Dissolving a pure gold bar in acid

[@b3z3jm3nny]

Fun fact, when Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck to prevent the Nazis from taking them. He just left it in a bottle on a shelf hoping it would remain undisturbed, and then after the war, he got the gold out of the acid, and the Nobel Society recast Franck and von Laue's awards from the original gold.

[@fukpoeslaw3613]

Could have just bury it. Was he a chemist or something?

[@TJStellmach]

@@fukpoeslaw3613 He got a Nobel prize in chemistry of his own in 1943.

[@PaiSAMSEN]

Did he dropped it too?

[@Scipiworld]

@@PaiSAMSEN no, but in 1941, English chemist Alfred Maddock spilt the entire United Kingdom's plutonium supply (10mg at the time) on a wooden table. He chopped up the table, burned it, then used wet chemistry to recover 9.5mg.

[@thedownwardmachine]

My wife: “That’s smart, I guess got that Nobel prize for a reason.”

[@SmileytheSmile]

I expected the ending to happen, and yet I audibly cried out anyway.

[@shekharr2227]

Like you could have faked that. You didn't have to lose 6 grand for a fucking joke 😭

[@SmileytheSmile]

@@shekharr2227 Well, he probably did. It would be easy to do that with that cutaway and how much the liquid looks like apple juice. But all that precious apple juice... Such tragedy...

[@D00000T]

@@shekharr2227 I highly doubt he would destroy the actual thing for just a joke especially when it’s for a short and not one of his full length videos

[@Frozendude19]

@@SmileytheSmile PLEASE GOD NOT THE APPLE JUICE

[@squelchedotter]

The real reason he wouldn't do that is because aqua regia is extremely corrosive and toxic

[@stupidpeoplepodcast1545]

Imagine being a crime lord, dissolving millions and millions of dollars worth of gold into a solution like this to hide it from the cops, just to then drop it while transporting it

[@ian2]

George de Hevesy actually did this to hide his Nobel Prizes from the Nazis. He was able to get them recast with the same gold.

[@kinfongyeung5400]

@@ian2 pretty sure he dissolve Bohr's medal, not his medal

[@ian2]

@@kinfongyeung5400 Ah yeah my mistake, they weren’t his. Pretty cool either way though.

[@zblacky2031]

You gave me an idea

[@egg4792]

aight I will see u next time thx for da tip dud

[@Ace-jz6op]

So that's when the purple gold experiment started And this video is 2 years old, NileRed is really impressive for going on with this for so long

[@bensoncheung2801]

Ye

[@AMTunLimited]

This is why we get random spats of videos, because it's impossible to tell whether or not an idea will take a month or two years. Damn good videos tho...

[@pliktl]

I dont mind it. I didnt catch him back then, so I am thankful it sparked more popularity

[@Chleosl]

He is one flow of the strong man.

[@dangerouscolors]

i knew it was coming and it still hurt my soul watching that beaker shatter. god bless this man carving out a niche in the most scream inducing way possible

[@starsandsus3725]

Girls: I can't believe he didn't cry at titanic Boys:

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

I'm still kinda hoping it's a prank...

[@xirris3299]

@@TheLukemcdaniel probably dropped lead iodide. He did a video on it and it looks near identical

[@masterimbecile]

Most likely just some orange-colored water. A self-respecting chemist ain't gonna spill ACID like that.

[@slimeball4l540]

@@masterimbecile i would

[@Fiery_Coefficient13]

Destroying expensive things with acid is the most Nilered thing.

[@copykat6508]

Your comment is spot's on

[@charmJL]

AMEN 👏👏

[@tappajavittu]

Nah, the most NileRed thing is to make edible things from non edible things.

[@drix4275]

Destroying expensive things with acid is tight! :D

[@firstnamelastname8865]

I destroyed my marriage with acid

[@stdesy]

“This is probably the most expensive thing I own so naturally I’m going to dissolve it in acid.” Is the most Nile statement in the world

[@user54363]

Bot

[@tf2spyclass09]

@yahiko💫 pls stop

[@skoopdewoop]

@yahiko💫 yahiNO

[@cachalotreal]

Hey guys today we're going to put a baby in a microwave and see what happens

[@furretman3741]

@@cachalotreal that's the cheapest thing he would have tho, only need reproductive cells and 9 months

[@mnhttn_]

Turned into purple gold after two years

[@FTotox]

Even though this was staged the fact that you tripped with the tungsten cube makes it funny af. And I sure want to see the reaction bringing that cute gold back.

[@revenevan11]

Omg I didn't even notice the cube!!🤣

[@comforth3898]

Me too

[@HyperVanilo]

As soon as I saw the cube I know what will happen next

[@generalsociety9607]

He's already made a video on his main channel on extracting gold from jewellery. Extracting it from Chloroauric acid is one of the later steps.

[@FTotox]

@@generalsociety9607 I've seen the video but didn't remember the process was in it thx :)

[@MrFastFox666]

Me: "wow that's some expensive liquid, imagine tossing it down the drain or dropping it" Nile: "say no more"

[@TheUnnamed198]

Say goodbye

[@MrFastFox666]

@@redseven4040 yeah, but the thought is still there. Imagine if he actually spilled the acid by accident.

[@archive8080]

He gives no indication that this was staged but it's easy to infer.

[@tf2spyclass09]

@@TheUnnamed198 you know the rules and so do i

[@tf2spyclass09]

@yahiko💫 pls stop plsssss

[@The_Spanish_Chemist]

Nile: Drops a 5000$ worth gold solution Also Nile: "Oh no"

[@DavidMGiles]

Pure acid gold

[@ErenYILDIZ_01]

Nile red i know you are reading this comment Pls send video to nile red channel (not nile red short)

[@bensamule3252]

lol

[@ogge9296]

because he's joking. do you know what a joke is?

[@erictremblay6867]

His name is Nigel Braun. NileRed is the channel. That was some good acting for a chemist. :)

[@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb]

Knowing where this actually came from is amazing

[@izzaaay]

quite a few of his projects take years to make

[@NikTek]

Why did my brain say “Drink it!” when I saw that gold solution

[@archonwarrior9146]

You could tell everyone that you just drank gold... if you survived

[@0DRONZER]

@Cristina💦 i agree

[@DeReKaeSe]

Forbidden Apple Juice

[@austintillman8297]

My brain did the same

[@MathMagicMoments]

Coz you are afraid of death and want to be immortal,idk what I am telling nothing making sense but take the reply

[@skyuwerelart2403]

Nile: "This the most expensive thing that i own." Also Nile: "Lets destroy it."

[@goku445]

you got that?

[@MarcellusJasonClay]

Why did i read this in gremlin language

[@C.C.N]

@@pushies5 /r woosh

[@santinodemaria2818]

@@pushies5 r/woooosh

[@Nick-dx2pt]

@@pushies5 umm what???? What does your comment have to do with anything????

[@9072997]

I'm sure that was food dye, but my brain was panicking more because you spilled acid than because you spilled $5,000

[@melopinne]

some acid is safe

[@9072997]

@@melopinne I remember one of the PCB etchants is absurdly dangerous because it vaporizes at room temperature, and deadens nerves so you don't notice it. I want to say that was hydrochloric acid, but I might be remembering that wrong. I recognize that there are some safe acids (like vinegar).

[@askhowiknow5527]

xD

[@askhowiknow5527]

@@9072997 hydrochloric acid is in my stomach right now so I doubt it

[@9072997]

@@askhowiknow5527 I was thinking of Hydrofluoric acid. My bad.

[@rehanajawaid1234]

Fun fact: It doesn't turned yellow when it cool down its just that he couldn't find the matching dye like the acid and gold solution 😂

[@reeva_vlogss]

No no it does turn to light color

[@Niagaranobs]

*sigh of relief*

[@devendersingh2]

Bro bunked chemistry lectures

[@noraduong8755]

fairly sure he saved money on food dye and just used his piss

[@maxthebear7765]

@@noraduong8755that’s extremely unhealthy piss

[@mannygutierrez7654]

I was literally thinking "he's gonna drop it to shock me" He does it *AND I STILL GASPED*

[@vincentjenei]

The world doesnt revolve around you.

[@Soarfloh]

@@vincentjenei chicken sandwich

[@M3TR01DFANBOY]

@@Soarfloh I don't want a fucking chicken sandwich you fucking gooback!

[@callmeshaggy5166]

I even saw the block he was going to "trip" over

[@hoogreen]

@@vincentjenei chicken sandwich

[@kejwhe]

I love how spending 5400 dollars gets him 250k views but putting an egg in a microwave got him 3 million

[@duovigintillongaming3779]

Lol

[@mhmkeku]

a random person here 13 days after this comment was posted, the egg video now has 6.1 million but this only has 679k

[@AmandaNavarro]

KZbin didn't even send me the notification on my phone for this one 😭 I had to find out it was posted 2 weeks ago from my home screen. Which is weird because I have it set to send me all notifications.

[@yuncloud6484]

not even a thousand dollars yet.

[@ryulanda9399]

Not even 500

[@david.greene]

That reaction at the end was pure-gold!

[@cobalt_ink6114]

👏

[@fruitbouquet5479]

I see what you did there 👀

[@skyefossey179]

Brh

[@orphicyan826]

ye literally

[@holyassbutts]

Akchually **snorts** it was a combination of gold, hydrochloric acid, and nitric acid **farts** try to get your facts right next time, nerd **adjusts glasses**

[@MoonlightMirage]

Oh if anyone happens to be here after he made purple gold: To watch him bring the gold back, he had a project a while back on extracting gold from jewelry, and that also shows how he turned the liquid gold into a solid :)

[@maxwhite4732]

This was a major turning point in the great metal war when the tungsten nation deployed its infamous tungsten cube to intercept the gold empires logistics, this allowed the tungsten forces to take advantage of the golds weakened state during transportation.

[@helper_bot]

i'd tell you your comment is gold, but Nigel already dropped the joke

[@Weelki]

"Tungsten. Gold. Platinum. Silver. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when NileRed kept balance between the Silver Tribes, Gold Kingdom, Tungsten Nation, and Platinum Nomads. But that all changed when the Tungsten Nation attacked..."

[@pramodpoddar1015]

Fun fact Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down

[@sohaibal-hadheri5998]

@@pramodpoddar1015 never gonna run around and..... wait dammit I fell for it again.

[@Zed9659]

Gg

[@elgusaniiiodeljuego6823]

This video is a metaphor on how you can waste your riches and wealth on acid. Stay safe youngsters.

[@rubyrules]

Dude, I ate these wierd looking mushrooms and suddenly I'm in a shack in the middle of nowhere, my $690k Bugatti and all of my jerky is gone

[@lonewretch]

@@rubyrules sounds more like Amanita muscaria!

[@Bruce-Leroy]

@@rubyrules been there.

[@discobecky9179]

funny paper is p cheap tbh

[@Daiceto]

Drugs are bad, m'kay?

[@laz4rd215]

Gold be “what did I do tho”?

[@A.bstyle__FF]

Not much

[@dondon5791]

@@LUNA-rr8zo No thanks, I like my Donut churros dry with a hot cup of coffee

[@ErenYILDIZ_01]

Nile red i know you are reading this comment Pls send video to nile red channel (not nile red short)

[@SHACOBES123]

Gold be like "what the dog doin"

[@kkkkkk5905]

Its better when you gifted to someone who Need it, to mě fór example.😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@ManWhoIsSus]

So now you know this a part of purple gold project.

[@PrateekSrivastava789]

Nile to his best friend: "I treasure our friendship. You're so precious to me" Best friend: 🏃🏃🏃🏃

[@ripjawsquad]

"you're more precious to me than my 5700 dollar gold bar!"

[@hornstein12]

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@AmazingErrChannel]

@@ripjawsquad “Dissolving my best friend in piranha solution”

[@kimpavfx]

curry

[@aiwwakk7152]

Pajeeth Curry!!

[@boat378]

After watching this channel for a while, I've learned that nothing is ever really destroyed, it's just changed into something else at the chemical level.

[@kroneexe]

everyone knew that already. It's quite intuitive.

[@nikkimoon1533]

itsnt that some law of conservation?

[@seniorgamer1495]

@@nikkimoon1533 law of conservation of mass

[@casper64]

R/iam14andthisisdeep

[@organicleaf]

@@casper64 i mean, what do you expect from someone with an underaged girl as their profilepic

[@rileyf.838]

let’s be honest, the second we saw him walking with it we all knew

[@mikesmith7620]

😂😂😂😂

[@satansbarman]

Yeah holding the beaker from the top was a dead giveaway 🤣

[@divyasoni3834]

Absolutely 😂😂

[@thulium_3169]

@Honey same

[@randomalt9617]

Thankfully it wasn’t the actual solution of chloroauric acid

[@Aditya-wg3lp]

He slipped on his block of tungsten if you caught that💀

[@ThePeterDislikeShow]

My first thought was that if some of the solution touched the tungsten it might displace the gold back out because tungsten is more reactive!

[@mayurchavhan8590]

He took "liquidating gold" asset meaning literally .

[@CyberNako]

xDD

[@AdamEmond]

I mean, I got some outstanding medical bills if you're looking to throw another 5grand on the floor.

[@tornadolugia4519]

Baby don't cry

[@TheRisingTide89]

It's youtube bud theres kids throwing 15K in the ocean and ppl destroying 1 million dollar cars for the views😭 go find a youtuber wasting significant cash

[@TheRisingTide89]

@@tornadolugia4519 dude cryin cuz he broke like its the video makers fault😭😂

[@AdamEmond]

Oops, forgot to show emotion again. Pretend I said this in a light-hearted way. And pretend that I used these emojis: 😂🙃

[@Wtfinc]

@@TheRisingTide89 lol u look broke, idk what ur on about. Dude just said he had medical bills, not that he was broke.

[@loho1125]

I need to know: Did he really drop the 5000$ liquid or did he swap it for something else?????

[@evanf111og]

id like to think something else but i wouldn't put it past him

[@AhmadBakdash07]

🤔 nice question

[@Shimo_28]

@@LUNA-rr8zo this bot shit is for now the worst thing that I have experienced on youtube

[@frostjune6072]

almost guarantee he swapped it, he captured it too perfectly

[@Zzudwa]

Initially he said it's 5700 dollars. So we may assume that he managed to collect from the floor and restore only $5000 worth of liquid

[@angelicdream708]

"Tell me your rich without telling me your rich" "I dissolve gold and spill it on the floor..."

[@catto9207]

Pls tell me that that is just colored water

[@elljorgo]

That wasn't the real solution. It was cleverly swapped by a solution of potassium dichromate which is virtually indistinguishable in color. And a lot, lot, lot less expensive.

[@everettbruckerhoff6029]

Yes Officer, He's the guy who ruined the joke!

[@alifizharulhaq3370]

@@everettbruckerhoff6029 I mean... I would like to know what he swapped it with

[@addysaurus_gayii]

I knew from that start that it wasn’t the real solution, but I still really want to believe that it was.

[@mcmystix]

@@everettbruckerhoff6029 it wasnt that big of a secret cuz dropping aqua regia on the floor is definitely not a good idea

[@pada443]

Or just orange food coloring...

[@RCT3Crashes100]

As an additional fun fact, the traditional and common name for the mix of Hydrochloric and Nitric acid used to turn the gold into Chloroauric acid is referred to as ‘aqua regia’, or literally ‘royal water’. Aqua regia can also react with other precious metals such as silver and platinum, but curiously, silver doesn’t dissolve as well as the other metals, in part because it forms a protective layer of silver chloride during the reaction which blocks more of the aqua regia from reaching the metal underneath.

[@luiseduardolima1223]

Interesting. I heard about the aqua regia (here we call of água régia) and the interaction with the gold. But with the silver I've never expecting it. Could this reaction, which occurred in the aqua regia + nitric acid, have some kind of anti-corrosive mechanism such as passivation?

[@AdityaTiwari-es3lq]

Pff we were taught that in 9th grade 😏

[@synthesizer8026]

However silver can also be dissolved in other acids, including plain HCl(aq) (hydrochloric acid) as silver oxidizes rather easy, gold on the other had needs an oxidizing acid such as nitric acid added.

[@synthesizer8026]

I forgot to add, as you mentioned with the aqua regia, in HCl you need to remove the layer of AgCl in order to keep the reaction going.

[@Greentogreener]

Wow 🤩

[@beingcreative2254]

1:10 Le normal guy : Water worth 5700 dollars I am going to drink with some added flavors

[@flozon5240]

The tungsten cube strikes again

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

I'm not the only one that remembers it!

[@RandomGS]

Tungsten cube likes seeing gold in liquid form being spilled.

[@Estazhe]

Nilered lore??

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

@@Estazhe yes indeed. It's a video called tungsten cube lmao

[@tomikun8057]

reminds me of kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWiooJZ3Zs2mebc

[@nathantang9964]

I love how he purposely left a tungsten block on the ground just to make the drop more believable lmaoo

[@Jetsonn]

Yeah😂😂😂 ope, forgot that block of tungsten right there

[@sutripanchaudhuri2246]

For people who don't know about this thing .. A combination of HCl(Hydrochloric acid) and H2NO3 (nitric acid) is called aqua regia that is used to dissolve gold. Its a common practice Ong gold Smiths who shaped pure gold into ornaments and wearables:)

[@sheev9852]

Nitric acid is HNO3 not H2NO3, the latter is nitrooxonium

[@EIevenBytes]

🤓

[@Anti_Septikum]

It's royal water

[@Astromath]

​@@Anti_Septikum"aqua regia" = royal water

[@Anti_Septikum]

@@Astromath no shit Sherlock

[@zek-csgo680]

He actually did that on purpose and I don't think he spilled the gold , changed it with some other liquid

[@RylTheValstrax]

After the soysauce bromine, I saw that coming! XD - Pity that the soysauce couldnt easily be made to give off brown fumes (safely at least), so it was harder to convincingly reproduce than the chloroauric acid, which was probably reproduced with just the right amount of food coloring for the drop shot. Looking forward to seeing the extraction of the gold back out of the solution, growing metal crystals from a solution is always fun.

[@kumarjoshi66]

Probably needs a bit of electrochemistry to get it back.

[@a.j.miller872]

In his other gold extraction video I think he just used a single replacement reaction to reform the gold metal

[@neelo420]

wouldn't just adding some base work?

[@kumarjoshi66]

@@neelo420 Yeah a base could be added, once a hydroxide is obtained it can be heated and baked and metal gold could be obtained.

[@alolanstarboy]

What bromine video are you talking about though

[@innovationtalk3734]

*and it’s one of the most expensive, precious things I own. But any way, I think I’m just gonna destroy it using acid.* Classic Nilered

[@Eugenekrabs8988]

He could extract that gold out of that solution that he dissolved it in, and make it into sold gold again. The gold didn't just disappear it is in the solution.

[@innovationtalk3734]

@@Eugenekrabs8988 you might want to watch the whole video (1:21)

[@Eugenekrabs8988]

@@innovationtalk3734 Someone replyed to me that the solution was highly corrosive and was like "you think he is dumb enough to do that". I don't know if he did or not but shoot lol.

[@NeoAemaeth]

@@Eugenekrabs8988 If it was the actual solution, the floor and wall would start to sizzle and the aqua regia would immediately start reacting with everything, releasing toxic fumes. It would look quite different.

[@innovationtalk3734]

@NeoAemaeth Dude aqua regia can only dissolve some of the noble metals. Its not some super science fiction liquid

[@SyceXD]

Nile: “it’s one of the most precious things that I own” Also Nile: I’m just gonna destroy it using acid

[@SyceXD]

@@boanerge5885 maybe

[@loho1125]

Well, he can get the gold back completely by just dropping some other metal in the solution. But that stuff needs to be melted and put into a mould to become a bar again

[@Straumnes]

Yes, that's what he said. Congratulations on... quoting the video I guess?

[@ErenYILDIZ_01]

Nile red i know you are reading this comment Pls send video to nile red channel (not nile red short)

[@burpbot7555]

@S O F I A If he's a regular person in the US, that's not one of the most expensive things he owns, tho.

[@newhorizon4470]

Pure gold bar turns into poor gold bar.

[@sadia_zinia]

1:21 I had a mini heart attack 🙂..

[@Atzee]

Nilered : drops a solution having 6grand worth gold. Everyone : ah shit, here we go again.

[@FrozenBusChannel]

Here we *gold* again

[@matguimond92]

it looks like orange drink

[@Atzee]

@@candylover6419 tbh it could be anything, even water with added colours maybe..

[@nggodplayer9383]

@@candylover6419 he replaced it with something almost exactly that color called potassium dichromate

[@octoquetra9198]

57 grand

[@waavhal]

The solution which dissolves the gold is called 'Aqua regia', a mixture of HCl and HNO3. This was in our textbook for 9th or 10th grade to make us a bit aware I suppose. This is the method which goldsmiths use to steal a little bit of gold every time someone came to polish their jewelry.

[@Pratyush2124]

Correct, my grandmother told me about an incident when someone came to polish her jewelry where he dipped her gold chain in that mixture and gave her back. She told that the weight of the chain decreased by half but after that she made him throw that solution away 😂

[@waavhal]

@@Pratyush2124 Sad. Your grammy is a genius though😂

[@Pratyush2124]

@@waavhal 😅😂

[@shinchan4216]

10th grade

[@geraldwallsjr8380]

Ahhhhh so that how some jewelry stores stay in business for soo long

[@chtechindustries4174]

“Most expensive thing I own” “Well, time to dissolve it!”

[@mwiz100]

I fully predicted a (staged) drop coming and I still jumped when it happened. Also the timing on the "oh no" is utterly perfect.

[@spicybook]

@yahiko💫 i clicked on the link and this windows defender thing came up on my laptop and it says there is a trojan what is it pls tell 😭😭😭

[@FunniBloop]

@@spicybook don’t click on random links strangers send, also pretty sure it’s like a 18+ link cuz it says 18

[@HypnosisBear]

@@spicybook Don't click on random links, those are just scams. Please take my advice seriously.

[@lolpop2118]

@@spicybook Dont click random links they could contain malware, virus, and they can collect your IP address to know your location which could get in the hands of the wrong people

[@lolpop2118]

@@spicybook Trojan is a virus or some malicious stuff

[@ykpoff]

Nile: “it’s one of the most precious things that I own” Also Nile: I’m just gonna destroy it using acid And Then Nile: I will recover it since I am chemist.

[@A_Professional_Idiot_mk.2]

But actually also Nile: oh no

[@thenemesis7114]

@@A_Professional_Idiot_mk.2 actually it was staged, you can see the really hevay metal cube in the gound and he tripped on it so he changed the becker within the cut and then just fake tripped on the cube

[@FallSkyX]

@@thenemesis7114 ok, he does all of this on purpose.

[@thenemesis7114]

@@FallSkyX for a moment i fell for that too btw

[@1brytol]

And then Nile: well i won't because i'm clumsy af

[@TheKrighter]

I worked in a factory many years ago where a guy did this same thing. The gold bar was mean to to be in the acid for about an hour, but he forgot about it until the next day, when he discovered that it was gone. Oopsy.

[@Nik-6675]

Oh uh over 5k down the drain, no big deal.

[@hgu]

It’s not gone it can be recovered

[@williammielenz3752]

Did he leave work with His Thermos full?

[@TheKrighter]

@@rsh650 Not sure, I was in Production Control, but if I remember correctly they were just trying to clean it up before putting it through some sort of process. The company made electrical connectors, including the ones that went on the Apollo spacecraft., which by the way were made of gold, as was all of the wiring in the moon lander, etc.

[@loojawmanandhar9808]

Then he discovered that his job was gone.

[@alexmatt4012]

This was slower than money burning in a stock market crash.

[@prismagaming832]

I’m starting to love these accidental shorts now lol first I love the fake soy sauce bromine thing and now gold spill xD

[@d.a.r.n1869]

lmao, the replies here

[@mutantgeralt]

Fake soy sauce bromine thing? Fill us in on this dude

[@Alphax36]

@@mutantgeralt watch his short on bromine

[@moosedoug]

@@Alphax36 I just watched that short, I'm not sure I understand

[@Ninjaeule97]

@@mutantgeralt watch the short of him making the deadliest popcicle.

[@urldroidsuperbot2139]

We learned in school chemistry hydrochloric acid + nitric acid mixture is called "Aqua Regia" because it can dissolve gold, the king of metals. Neither hydrochloric acid nor nitric acid alone can do it and gold's specialty is not getting oxidized or forming compounds due to weathering and remaining in shining pure element form. Thanks NileRed for videographing something which we could only read about in books. Modern generation has much more fun learning, I suppose.

[@joelrumal74]

Good bro...i was searching for this whether i'm right or wrong.....was it aqua regia....we learned this in 9th standard.

[@dataquester]

Aqua regia... sounds like a stripper name..lol

[@kf10147]

He goes into the whole process in a longer main channel video about turning gold jewelry into a gold bar!

[@urldroidsuperbot2139]

@@kf10147 That is a different set of experiments.

[@joelrumal74]

@@dataquester Its not less than that too....it can lol

[@MachoMan_Vert]

"Oh wait he probably can extract the gold from it" **Carries the beaker slowly with one hand** "He's going to waste the solution isn't he?" **Drops it** "Instant classic"

[@UniverseUA]

Unnoticed fact: the thing he tripped on at the end is his massive tungsten cube

[@YourKanishk1]

I am in 10th grade and this same thing our chemistry teacher taught us a few months ago Not like by experiment but by explaining The mixture of Hydrochloric acid and nitric acid is called Aqua regia in which HCL and HNO3 is dissolved in a rario of 3:1 When I found out about this I was completely amazed by this and still am Chemistry is fun!

[@jayapradamaddela8489]

Same!

[@dhanarajm3500]

We too learnt about it

[@hiteshsaroha170]

It's fun until you have to struggle for marks in 12th

[@jayapradamaddela8489]

@@hiteshsaroha170 Maybe that's true but some people have a knack for it and are interested in it. Not everyone struggles for marks in 12th. Chemistry is FUN when we understand it.

[@hiteshsaroha170]

@@jayapradamaddela8489 bro it's not fun when you don't understand it my board exam is on 28 Feb

[@hosseinsalehi8821]

The one that broke was not the same solution. Its volume was around 400 ml, while the Au-containing solution was about 425 ml. Colors are also slightly different ;)

[@Mis7erSeven]

Wow, you must be so smart for noticing what thousands of people already wrote in the comments...

[@camulodunon]

@@Mis7erSeven not those specifically, the other comments just knew that logically he didn't actually drop the gold acid.

[@ramunasstulga8264]

Do you not notice the illumination is not the same?

[@kallmekaveen6060]

@@Mis7erSeven someone is jealous that they didn't get to it first lmao

[@sssbattleaxe]

Stop spreading false information

[@Leo-qt9hg]

It's aqua regia solution that is formed by mixing HCl and HNo3 in the ratio of 3:1. It is a highly corrosive solution that has the power to dissolve any metal, including gold and platinum,

[@BuyOrBuyNot123]

Can it dissolve carbon?

[@jamesgoble7066]

@@BuyOrBuyNot123 Elemental carbon isnt dissolvable in any acids, but it will have different reactions with it depending on what acid is used

[@schwarzesfleisch5809]

@@jamesgoble7066 well, it's half of true, carbon can react with concentrated sulfuric acid forming CO2, SO2 and water

[@whatelseison8970]

@@BuyOrBuyNot123 Strongly oxidizing acids like peroxymonosulfuric acid, (generated in situ in piranha solution) can react with amorphous carbon directly, but the carbon itself ends up as CO2 gas, not in the solution.

[@95rav]

Check out dissolving diamond (pure carbon) in acid.

[@cheesebreeze2]

Have you been working on the purple gold video for over 2 years, or is this a different time you melted a 100g of gold with Acid and made the same joke about dropping it?

[@pirate1619]

Time Traveler! I Also Was Stunned Watching This!

[@anomaly3215]

is it not obvious that it's the same? do you have eyes? the frames are the same with different audio tracks

[@cheesebreeze2]

@@anomaly3215 Yes, I could tell it is the same, the second part of the question was a joke.

[@dredddizzah9705]

"Did you drop it?" "Yes." "What did it cost?" "5,700 dollars."

[@animal_cookie]

As someone who regularly uses aqua regia, my whole body is now in the fight/flight response at the thought of nearly 500 mL of it being spilled on an open floor (even knowing it was probably just a gag)

[@WilliamFord972]

Strong-acid mixture go brrrr

[@myrlyn1250]

Is there any fight to that response? Mine is Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills!" (Pretty sure any toxic gases will stay in the lowest areas, so...)

[@chloethesatisfyinggirl3413]

I love how he said “this is the most valuable thing i own. But let’s destroy it!

[@Yora21]

Let's *transform* it!

[@flaminguprise]

You finally found a use for that Cube.

[@the_rising_phoenix7019]

nile in future *my baby is the most precious person i hv...* *also nile: proceeds to make it a test subject of anti gravitation*

[@nattodatto]

"Oh dear, my wife is going to kill me"

[@VishnuPandey93]

💀

[@FarhanKhan-ye2ve]

Me: “Bro imagine if someone had a gold solution” Nile:backs away nervously

[@a-rex1.5gb10]

Breh

[@lifepasses1875]

Gold soup

[@googlewolly]

cool video. Making a follow-up video where you recover the gold would also be cool.

[@lil_weasel219]

its potassium dichromate solution. He didnt spill it

[@googlewolly]

@@lil_weasel219 I never said that he spilled it. I said that he should make a follow-up video where he recovers the gold. I know that the "spill" was an act.

[@craterglass]

1. Wipe up with paper towels. 2. Burn the towels to ashes. 3. Treat ashes with aqua regia. 4. Filter off ashes. 5. Precipitate gold

[@kori_snw]

​@@craterglass Silver nitrate, when absorbed in a paper towel and burned, leaves thin silver strips instead of ashes. I wonder if chloroauric acid would react the same.

[@craterglass]

@@kori_snw Here's a video showing the process. I'm not sure how higher concentrations might react. kzbin.info/www/bejne/enKxpIquostkqKM

[@yoda55555]

Fun fact when in 2003 during the Invasion of Iraq, british hundreds of Kilos of Iraqi gold in the gas tank of their tanks and when they got back to england they opened those tanks gas tanks and gor the gold out.

[@atharvajumde52]

Where's the gold bar? Gone, reduced to atoms

[@mrgw98]

Incase anyone is wondering, he swapped the fluid for something less expensive. He posted a video on Twitter a while back of him purposefully stumbling into that block he "tripped" on.

[@rajiv88.85]

The real experiment views = 717k Copied experiment views = 7.7M

[@randomhooman3236]

also it is on trending and it have 500k+ likes

[@Black-tq8ef]

It's not even copied. He just stole the video and even has the audacity to say he did the experiment.

[@cheeseboogar]

Lmao after 2 years i would've given up the project and forget about it

[@robertlapointe4093]

If you look close at 1:20 a metal cube (tungsten?) just happens to be in his path to trip over, so it is pretty clearly a set up. Having had the experience of needing to recover very expensive (way more than this gold bar is worth) synthesis products from unfortunate accidents (flasks bursting in glove-box ante-chambers, dropped into rotary-evaporator baths, powder launching out of blenders, etc.) I can't believe he would set himself up for that level of hassle. Also, remember that this solution was mostly concentrated hydrochloric acid, which fumes in air and eats concrete pretty quick. I don't see any sign of either expected effect in the spilled fluid, so it is not his chloroauric acid solution.

[@TheTdw2000]

wow nothing gets past you

[@robertlapointe4093]

@@TheTdw2000 After 40 years as a professional observer (industrial research chemist) it gets to be a habit.

[@TheTdw2000]

@@robertlapointe4093 and here I thought he actually spilled his $5700 solution and didn't just fake it for dramatic effect, thank you for confirming that with your chemical expertise. I woulda never figured it out.

[@hallowacko]

No way that Nile dropped that, that has to be a stunt with some other yellow liquid.

[@robertcuff5704]

Obviously

[@robertcuff5704]

It never turned orange, look at the volume difference

[@cooknaris]

duh

[@praveenawesome2182]

Hehe

[@juliusbernotas]

That was his piss

[@tensazero]

Nile: "I quickly mopped up the solution as best I could. Then I recovered the gold. The yield though was only about 108g grams. Wait..."

[@emmanuelthesasuke4688]

This solution is called aqua regia, it is one of the only few reagents which can dissolve gold ajd silver

[@broncatdraws6476]

He basically just dissolved $5,700 dollars in acid for a video. What a flex.

[@duxangus]

I knew the second I saw him improperly holding the covered beaker what would happen and I love it

[@fidelcrisis]

Nile as Doc Octopus: "Power of the Sun in my palm" drops it.... creates black hole. Nile: "Oh No"

[@ticloo3936]

STOP WASTING RESOURCES. PEOPLE ARE STARVING

[@toomanyblocks8448]

He dropped orange water

[@nanamikento4205]

The way he said "oh no'" caught me off guard and now I'm wheezing on the floor!😭😭😭

[@deez_bulletz]

The way he was holding it, I thought to myself that's a good way to drop it and then my jaw dropped when he did smh

[@kyzercube]

There's no way he'd hold it like that. If that really was the gold solution, just sprinkle SMBS all over the floor so the gold crashes out of solution and start sweeping 🤣

[@sillfsxa1927]

Well done Sherlock, how did you guess?

[@kyzercube]

@@sillfsxa1927 Idk, maybe it's all the pederass spamming in the comments that gave it away.

[@MNSTR19078]

Bro destroyed $5,700 because he was bored

[@MartinIsRunning]

Your content is 🔥 both because of your knowledge and comedic timing. Keep it up!

[@frenlyfire]

huh???

[@vedanshdubey2880]

Hey Nile, was really curious how you dispose these acids? Can we have a possible video on acid treatment before disposal?

[@Yodah97]

He does cleanup videos on his second channel. Just look up "nilored cleanup".

[@abhishekvarma3001]

He just disposed it on the floor didn’t you see? It’s a classic way to dispose any acid 👍🏻

[@xboxboy93941]

I know for Hydrochloric acid, you can just add a bit of universal indicator and slowly add baking soda to neutralize. Once it turns green via the indicator, the pH is now neutral, and the resulting mixture is just dissolved table salt, which can just go down the drain. I believe a similar process can probably be followed for the Nitric acid. The resulting mixture for that neutralization would be Sodium Nitrate, which I believe might be safe to pour down the drain as well (a quick web search and skimming the MSDS didn't show any special disposal methods).

[@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis]

@@xboxboy93941 baking soda is base?

[@xboxboy93941]

@@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis Yep, baking soda is basic.

[@J19_vlogger74]

Nile: [spills almost 6 grand in the floor] Also Nile: [in the calmest tone of voice I've ever heard] "oh no" [edit] woah

[@divyaa-qe8kn]

I’m pretty sure it was water and food coloring, but don’t take my word for it…

[@J19_vlogger74]

@@divyaa-qe8kn i hope so

[@divyaa-qe8kn]

@@J19_vlogger74 same

[@ThePeterDislikeShow]

I was actually more concerned about the potential toxicity than of the lost money. Good health is irreplaceable.

[@dishakalita6208]

The Solution Is Aqua Regia Which Is A Mixture Of Hydrochloric Acid And Nitric Acid In 3:1 Ratio. Gold And Platinum Can Only Be Dissolved In This Solution But Neither HCl Nor HNO3 Could Do It Alone. ( I Am In Class 10th. Got It In My NCERT Book )

[@frh_astroboy8215]

For those who are concerned, the beaker dropped at the end was not really the gold.

[@druidofthefang]

yes it was

[@DoctorNemmo]

It absolutely was

[@ceoofgex7552]

@@DoctorNemmo bruhhh even when it comes to nile, he's not stupid enough to actually destroy it. pretty sure that was just colored water.

[@freezingcathedral]

why would anybody care about gold?

[@ceoofgex7552]

@@freezingcathedral because it's pure 24k gold, which is ungodly expensive.

[@UnIvErS8uL]

Fun fact: A 3:1 proportionated solution of HCl and HNO3 respectively forms a mixture called AQUA REGIA which is capable of dissolving gold, silver, platinum et cetra.

[@Hail_THELord]

Yess

[@00bean00]

But can it dissolve medical debt?

[@orca-e2x]

Nile: It was handled in a controlled environment Also Nile: *drops a beaker with the acid in it*

[@py8554]

Chloroauric acid is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula H[AuCl4]. It forms hydrates H[AuCl4]·nH2O. Both the trihydrate and tetrahydrate are known. Both are orange-yellow solids consisting of the planar [AuCl4]− anion. Often chloroauric acid is handled as a solution, such as those obtained by dissolution of gold in aqua regia. These solutions can be converted to other gold complexes or reduced to metallic gold or gold nanoparticles. Chloroauric acid is produced by dissolving gold in aqua regia (a mixture of concentrated nitric and hydrochloric acids) followed by careful evaporation of the solution: Au(s) + HNO3(aq) + 4 HCl(aq) → H[AuCl4](aq) + NO(g) + 2 H2O(l) - Wikipedia

[@Cochu]

I can't tell if him dropping the gold at the end was an accident or planned

[@advait9138]

That was fake gold and it was planned 🤣

[@Rickmakes]

The block on the floor is likely tungsten. It’s not something that would just be hanging out on the floor.

[@mentalizatelo]

Looked pretty real to me, like the glass broke.

[@TheTdw2000]

yes. he dropped $5,700 worth of gold onto the floor. there is no way he would create a fake solution and pretend to drop it for comedic effect.

[@Cochu]

@@TheTdw2000 you think someone would go on the internet and tell lies? just like that? :/

[@cverse395]

Put a strike please

[@that_one_helljumper]

“Its one of the most expensive and precious things I own” *proceeds to completely destroy it*

[@aayushshrivastava2072]

This is called aqua regia right?

[@themondei746]

Nile spends 5,000$ in acid and is a scientist. And I spend 5 dollar in acid and they call me drug addict. Unfair!

[@Aaron-hh8nx]

Who calls you that?

[@ikitclaw7146]

5 dollars for acid? drop me your dealers number plz! :D

[@warrenarnold]

Yes i also want what you are using 😅

[@Husk100]

bro is so rich that he dissolved pure gold in acid

[@notverypog]

batman on weekends:

[@Kaishidow]

And that's fucking disgusting.

[@sabitkhanal1285]

He vaporised diamond too 💀

[@SC-RGX7]

I know he's a professional, but I can't stress out how a dropped beaker of aqua regia scares me when its spilled everywhere. Sheees

[@atharvakpatil]

I dont think thats the real aqua regia most likely similar coloured liquid solution

[@erictremblay6867]

Most likely Dihydrogen monoxide that he dropped for effect.

[@alihakanylmaz6845]

@@erictremblay6867Yeah Probably. Dropping The Aqua regia Would Not only be very Expensive, it would have been very dangerous

[@erictremblay6867]

@@alihakanylmaz6845 I doubt the reaction would have been "Oh no".

[@calabrais]

@@erictremblay6867 😂 right plus food coloring

[@CrunchyCraniumYum]

it’s because when you mix conc. hcl with conc. hno3 in the 3:1 ratio that’s aqua regia(royal water in latin) and that mixture is able to dissolve gold when non of the acids can do alone it’s those few acids that can also fuck up the platinum. hope that helped