Extracting pure silver from a coin

In this video I show you how to extract silver from a coin or other metallic material. The coin that I used is 50% copper and 50% silver.
I loosely followed the procedure from here: www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/t...
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[@MrRevolverkiller]

you've def gotten better over the last 6 years. cheers mate!

[@briann517]

That sounds like a backhanded compliment lol

[@MrRevolverkiller]

@@briann517 i honestly didn’t mean it to be, he has gotten better as you do over 6 years

[@juanrapington4411]

I guess I know what you mean, he sounds more confident now but it’s all good content ❤️

[@JNelson_]

@Big Cat Little Lion I mean this is a chemistry channel not a coin collecting channel. Furthermore destroying a coin is not illegal as long as the intent isn't for fraud or selling the raw materials. The value in the video is from the education aspect.

[@abdulmuse1507]

@Big Cat Little Lion oxygen is a very valuable thing, yet it is being wasted on you.

[@chrisl3193]

"The reaction that is taking place is shown above" Me who failed one chemistry class 6 years ago: "ah right right, of course. obviously"

[@CallMeMimi27]

I like your funny words magic man

[@nickcampbell3812]

I like how I can tell how recent the video based on his voice.

[@CallMeMimi27]

Back then: explains things like s college post grad student. Now: lets poke it with a knife itll be fun lol

[@daveoverton4319]

I like that you explained what caused the loss of Ag so that those who are trying to purify silver, maybe from ore, can maximize their yield following your instructions.

[@Freemoney1000]

Damn he should redo this one, would be fire in his new style

[@petebuxton3341]

I absolutely love your videos, no disrespect to "Nurd rage" because I really like his vids too.....but, your description of the methods you use is far superior.....you speak steadily and with confidence as a true professional should. Please keep on making your superb videos. Nobody is even close to you on youtube and I don't say this lightly. Best wishes, Peter

[@NileRed]

Thank you very much. That means a lot!

[@FXGreggan.]

***** This is basically the same method I use and I've sent samples for testing to the national standards lab and the (core drill) samples come back 99.8-99.9% pure

[@maggiep9007]

Just cause ur slow doesn't mean nr is bad.

[@KnakuanaRka]

Adam Defibaugh Yeah, Nurd’s voice modulator always bugged me. I also prefer Nile’s videos because he’s more interested in accessibility and aiming for a wider layman audience, with his reaction diagrams and general presentation; Nurd is clearly intended for an audience who is already fairly educated in chemistry. I mean, check the comments on basically any of Nile’s videos, and take a shot whenever someone says something like “You’re the one who got me interested in chemistry” or “Your videos have been a godsend in OChem class” or “I honestly don’t understand any of this, so why am I still watching?”; does Nurd get these sorts of comments?

[@clmk0515]

ditto

[@burntorangeak]

Fun to look back, and recognize how far Niles' on air persona has evolved.

[@randominternetprofile8270]

I think you have the best videos that are informative, yet simplistic to try at home with little to no knowledge in chemistry.

[@salty-as-heck9915]

I'm glad you threw in a cheap coin. I was dreading before hand that you would be throwing in a $1000 1820's silver dollar, not realizing what you had.

[@NileRed]

+Osley Sallent haha that would be very sad indeed

[@sonnydelight5737]

Silver dollars weren't made in the 1820's.

[@patdn63]

@@sonnydelight5737 not true look it up

[@chloehennessey6813]

@@sonnydelight5737 they had both silver eagles and gold ones back than sir

[@sonnydelight5737]

@@chloehennessey6813 - I'll give you one billion dollars for a genuine 1820's silver dollar. Surely you can use this statement as evidence. Then track me down to collect your billion dollars. Fool

[@markbarbee3454]

Finally, someone who explains this process in quick and simple terms! And with a professional video, not like some guys who have never used a camera tripod or don't moonlight as Meth producers.

[@DanceKomander]

This is a really interesting experiment! I am half way through Gen Chem1 in college right now. I have been watching your videos for about six months. I am finally starting to understand what is going on in them. I always enjoy them a lot!

[@NileRed]

I am glad you enjoy them! They range from gen chem to some specific organic chemistry, so you will slowly understand more as you learn more!

[@maxblay5024]

You need to make more videos like this they're interesting as hell

[@nathanhawee5373]

Rite on just want to let ya know that ppl are still finding this helpful and informative, I'm doing homework on working with and extracting silver. And honestly this process is very close to how you make THC oil(extract) just with different materials. Thanks

[@WalterMelones]

You sound... So chill. Super relaxing, hard to get into the science; but I'm so comfy.

[@ejlee5603]

This was pleasing to watch and listen to, thank you!

[@ejlee5603]

max3zizo ... First of all, why do you assume I'm a typical "chinese lady?" Second, I have silver and gold of my own bought from my hard earned money, why would I want someone else's - it's not as satisfying. Third, this is a chemical reaction video, so shut the fuck up and let me appreciate it. Thank you, have a nice day.

[@Jambivids]

+EJ Lee I agree

[@nakedzebra67]

damn dont know what this convo is about but english isnt your first language. I can see why someone might have thot you were Chinese...

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@@ejlee5603 I love u

[@stinkymeow2840]

@@nakedzebra67 uhhh they speak and write English perfectly fine, and it’s “thought” idiot

[@MrKago1]

I never get enough of that gorgeous blue you get from copper.

[@changedpace9169]

I work in an electroplating facility and get to strip copper parts in nitric acid most of my day, it gets mixed in with chrome fragments and creates a galaxy effect in the blue. Looks so gorgeous

[@marialiyubman]

“Hello, this is the Canadian government...”

[@jamesedwards7442]

lol

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😂😂

[@Juhuuu]

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[@alibahar244]

I’m sick right now but your videos are the only thing keeping me awake

[@successfulengineer]

Nice, clear video, thanks!

[@bpark10001]

After the first silver extraction, add salt or hydrochloric acid to precipitate AgCl. Filter. To the AgCl, add NaOH in crucible and fire. Then add carbon powder and fire again to get silver metal missed in the 1st extraction. Some borax will help coalesce the silver. Dump while molten as you did first and wash in water to dissolve the borax & salt.

[@torodelvin]

Great video, straight forward and descriptive.

[@crazymode341]

has it really been nearly 8 years now? your confidence has grown so much. you should do a first vs current video for comparison

[@mman6283]

This is the absolute best video on the topic

[@TS-wq6qb]

Thank you for being an awesome teacher!

[@bluewater7211]

I absolutely love the blue color copper makes .. 💙

[@sampsjt]

I've watched server videos on silver and gold recovery, yours were the easiest to understand and follow

[@JussiTuukkanen]

thank you, very interesting process

[@nomadsteve5297]

Very well explained, thanks

[@Chemistrytigers]

Very informative video

[@omart8073]

Very educational video. High school students should watch this for their chemistry class.

[@Bmens71]

Simple and straightforward

[@nt2974]

Great video. Can you make a video on how to make a Silver Plating Solution for immersion electroplating, deriving silver from coins and scrap silver? Perhaps you can do this with gold too?

[@truevegas]

Cool dude. Love your vids 👍🏻

[@ryansimpson3074]

Straight to the point

[@adriansvarela]

Such a great video thank you so much

[@shinnakrittangsiriwattanak9010]

Do you know that in Thai, the word for the colour "blue" is literally "silver liquid/water"...

[@thirdworldassassin]

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@@thirdworldassassin why did Harry Potter dog star Sirius black. Thx friend you answered many questions

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[@myhealthyadvice.2281]

Wow amazing knowledge sir thanks

[@jimcatanzaro7808]

Good job in the spring I will start slow like this and work my way up getting use to working with the chemicals and set up

[@HH-sv1tb]

First I will add 20 ml of water Me: ok maybe I can try. Then I will add 20ml of CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID Me: ok that idea was immediately shut down...

[@hexagonist23]

What? Nitric acid is easy to find.

[@IMONBLOGTVWITHMYFUCKINGHANDSUP]

500ml of concentrated nitric acid is only $40

[@Larry1302]

@@hexagonist23 in the EU you need a (hard to acquire) license for all concentrations above 3%, because nitric acid can be used to make explosives.

[@hexagonist23]

@@Larry1302 What? You don't need a certificate.. You can make it yourself.

[@buggsy5]

@@Larry1302 So can hydrogen peroxide, as well as other easy to obtain chemicals. Stupid bureaucrats.

[@saintlysadistic9934]

@nilered the link you found this reaction on is hilarious

[@XYLEAN594]

Nurple = NilePurple = ( NileRed + NileBlue ) Thank you for the tutorial Nurple

[@karlbe8414]

Great video, very clear and easy to follow. I just wish you would have started with keyboard mylars, switch contacts, etc.

[@ryansalladay9523]

I’ve got a photo showing essentially the same process and two different beakers with the same solution yielding two different results. Can I somehow show you and take a guess at what went right and what went wrong? Great video and great channel thanks for sharing with us!

[@RutgerHaan]

hi nile, wouldn't it be easier if you just electrolised the silvernitrate solution?

[@Creeact]

I own about 30 1967 canadian quarters and it is my favorite coin, hope to buy more soon.

[@chauntikleer]

One thing I distinctly remember from 7th grade (circa 1986) was this saying from my science teacher: "Do whatcha oughta, add acid to water." Diluton of acid is exothermic, and if you add water to acid it could erupt and splash you. And that, folks, is the entirety of what I remember from chemistry.

[@clmk0515]

Great video and so interesting. where can that acid be bought? I have many junk silver jewelry pieces... I'd have fun doing this !!!

[@knutewales1171]

Can you recommend a process like this for separating copper from the zinc in coins?

[@jamesyouldon6704]

That's pretty cool, TY

[@boss0killer]

Hello, i have got non pure "technical" silver, can i use this method ?

[@alibahar244]

Good job red

[@pablopicasso6699]

I agree with Peter, your videos are second to none. Their is a way to remove the Silver easily from a melting crucible. If you put quite a bit of ground Borax into the crucible and heat it till it goes like glass beforehand if you are quick and remove the Silver quickly it will be easily removed. However, this may leave a residue of glass like borax on the silver, but this is easily removed with a dilute liquid of sulfuric acid and water "jewellers pickle" (10/1). But if you are just doing a small amount, charred wood is good ;-)

[@smudgepost]

Love your videos.. need to see if you did one already for a process that limits the silver lost

[@buggsy5]

The loss was in his procedure, not the process. Also, the silver is not lost - it is in the waste solids/liquids that can be processed further.

[@adammcinnes5615]

I think that I have one of those quarters. I wondered why it didn't sound like a normal quarter when it was in amongst other change.

[@mrsparkle9048]

I know this is ages after the video was posted, but could you have increased your yield by letting the copper wire react with the solution in a flask with a stir rod to smash up the precipitated silver and remaining copper? Love your videos, just found this channel recently and I'm going through a bunch of your older material, still great stuff!

[@157dixon]

Yeah he said why he didnt get it all. He left nitric acid in the first solurtion. Meaning too much nitic and too little silver. Then he didnt leave the copper in long enough to precipitate all of the silver. You can save the solution nothing would be lost

[@LlamaKingGaming]

Oh man, that's a 1967 Canadian quarter. I need that one for my collection

[@delta_7737]

you should try to make a platinum gold alloy and test its heat resistance

[@nathanhopkins8324]

So the initial reaction with Nitric Acid produces silver nitrate? Then you could theoretically use a process like this to produce silver nitrate solution for tin type photography, for instance. You'd just need to remove the Copper Nitrate and any other byproducts.

[@EMandMORE]

Is it possible to just use the silver nitrate made during the first step of the procedure? Would it be good silver nitrate considering it's made using impure silver?

[@buggsy5]

The solution also contains copper nitrate, as well as trace amounts of other nitrates. If those impurities do not matter for your process, then you could use it. Or, you could precipitate the silver - nitrate it again - then precipitate a second time. This will produce almost pure silver.

[@jakemasters3208]

Would a better yield be made from smelting as a opposed to this method? Or could this method be refined to bring it to par?

[@drawincode1800]

Your A Wizard Harry

[@nunyabidniz2868]

Hello Mr. Red: I have a pile of phone cable (ie, tiny copper wires inside plastic inside more plastic.) Is there any way to extract the copper w/o turning the plastic into messy hazmat goo? Bigger wire I just strip the cabling off ["doing my knitting" while watching your vids] to retrieve the copper, but these wires are too small. Thanks!

[@tirionlanaster2626]

Could you reactive the left over nitro acid to reclaim more silver

[@christophermag9999]

Maybe using a base to neutralize the exces acid could help to increase the yield and reduce the time of forming solid silver

[@flyingtiger74590]

Would this solution work to field test ore samples for Silver tellurides?

[@trackpackgt877]

That was cool! Can u do a US coin next like a 50c peice or dollar coin? Pre 65 is silver. I know it's the same as what you just did but it would be cool to see

[@noecarrillo4391]

Excuse me I'm new on this so i have a question what is the difference between using the copper and using salt thank you and nice video 🤘🤘

[@thorium9190]

Are you able to take back the nitric oxide by putting the bottle in a bigger beaker with water? The gas would react with the water to produce more nitric acid. Right?

[@user-po8tw5ud7q]

How do you ensure nothing else is dissolved in the Nitric Acid solution? Coins and jewelry may have trace non silver metals.

[@mheryllemaec.aguinaldo3174]

Can you do this method in any kind of coin or silver plated materials?

[@pradeepchaudhary5996]

hey nilered how can i isolate tin fron lead solder? and how to check purity of obtained tin???

[@shaneschmidt4080]

I love this

[@milliondollarwhippet8515]

Good little video that

[@owensmith4077]

Hey how would I get the silver out of the waste from the gold extraction videos?

[@timber72]

Did you do a specific gravity test to determine it was .500, and not .800? They made both types in 1967.

[@mattlong8564]

I like that you chose the name Nile Red as the Nile and it's soil was a great source. Are you still making videos? Also is the gray silver powder shown in this video safe for consumption like colloidal silver? (And/or could it be safe to use on skin for wounds?) Also is organic silver extracted from plants a safer source, yet still as effective as colloidal silver?

[@buggsy5]

Colloidal silver is NOT safe, except in minute quantities. Plants will contain little, if any, silver. It would not be any safer than silver from any other source.

[@Jambivids]

why didnt you pour it into a beaker of water opposed to wood ? does it hold up better when its pored into a stronger insulator ?

[@LFTRnow]

I found another way to do this, though slower - use HCl mixed with H2O2. I used 35% H2O2 but it is not required, but the reaction runs faster. Note also H2O2 at high concentrations is dangerous, particularly to eyes - use caution. The end result was CuClx (and probably some ZnCl2) in solution (which you can later evaporate to capture) and a silver powder on the bottom of the beaker. I tested it on some 10% silver coins from Mexico to get this result.

[@Dmanthepowerful]

Old school Nile

[@muneebh243]

Watching old videos 😁

[@alexcoaym]

Will the social work for nickel and other things that they put inside usa silver dollars?

[@Voodoomaria]

I just collect old Canadian dimes and quarters. Lots of the early dates were pure sterling. ;)

[@joez9839]

Safety note. ALWAYS add the acid to the water. NEVER the other way around.

[@xuNsh1ne]

Safety note: It doesn't matter. Just don't add water to hygroscopic acids like sulfuric acid...

[@gittermnd8998]

How many grams was that and how many quarter would it take to make an once of silver??

[@hayderalkhafaji8408]

very good

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[@normsimpson2342]

pretty cool.

[@greenlawnfarm5827]

Hi. I want to make silver and i got tons of pennies and nickles but you need to tell me where to get a bucket of nitrous acid at. And does it cost alot? Does the hardware place have it?

[@tcolondovich2996]

My only reason for watching this video was to find out where you find silver coins in 2014...Since none of the current USA coins have any silver that I'm aware of. I guessed you'd use Nitric Acid before I even watched it. What type of coin is that? Is that currently used in 2020 in Canada or something? Thanks.

[@mheryllemaec.aguinaldo3174]

Why does the coin turn into black when i do the same method you did, i did your method pouring 20ml of nitric cid and 20ml of distilled water after it i cover the cylinder and after an hour it turns into black color insted of blue

[@kmflynn329]

Can you purchase the chemicals over the counter? How do you measure/estimate 1 troy ounce of product? How do you know the purity? Great video. Thats for sharing.

[@greenlawnfarm5827]

Yeah. I got tons of pennies and nickles and dimes and i just need to get some nitrous acid. Like a bucket of it would be good.

[@gustamaamanusa7971]

Hi, i have an issue to make a hot fire, hot enough so the silver powder will melt I use fire torch just like you, but the silver didn't melt Any tips ?? Thanks

[@osrra6101]

Hello thank u for these video but can u teach us the ways to test stones that contains metals like gold silver ect and thanks again

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[@javsokoli]

Hi, can use this method for silver plated mylar from keyboards?

[@ManMountainMetals]

nice wood pour.

[@sanjayjogdand9102]

I have got ics containing lot of silver ,which method i can use to recover that silver as it has magnetic (ms)legs or connecting pins.

[@howardharaway2259]

I do commercial HVAC and I have been saving compressor contactors . I think the contact points are silver. I have alot. Is it worth it ?

[@lknanml]

You had me at "severe excess" I get closer the screen and turn up the sound......

[@seachers6124]

Can you please show how to correctly extract platinum palladium and iridium from ore ??? I have tons of metal i cant sell because I don't know how to separate one from the other . Literally hundreds of pounds. Please help.

[@user-xl3tz8bg7y]

Can I do the same process to extract gold from circuit boards?