometimes copper. I have no experience with silver plate and sulfuric acid. But either way, the amount of silver contained in silver plated items is very small.
@user-nw1tr2vv2b
Жыл бұрын
Very nice
@CryptononymousOne
Жыл бұрын
That's amazing.
@danielberding7692
Жыл бұрын
Thank you sir for your info
@glengarbera7367
Жыл бұрын
Grrat videos bro. Having trouble finding a small vacuum for my buchner funnel. Any links. Tried Hvac vacuum which was way to powerful.
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
They sell hand-held vacuum pumps that work pretty good but require constant pumping by hand that could get tiring. I’ve made a video on building a reliable vacuum system. It’s posted on my channel.
@GokouZWAR
Жыл бұрын
What’s the rush? Just for giggles or is there an immediate need or buyer available?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Taxes are due
@timsmith9645
Жыл бұрын
Very nice gold bar thanks for sharing sreetips
@plankman6408
Жыл бұрын
Could you stick chopped up sterling silver cutlery in the diode basket instead of silver shot? I mean, it would be less efficient for certain, but would it work? If all the resources you had were the means to make a silver cell and some sterling silver cutlery, could you refine it?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Yes, it can go in. But the electrolyte would quickly become saturated with copper. For electrolytic refining it’s best to use silver that’s already relatively pure.
@plankman6408
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! I'm loving the videos and chemistry. It's just fascinating.
@arnedalbakk6315
Жыл бұрын
Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. Nice clip as always sir. Thank you. Arne
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Arne
@arnedalbakk6315
Жыл бұрын
@@sreetips 🌹🌹
@user-nw1tr2vv2b
Жыл бұрын
Good job thx you
@PaulAllee
Жыл бұрын
I am unusually curious about your watch. If you come across so much jewelry and watches you could have anything you want. Is this particular watch sentimental or is it real gold like most of them aren't anymore?
@Xeroxorex
Жыл бұрын
I figured it was the only watch that could handle exposure to nitric acid fumes without corroding
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Mrs sreetips bought that for me at an estate sale. Omega Pie Pan 14k gold with a Longines 14k band.
@danielberding7692
Жыл бұрын
Mr sreetips what amp fuse do you run in your silver cell this was also a great video
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
3 amp
@kjbober
Жыл бұрын
Great videos. Love the channel. Any chance you do a huge flex video melting all your gold into one big bar?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
That be interesting.
@davidgreen2379
Жыл бұрын
I don't like gold, but I like this channel. I don't come here to learn. I'm here for a zen moment, and THIS DUDE knows how to "BRING IT"
@jerryellis835
Жыл бұрын
You don't like gold ??? You must be in love with those green things that are about to collapse any minute. So I guess you don't like financial security...
@johnmallette3143
Жыл бұрын
Speed run ,.,.5 nines Gold.,.tkzz for sharing tipps.,.,.,peace
@iceman2184
Жыл бұрын
You got an ad today! Monetize science!
@goldsilverjunkie
Жыл бұрын
Your the best
@josephcormier5974
Жыл бұрын
Very nice. What's the maximum that you can go over with the silver when you mix them? Thank you for sharing this with us six stars sir
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Up around 10k (about 40%) and the nitric has trouble penetrating.
@josephcormier5974
Жыл бұрын
@@sreetips thank you sir
@Fambamm-ib6pw
Жыл бұрын
Awesome video as always 😊
@ArielleViking
Жыл бұрын
A beautiful gold bar and really nice to have a little extra. 👍
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Arielle, I had to sell this bar to pay my taxes.
@daniellestallings5561
3 ай бұрын
What's the name of the book you were referring to in the gold refining process?
@sreetips
3 ай бұрын
Refining Precious Metal wastes
@Fr3nchNerd
Жыл бұрын
The speed at which silver melts into gold is kinda crazy. From solid to liquid so fast…
@michalpodracky8301
Жыл бұрын
what is the heat source that you use for melting? It looks like its really fast :o
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Oxy/acetylene torch
@angelmoreno5963
Жыл бұрын
Nice video sir...Do you have any gold or silver for sale.?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
A few pieces on my eBay site.
@matthewsemenuk8953
Жыл бұрын
cool stuff.
@bass_and_bass3323
Жыл бұрын
Now that was killer hourly wage 🔥
@saeedmahmodi4459
Жыл бұрын
Nice
@tkdazzler1-130
Жыл бұрын
Does your higher than expected yield attribute to having the impurities in it?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
No, probably tossed some 14k in the 10k sort bin
@bitsofeverything8385
Жыл бұрын
What is reacting in the silver jar with the nitric you poured at around 7:30?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
I’ve got some pieces of sterling silver in there to consume the excess nitric.
@thomasmarks7176
Жыл бұрын
So cool 😎
@marcyd2007
Жыл бұрын
Mrs Sreetips is an absolute angel, isn't she 🙂
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely
@jimwednt1229
Жыл бұрын
What's the chemical formula for gold when it's dissolved in the acid solution?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Found this under “gold chloride” on Wikipedia: Gold (III) Chloride, or Auric Chloride, or Chloroauric acid, (all three are names for gold dissolved in acid) with a chemical formula Au2Cl6.
@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730
Жыл бұрын
i wonder what the contamination is and what it was from, maybe the palladium from the white gold? platinum group metals are about the only things that will survive the aqua regia with the gold right?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
A single refining with no tweaking before the melt - could be a trace of copper. Copper is a junk metal that will foul the surface of precious metals during an ingot pour. Even in just trace amounts.
@SabrinaG-qy5zf
Жыл бұрын
Do any local stores sell nitric acid ? Like home Depot or ace? Would you happen to know.?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
No, but Ace Hardware sells spectricide stump remover (potassium nitrate) and Rooto Professional Drain Opener (sulfuric acid) and you can make nitric with those.
@craigmcdonald8539
Жыл бұрын
Hi Streetips long time viewer and love you’re work but I did see another refiner use urea I belive in one of the last steps and I don’t think you use this. What is the difference in using this and does it help the process?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
I use incremental nitric dosing. If done correctly nothing is needed to remove excess nitric. Because there won’t be any excess nitric to remove.
@craigmcdonald8539
Жыл бұрын
@@sreetips it’s above my IQ and scientific level lol 😂 it was just a stage that I had no knowledge of, but appreciate youre reply 🙏
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
I add just the right amount of nitric to just dissolve the gold. Excess hydrochloric is no problem.
@grebulocities8225
Жыл бұрын
It's better to avoid using an excess of nitric acid, but if you do, the most effective chemical for getting rid of it is sulfamic acid, not urea. Urea is less effective. There's also a risk of forming urea nitrate, which is explosive when dry.
@ogama843
Жыл бұрын
Love when SREETIPS gets on a roll. 22 pounds of silver and now this? Is Mrs. SREETIPS mad?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
We owed a big tax bill. Mrs sreetips came through again!
@UnwellGaming
Жыл бұрын
is it possible to refine the gold just like u do with the silver crystals?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Yes, search “wohlwill” on my channel to see it
@HomemadeChemistry
Жыл бұрын
I have all the necessary reactants and scrap gold. My only concern was that I'd blow away the gold powder when making an ingot in the last step. Can this happen? My blowtorch is quiet aggressive and I don't have a furnace...
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Yes
@HomemadeChemistry
Жыл бұрын
@@sreetips any tips?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
When melting pure gold powder I light the torch well away from the metal and keep the flames turned down real low. Then starting from about a foot and a half away from the crucible, I slowly lower the flame down on the gold powder and direct it on the gold powder until a crust of melted gold forms. Then I bring in the flame close and concentrate it on the insides of the melt dish. I try to keep the flame off of the gold. I use oxy/acetylene at around 6000 degrees F will actually boil the gold, cause it to spatter out of the dish and cause some of the gold to vaporize into thin air causing loss of metal.
@HomemadeChemistry
Жыл бұрын
@@sreetips thanks a lot my friend, i will try to melt it that way!
@charlesinscore4107
Жыл бұрын
I'm wondering. Will that silver get mixxed with the normal silver stock pot?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
I’ll filter it, cement it out on copper, melt and pour into shot, then run it through the silver cell.
@apveening
Жыл бұрын
@@sreetips With that palladium (and other PGMs), it might be worthwhile to keep track of it, even if only to make sure it doesn't contaminate your silver cell (or accidentally poison you).
@williamfoote2888
Жыл бұрын
@@apveening Hard to do because he can't know the values of Pd, Pt and Rh that he knows are in his process. At least the Pd is on the Ag side, and the Pt and Rh are collected on the filter papers.
@AndrewStAmand
Жыл бұрын
I know people have asked if you can use cement silver to augment the gold. But, you should be able to use a small quantity of the pure silver crystals instead of sterling silver. Because you'd use a known quantity with known properties, by the time it gets back to goingbthrough the silver cell you should have very little pgm's. Unless you believe the potential loss of silver is not worth the risk of using your pure silver crystals.
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
Using pure silver to inquart would be like taking a step backwards because it already been through the silver cell. Sterling/925 silver is the best for inquarting. Sterling flatware is the best of all sterling (in my opinion) because it’s so clean.
@johnmyers379
Жыл бұрын
Your definitely faster then me I remember it would take me days
@Toney141
Жыл бұрын
Can I precipitate gold with ferrous sulfate?
@sreetips
Жыл бұрын
I do it all the time.
@arramon777
Жыл бұрын
welcome to the Bob Ross of alchemy channel with the one and only sreetips =)
@daniellestallings5561
3 ай бұрын
Which video should we watch if we are using 24k gold to start with?
@sreetips
3 ай бұрын
I ran some pure gold in my electrolytic gold cell.
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