I get your reasoning, and it's sound. Even so, man, it almost hurts to see that bar dissolve.
@TheeGlocktopus8 ай бұрын
Hate to see it go, but love to watch it leave. These reactions are so cool
@lostandlost5198 ай бұрын
This has a "I did this so you don't have to" feel to it. Can't wait for part 2. Thank you for the content.
@literallyanangrymoose77178 ай бұрын
It definitely carries a flavor of regret with it.
@rolandjohansson74288 ай бұрын
Chloroauric acid is the very definition of "liquid assets".
@jimwednt12298 ай бұрын
😮😮 I'm really enjoying this series, this experiment ! You're of a dying breed, those who work until they can't work, only then take a rest.
@davidjondoh86718 ай бұрын
I love your addition of the clock to your time lapse shots, I only wish that you would use a larger one as it is sometimes very difficult to make out the hands on the dial of your current clock. Thanks for the stunning entertainment, Sreetips!
@Kanalmarket8 ай бұрын
Thanks Mr. Sreetips for the time and capital you spent teaching us. Respect
@SilverTreasures8 ай бұрын
Clever to think about it not being detectable by metal detectors. That’s an intelligent way to move money.
@Alondro778 ай бұрын
Put it in a jar meant for 'bee pollen'... no one will suspect a thing. >:]
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Bee pollen, good idea.
@chubbydinosaur91488 ай бұрын
I don't know what the end product will look like, but a Vegemite jar would be fitting too from the way it looks now.
@Nosweat998 ай бұрын
You’re a great mind sir. Love your videos
@Seashop8088 ай бұрын
You are always amazing with what you do! I learn so much all the time!!
@plutoniumiscool8 ай бұрын
You can use the dessicator bag method to dry chloroauric acid and other heat sensitive chemicals. Nurdrage has a video about it. Its effective but takes long time to dry 100%.
@stevenlengyel66518 ай бұрын
All in the name of science. You got monster balls chief. That I respect regardless of the haters out there. Hats off
@looweeg42298 ай бұрын
You had some massive balls to try that on a 120k gold bar. Either taht or you knew where this is going and have a lot of confidence in yourself. :)
@TheSpooniest8 ай бұрын
This kind of thing had been done before. When the Nazis invaded Copenhagen in 1940, George de Hevesy hid two of his friends' Nobel Prize gold medals by dissolving them this way. Years later, after the Nazis were defeated, he came back to the lab to find that the nobody had touched the unknown chemical reaction, so he precipitated the gold out of solution and returned it to the Nobel committee. They re-cast the medals from the original gold, and that's the story of how Max von Laue and James Franck were re-awarded their Nobel Prize medals in 1952.
@looweeg42298 ай бұрын
@@TheSpooniest I must admit I was a bit worried we had no video this week end, but I think I saw him saying he was taking a day or 2 off to rest because the baby sitting was relentless.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
In progress.
@looweeg42298 ай бұрын
@@sreetips Glad to hear that! Hope everything will be fine.
@ICU2B4UDO8 ай бұрын
Leave it as a gold bar Chief...I'd reconstitute it back to a gold bar then paint it lead gray!
@OneOfDisease8 ай бұрын
Lead plate it 😂
@danmatsav8 ай бұрын
@@OneOfDisease after all the time he spent refining all of that gold to such high purity, intentionally adding a lead impurity would be like a sin.
@ICU2B4UDO8 ай бұрын
@@danmatsav ...You REALLY need to learn to READ IN CONTEXT...😒🤫🤐😴
@thegreatestdane89787 ай бұрын
@ICU2B4UDO lead plating would add a layer of lead to the outside of the bar, hence a lead impurity, I'd suggest you actually read the original comment and understand what's being said before you try to act superior to someone else.
@dn28178 ай бұрын
I already saw the pour for that but I watched it again because it was so cool! Man, you are putting out some awesome content.
@Joe.Rogan.8 ай бұрын
It's nerve racking to do an experiment with 50 ounces of gold. It's not like you can just go to bed while $100K is just chilling in your shop. The drive back home from the safety deposit box sounds scary enough.
@lawrencejelsma81188 ай бұрын
It is how the new rich do physics. They didn't have to work hard on their first $100,000.00 earned by themselves in their lives being from a family member of a random equivalent of billionaire parents. Don't forget these students couldn't figure out how to balance a budget so they need loan forgiveness.
@GOLD_FEVER8 ай бұрын
@@lawrencejelsma8118 Lmao he deleted his comment...
@thegreatestdane89787 ай бұрын
@lawrencejelsma8118 won't argue on the rew rich part, old money fuels today's 'self-made millionaires' after all, but in alot of cases those requesting loan forgiveness aren't the millionaire's sons and daughters types but rather people who took out loans to get degrees after being sold the idea that a degree will open doors only to find their chosen sector is very closed off where you need to know people in the buisness already to get even a microseconds notice let alone a job and as a result have a worthless degree they will never be able to use. Aka people who can't afford a degree level course take loans thinking whatever job they land in future from their new degree will allow them to pay off the loan eventually only to find that the job never materialises and they're now saddled with hundreds of thousands in debt that only gets larger year on year as they fail to even break even.
@lawrencejelsma81187 ай бұрын
@@thegreatestdane8978 ... Actually check the facts again. The student debt forgiveness is given to a wealthier student loan students (GOP house Republicans Marjorie T. Greene statistics from her literate sources). Joe Biden is a career politician owning a personal 7 mansion inherited estate of his father's wealth in the 1960s from the shipping industry. The students being forgiven of student debt are generally rich students in family wealth. They over spent in Ivy League schools to look sub par compared to their wealthy parents. Money of debt relief is only for a lucky few of 13 percent of all students pushing a rich 87-98 percent of family wealth students into the top 2 percent of the wealthy rich people. Anyone whose family wealth, especially in Ivy League Universities, not in the top family wealth of 13 percent are not considered any student debt forgiveness. Bernie Sanders is just trying to liberate the top 13 percent into the top 2 percent wealth classes.
@larryevans76698 ай бұрын
As you said, it's a salt, and hard like salt is. I wonder if you can melt it, as you can with table salt and cast it into little gold chloride bars, or just agitate it constantly as it crystalizes, so it is broken up, again kind of like table salt.
@JesusRisen88 ай бұрын
Wonder job as usual! Love watching these videos. I’ve never held so much gold in my hand before. Super cool stuff
@craterglass8 ай бұрын
Chief: "This chonky boi isn't practical." Also Chief: Dissolve in the least practical way for awesome timelapse.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Made for a good show
@MrKotBonifacy8 ай бұрын
@@sreetips That answers my question... : ) (Which was "but what for all that?" I mean, nitric acid isn't free on tap, and then they don't give electricity for free every other week, do they? ;-)
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Expenses for nitric and electricity come with the territory.
@MrKotBonifacy8 ай бұрын
@@sreetips Righto, chefe! : ) ...and then it's YT, and a good show always pays off, so why not? ;-)
@Chris-ch5nb8 ай бұрын
Thank you for doing this.
@MrMsabyan8 ай бұрын
What a wonderful video, i feel it was made just for me lol . I just returned from prospecting and got to watch this .I can't believe it was a week long job to do this wow , that's commitment to teaching . I had a heck of a laugh when you got to the end and tried getting it out of the beaker with a plastic spoon , so sorry Thank you sir , you never cease to amaze me. Cant wait for the rest of this. Cheers
@stephenmosner55178 ай бұрын
Thought I would share a thought about a future experiment: For your impure silver shot that you run through the silver cell, I wonder if it’s possible to remove a significant amount of that copper (which appears to be on the outside of the granules) with an acid boil? Some options I think you could try are: 1. Boiling the granules in vinegar + salt. 2. Boiling the granules in citric acid + salt. 3. Boiling the granules in piranha solution. 4. Boiling the granules in a very dilute nitric acid. If this works, and you can remove all or most of the copper from your silver shot, I think your anode filters will last longer, plus your electrolyte should be reusable for a longer time. Anyways, it would maybe be cool for a video! Thanks for all your videos, they are great, and we all appreciate your work to share them!
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
We don’t want salt anywhere near our silver cell
@Pablo6688 ай бұрын
Yeah, first time I've ever seen a man experiment with a 100k+ gold bar. Should be some good viewing.
@Antonowskyfly8 ай бұрын
You are welcome. Given the purity of the sample, I expected it to go into solution in a quarter of the time. I would imagine your hackles were up for the several days that it took, and if you are having to put up with a dense population of raucous cicadas in your neighborhood...it’s exhausting to think about, let alone do. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
@danmatsav8 ай бұрын
Melting point of chloroauric acid is published as 254 degrees Celsius (489F). If your hotplate was turned up all the way there, you may have driven off all of the acid much earlier than you think you did, and the liquid you were seeing was just melted chloroauric.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Luckily I was fearful of spattering and did not turn the hotplate on high
@adws56968 ай бұрын
It's so fun when you try new stuff like this
@2212db8 ай бұрын
A thought came to me just before you placed the paper towel over the beaker. Have you ever taken the filters from the fume cupboard and treated them to see if there are any precious metals in them? I suspect there will be something, but I'd be curious to see how much, or how little is there
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
There’s precious metals in there.
@merahamar93618 ай бұрын
Thank you for a truly wonderful and tiring experience. May God reward you well, Professor
@Tim-Kaa8 ай бұрын
Hi Screetips. Can you try vacuum assisted drying? I think it should speed up the drying process significantly. Just make sure to put an intermediate jar with some filter paper between the vacuum pump and the breaker with the dissolved gold, to catch gold mist. Also, to get gold out of the beaker, try flexible beaker Teflon liner inserts that you can easily yank out from the beaker. Cheers from NYC!🎉
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Thanks NYC!
@rom655368 ай бұрын
Might be a good idea to store it as a liquid. Who's going to steal an Erlenmeyer flask full of orange liquid from a chem lab?
@timothyodonnell85918 ай бұрын
When Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from taking them. After the war, he precipitated the gold out of the acid, and the Nobel Society recast Franck and von Laue's awards from the original gold.
@StevenC.Shoner8 ай бұрын
A Bold experiment! You might try redissolving what you have, then boiling it down to the syrup stage -- at that point put in a refrigerator overnight and *most* of the chloroauric acid will crystallize out. then repeat on the supernatant.
@SugarSandProspecting8 ай бұрын
Not going lie...I'm beside myself as to why you'd undo that beautiful bar. Such an achievement to not only accumulate 51.5 oz, but to have it in a single Suburbly refined Bar!😮
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Mrs sreetips was not happy with me. But she knows I’ll get her gold back for her.
@soggdogg8 ай бұрын
@sreetips lol, don't be messin with a woman and their gold.
@Crockerfeller8 ай бұрын
Can't wait for part 2 :). This is gripping drama.
@tonywharton52208 ай бұрын
I really enjoy these series. Looking forward to the next one Mr T ✌️
@someguy-k2h8 ай бұрын
Going for the big daddy again. Love to see your process.
@petrodehtiarov24528 ай бұрын
It's always interesting to watch you melt gold! It would be interesting to see your performance in refining copper to three nines and alloy ingot levels
@ericbeeman87178 ай бұрын
Definitely interesting to see this u should take a small ammount of that stuff rehydrate it then if needs filtered get that out the way n then let that sample shelf dry with paper towel over the top of it so nothing gets in get it back ti the aquaregia stage then see if letting it dry that eay forms the gold crystals ur talking about the cholor oric acid crystals
@himmatbadal36968 ай бұрын
Sir you got serious guts and knowledge to dissolve that amount of gold .. my heart got scared just looking at that scale saying 1600 grams … keep doing the exciting work … love and greetings from India
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@ArielleViking8 ай бұрын
Wow, what a timelapse, brilliant viewing… I wonder the amount of precious metals contained in the spatters in your fume hood, the reclaiming of the gold in those mists and spatters could make for an interesting video. 👍🏻
@debcamp23598 ай бұрын
❤ the videos! We learn alot from your experiments. U r real entertainment.
@wesleymccravy9018 ай бұрын
Why not just remelt it and pour smaller bars?
@FrenChAnal8 ай бұрын
Then we lose the fun factor
@Superstupid798 ай бұрын
It’s more about the process not the result.
@FemiAnimashaunDroneFilms8 ай бұрын
Exactly. And why not just filter the dehydrate then continue with the liquid left.
@PapaKryptoss8 ай бұрын
Yes to me that was a waste of time and he lost money as well
@csachevauxsansabri26128 ай бұрын
@@PapaKryptoss I can appreciate evry video Sreetips makes. If you don't want to watch it, why did you? That comment wasn't only disrespectful but also heartfull.
@ufobattleship0018 ай бұрын
hello...your channel and teachings are encouraging...i know that this art isn't really tought and not to much writings on the craft but thank you i plan to learn it as well as you, hopefully 🛸🕊️
@disgruntledtoons8 ай бұрын
You could rehydrate it just enough so that it can be poured into a smaller container.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Possibly
@احمداحمد-ز4ك7ظ8 ай бұрын
انت رجل تستحق المتابعه وتقدير لا اجد رجل اكثر منك صدق في قنوات اليتيوب كم يحتاج غاز ثاني اوكسيد الكبريت من الوقت الترسيب لتر من اكوريجا مذاب بها عشر غرامات ذهب ❤❤❤❤❤❤
@M0DiFiEDZ8 ай бұрын
Should have dropped some stannous on the paper towel to confirm it was gold, could just be the yellowish tint of conc HCL evaporating. To further evap to a crystal form you could add a quicker evaporating solvent such as ISO or Acetone to help pull the remaining water and acid. Ideally you’d use an evap dish which is generally larger in diameter and a shallow wall as the tall beaker wall creates a humid environment at the bottom that takes ages for the moisture to make its way into the atmosphere unless airflow is blowing directly down into the beaker.
@M0DiFiEDZ8 ай бұрын
From this point your best bet is to dissolve the solids by adding the minimal amount of distilled water and heat then pour it into a larger flat Corning ware and add some alcohol or maybe acetone, but do your due diligence to make sure what solvent is compatible then evap on low heat. The more surface area exposed to the surface the easier this will be. It’s much easier to work with a 1/4” or less of crystals over a large surface area vs something thick that needs a hammer to break up. IMO
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
That a good idea, I still have the paper. I can do it in the next part.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
This was my first time. I over-cooked it.
@wolfedan38 ай бұрын
I use to think you were crazy but now I am convinced.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@wolfedan38 ай бұрын
@@sreetips Question. What are you going to do now and are you going to show us? If so, when?
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
I’ll get it done to the very end. And it will be melted back into bright shiny pure gold metal. I’m just a little tired from old age. And I have a life outside of my hobby; refining precious metals and making KZbin videos!
@oszb8 ай бұрын
The best part of dissolving a 50 ounce gold bar is that you can reform it as a 60 ounce gold bar in a few days.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Not without adding ten ounces more pure gold.
@AnderZ3128 ай бұрын
I mean c'mon, what a banger. This gets all the dopamines firing.
@AndyGraceMedia8 ай бұрын
Ah Chief, I would have given you 120 Large in Fedbux for that gorgeous door stop! Still, I'm loving your video creativity and incredible commitment to the experiment and channel. Watching all those colours appearing via surface plasmon resonance was awesome - including the royal blue. If you want to buy lab grade chloroauric acid crystals to make gold nanoparticles or for industrial use they cost $350-$400 per gram! But Kevin ... please look after yourself and get some sleep!!!
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Took Saturday off
@Arne-ns2mw8 ай бұрын
Dont make any noise folks😴 Mr Sreetips sleeping 🙂🔥😂💤
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Thanks Arne. If I can sleep on the ship, with the five inch 54, banging away (my rack was directly under the gun mount), then I think I can snore away through just about anything!
@Arne-ns2mw8 ай бұрын
@@sreetips God bless you Sreetips 🌺
@Arne-ns2mw8 ай бұрын
@@sreetips i almost forget...I have find several coin 🌺 Soon i shall prospect for gold in a little river. I take my pan whit me🙂🌺
@Arne-ns2mw8 ай бұрын
🙃🔥🌺
@StefanShorko8 ай бұрын
Good work team. Also happy orthodox Easter, we celebrate Easter this week.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Happy Easter
@larrybarton23518 ай бұрын
It was at this point that he realized………
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Right? I was all set to break it up and put it in that jar and be done with it. Then my heart sank as I felt it completely reject penetration with the spoon and the steel knife.
@michaelcocayne83958 ай бұрын
Why not leave it in a very dense slurry form instead of completely dry?
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Because this was my first time. I cooked it too long.
@Capitaine.Albator8 ай бұрын
Man I was crying seeing this beautiful bar being dissolved… But I understand why… not liquid enough. Would be interesting to see if a metal detector could pickup the gold in this form. Anyway thanks for the video… ✌🏻👍🏻🇨🇦
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
I must find and test it to see if my hypothesis is correct.
@letsdragthecave20178 ай бұрын
are you trying to avoid duties on transport fees or something? expecting them to not be able to detect it cause it's not in metallic form?
@carlriley90618 ай бұрын
Or buried in the yard
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
No, some viewers asked about storing the gold in this form. So I decided to try it. Go big or go home!
@heavyt54898 ай бұрын
But youre already at home
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
So I went big
@bellowsforge97268 ай бұрын
So hard to watch the Perfection of the 50 oz gold bar melt away…. I understand that it’s better to have it in smaller increments to sell it off, rather than the one lump sum
@D_A868 ай бұрын
13:40 The worlds most expensive chocolate brownie 😂
@scotty64358 ай бұрын
With a bit more lab equipment you'd save a lot of tkmr and get a better result. Refluxing and using vacuum to dry product like this isnt hard or too expensive. You needed to break up thet crust, if you did it would have evaporated in half the time
@LeisureLife-qk1qj8 ай бұрын
Professor Tips did it big with lesson! 50 ounces in the Lab!!!
@DEmma19728 ай бұрын
the 'junk' that came out when heated, was that not gold?
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
I think it was.
@darkunicorn12088 ай бұрын
To me this is professional refining. Crazy to observe this. Your playing with more than most humans will see in their lives at one time.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
I think I cooked it too long, this was my first time.
@William_Borgeson8 ай бұрын
Thanks for doing this, I hope you read this message with a clear head that has had plenty of sleep!
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Got a good nights rest. Now Mrs sreetips is on me to get her GOLD back for her. We went to an estate sale this morning. Bought another two grand in scrap gold.
@William_Borgeson8 ай бұрын
@@sreetips Glad to hear it!
@pipeorganSI8 ай бұрын
I don't know what kind of house Mr. Sreetips owns, but gold can be hidden very easily by building it into a wall next to steel rebars. A metal detector will detect metal, of course, but along the entire length of the wall where the steel rebar runs and no one will be looking for gold there. You can also hide it in the fireplace under iron grates or behind a cast iron wall. No fireplace reaches a temperature above 1000 C for the gold to melt.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
All true, but hiding the gold is not what I’m trying to do. I’m demonstrating for some of my viewers who asked about storing gold in this form. And I did it for the show.
@ego738 ай бұрын
Get some sleep, droogie. I'll be here for pt 2.
@24KGOLDRECOVERY8 ай бұрын
Excellent video 🎉🎉
@bitsofeverything83858 ай бұрын
I wonder how you scrubber works and how much metal one could recover from it.
@Vibe77Guy8 ай бұрын
I had a beaker of beautiful red chloroauric one winter, decided to wait until the next day to do a drop. It got very cold that night, and in the morning the solution had formed white needle like crystals, and what was still liquid had lost most of the color. I was a very interesting phenomenon. Had that occur on two occasions.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
I think I over-cooked this batch. It’s my first time.
@wormopolis98028 ай бұрын
could you use vibration to break it up? like put a reciprocating saw without a blade on the bottom to break it up maybe?
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Possibly
@Alondro778 ай бұрын
Many metal chlorides are hygroscopic, meaning they absorb water from the air. It makes them VERY hard to truly dry unless it's done in a vacuum, OR heated to very high temps. Chloroauric acid possesses another quality of some metal chlorides, in that it melts in its own 'water of crystallization' when heated; and as you found out, once it cools, it solidifies!
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
I over-cooked it.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
This was my first time.
@Alondro778 ай бұрын
@@sreetips I studied chemistry, so I know a lot of stuff!
@madmattdigs95188 ай бұрын
I had some of these crystals. I bought some very old ampules of gold chloride and the liquid evaporated out of them somehow, just had bright yellow crystals in them. I wanted the gold so I dissolved them in hydrochloric acid and precipitated out with SMB.
@موسىالسراج6 ай бұрын
هل يمكنني صهر هذا الشيء؟ بعد تجفيفه هل سيرجع معدناً في حالة لايتوفر لدي بعض المواد في بلادي.
@sreetips6 ай бұрын
No, it must be converted back into metallic gold before attempting to melt it. Otherwise you’ll lose most of the gold.
@Kerhuz8 ай бұрын
120k experiment. I always wonder how much of your gold is going out of that fume hood from those evaporations. Losing a small portion of +100k is still a lot of money. For my own sanity, I would just remelt and recast into smaller bars.
@CothranMike8 ай бұрын
I know the vapor deposits on the paper towel were dramatic but just as plating only deposits a thin layer on the target metal, that plating is tens times as thin. The crusts contain 100x as much as a light plating on metal, they are also 1000x more packed with atoms, ions, etc. Not to worry, losses to air and splattered boil sputter dripping from the rim of the vapor lid are not just minor but expected in casual chemistry and cost can and should be written off of any accounting.
@Kerhuz8 ай бұрын
@@CothranMike wow thanks for the explanation! You don't know how relieved i am right now. I was convinced it could get to a considerable amount.
@CothranMike8 ай бұрын
@@Kerhuz Only if the cost of fiat dollars goes down, then of course that cost, incremental as it is will increase. Fiat is what all the world is doing, it is an easy way to "enhance" the pool of dollars (pick your currency) with fresh printed ones. A finite pool can not be increased by 10x 100x or 1000x without the value of individual notes going down. The sin of fiat notes rather than a bi metal economy is the culprit here and always will be the fault of any scheme designed to "make money better" in this fashion. Static is not the answer any more than adding zeros to the number really increases the value. A common method, world wide is a central bank. Look into what all that actually entails please.
@asdfgsfgj82208 ай бұрын
Eye candy watching that dissolve, thanks again Sreetips!! How about that inflation jump on Au!!
@stephenmosner55178 ай бұрын
If you rehydrated to get it liquid and transferable again, dehydrated to a syrup, but not dryness, then poured into your mason jar, and let it sit with maybe only that paper towel on top, would it dry more that way? Or possibly absorb humidity from the air & dilute? I have no idea?!
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
I over-cooked it
@dannydaghavarian91858 ай бұрын
i was wondering what would happen if you did that. thanks for uploading :)
@sillybears46738 ай бұрын
Noway!!! Nice! I think I may have asked about this a few videos ago
@irwanmochammad11748 ай бұрын
Very true..with Aqua regia it dissolves red gold..the meaning is high carat...👍👍😅🙏🙏
@DavidDavis-fishing8 ай бұрын
Goooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
@warrior4christ7778 ай бұрын
Back at ya from the mean streets of Vancouver Canada
@DavidDavis-fishing8 ай бұрын
@@warrior4christ777 👋😎
@Arne-ns2mw8 ай бұрын
Hello my good good friend 🌺 Have a great weekend 🙃
@DavidDavis-fishing8 ай бұрын
@@Arne-ns2mw Hello Arne! Have a wonderful weekend my friend!
@Arne-ns2mw8 ай бұрын
Thank you so much 🌺God bless you 🌺
@waynenocton8 ай бұрын
Would love to see the end result back on the scale
@mouserr8 ай бұрын
i thought you were setting up a piranha solution but nope aqua regia ... not sure which i prefer to watch nor which is most effective but regardless i do love the look of pure gold in solution
@vanguardknight8 ай бұрын
All I can say is 😮😮😮! I assume the Master Chief tried a smaller scale test before going for the 50oz bar?
@apveening8 ай бұрын
He did something similar accidentally (at least) once.
@vanguardknight8 ай бұрын
@@apveening Yes I remember those episodes for sure. But those were taken past the point of crystallization and straight to burnt. Needless to say I love the willingness to try something new and bold. Definitely interested in seeing how this plays out :)
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
No, but I should have tried with a small sample before going all in.
@nicholasmcmillan75368 ай бұрын
The volcano in Antarctica is doing the same thing, spewing gold crystals daily. There are some cool articles about it. Just melt huge blocks of ice into a sluice 😂
@موسىالسراج6 ай бұрын
Can I melt this thing down? After drying it, will it return to metal if I do not have some materials in my country?
@sreetips6 ай бұрын
No, I don’t think that the gold salt would reduce to metallic gold. It must first be rehydrated/re-dissolved, then precipitated out of solution before trying to melt it. I believe trying to melt the gold salt would cause gold to literally go up in smoke and cause massive losses of the gold. There’s no easy way to get pure gold.
@snoddyification8 ай бұрын
Only Shreetips would have a lazy brick this size laying about and ballz big enough to "experiment " on it. Needs a wheelbarrow to carry his knackers in.
@tomboalogo8 ай бұрын
Interesting to see if it is not detectable by metal detectors. Would cementatious silver would be the same and not detectable?
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Cement silver is metallic silver in powder form and should be detectable. Silver chloride however, should not be detectable.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Nor should silver nitrate be detectable. Think of sodium metal, it should be detectable. But combined with chlorine to form sodium chloride (table salt) won’t be detectable.
@tomboalogo8 ай бұрын
Thanks, I thought it might be detectable. Although a cement bag with cement silver in it might be a good hiding place?
@thejll8 ай бұрын
There are many reasons to keep gold in solution: one was when they dissolved the Nobel Prize gold medal of Niels Bohr, the atomic scientist who invented Quantum Mechanics, during WWII when Denmark was occupied, so that the gold would not be confiscated to feed the German war machine. They dissolved the gold medal, left it on a shelf in the Niels Bohr Institute, and then, after the war, precipitated the gold out, sent it to Stockholm, and asked for a new medal. True story - I think :) The NBI is a dear old place, where I studied and was told this story/yarn.
@lenzworker8 ай бұрын
Niels Bohr did indeed dissolve not one but two Nobel Prize gold medals but they weren't his. They belonged to Max von Laue and James Franck. Bohr had donated his own medal to the Finnish relief fund.
@BullProspecting8 ай бұрын
God has Blessed you sir🙏🙏🙏 P.S. I dislike it when this happens.... Its so hard to get off without acid...
@CuttinEJ8 ай бұрын
Oh man. You know it’s probably going to take another 4 days to get it back into metaling form. Right?
@markmayer20298 ай бұрын
What caused the surface to crust black/brown? Impurities in the acids?
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
I overcooked it
@navrangstudio82738 ай бұрын
Dear sir white powder is falling down in Aqua Regia what is it i don't understand
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
I don’t understand either, this is my first time.
@ObsoletePencil8 ай бұрын
Is it possible to make a cell, like you did with silver, but for gold?
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Yes, I have videos posted n my channel of it.
@brianevans18518 ай бұрын
Wow you know it reminds me of stuff that comes out of volcano vents that i have seen in videos not the sulfur but around the sulfur
@jimwednt12298 ай бұрын
In the most general of terms his methods of refinement, using heat and dissolution, chemical precipitation ,and reagents are similar to hydrothermal deposits.
@brianevans18518 ай бұрын
@@jimwednt1229 thank you I was thinking that after listening to Jeff Williams talking about gold deposits it does look like that for sure I watched the video again lolol
@paulbendall12388 ай бұрын
I could live off that bar for 20 years ❤
@Snib18 ай бұрын
I like the idea of crystalized chloroauric acid, im excited to see what comes from it. I just don't know how likely crystallization will be. It looks like alot of tar in there but I assume it's not tar right? It should be nearly pure gold ?
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Correct
@Aiasmor8 ай бұрын
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Its so beautiful.....
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Too big. If I decided to trade some gold for paper to pay my bills, I didn’t want to have to trade the whole thing.
@Aiasmor8 ай бұрын
@@sreetips Of course, I just am attached to that bar.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
I remember reading a short story in high school titled “The Pearl” this bar reminds me of that story.
@gregbroda8018 ай бұрын
it may be a silly question but when you dissolve this 50oz bar is the liquid equel heavy?
@CothranMike8 ай бұрын
Mass in a closed system can neither be destroyed nor created, it is still something which has that mass. Heavy syrup indeed.
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Not silly, the answer is yes.
@AndreDailyOfficial078 ай бұрын
what is the name of the place you used for the barrier of the heater🎉
@sreetips8 ай бұрын
Corning ware
@latifblagman16518 ай бұрын
Hey Streetips. I started watching you because like many of us viewers, I would love to be the guy to handle the amount of precious medals you do 😅. The thing is, my life is full of day to day struggles I proudly face for My loving wife and kids and I don't know if I'll ever have the time to submit myself to any of my hobbies. All in all, if there ever be a chance, I would love to work on your team or shadow you jus to be a part of the tranquility and peace us viewers get from your work.❤ Peace and blessings 🙏🏾
@Diznef-Vitaliy5 ай бұрын
Красивый слиток золота, на шоколадку похож 😊😅 . Очень умело отлит.
@sreetips5 ай бұрын
Thank you
@NeverEvil18 ай бұрын
Would you be willing to redissolve it and reprecipitate the gold and just hang onto the gold powder? Label as a soil sample and have a few of them real soil, some sand, and some gold precipitate. Keep the gold in prime numbered sample bottles.
@chemistryofquestionablequa62528 ай бұрын
The chloroauric acid is worth considerably more than the gold weight in it if it’s pure. The optics and electronics industries are big customers for that kind of stuff.
@SuperDavidEF8 ай бұрын
Really? What do they use it for?
@chemistryofquestionablequa62528 ай бұрын
@@SuperDavidEF super pure gold coatings on lenses and electronics connections. They need really pure gold for both.
@AndyGraceMedia8 ай бұрын
@@SuperDavidEF Gold nanoparticles used all over the place in science research and especially medicine these days for drug delivery and analysis. Most of the COVID rapid antigen tests use them.