How I use Muriatic Acid to clean rocks 🧙🏻‍♂️

In this video I soak geodes and lace agate druse quartz pieces I found in previous videos to remove the limestone and calcite revealing some surprising results. Check it out!

[@JoeLikesRocks]

I started pre-soaking my specimens in water for several hours before using any kind of acid. This allows the specimen to absorb water into any crevices, pores, etc before introducing the acid. It drastically reduces the amount of residual acid getting into those areas and this helps to prevent the yellow / green tinting. Hope that works for you as well. Thanks for the video.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Yeah I seem to have better luck when I remember lol to do that. Thanks for watching and the advice.

[@beverlymasonlpcpc4264]

Thanks for the info

[@TheAdventureCloset]

They are definitely some crazy geodes. 10:45 is so awesome. Missouri has some unique stuff for sure.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Dude so weird! The crystals are in solid limestone

[@gregderksen1996]

i’m always down for a little acid!😅.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Heck yeah man! 😆

[@outdooradventureswithfayde6832]

Killer pieces. They all turned out awesome. I am missing some nice rubber gloves. Definitely good stressing the baking soda. Cool video, Dustin. Thanks for sharing.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Thank you! I think I got the gloves at Lowes. And yeah the baking soda is key or you get weird yellow/green rocks.

[@stevewoods8116]

The very last one is really cool!!! Thanks for the video!!! ❤️😎

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Thanks Steve!

[@goodvideos.113]

Thank you for letting me watch and like the video.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Thank you I’m glad you enjoyed it

[@largent45]

I love it when we get to do acid! Lol! Its ao trippy! 😂 It can make all the difference in the world, if you have a the right kind of eick and the right type if build up rhat you are trying ro get through! But id your crystals are all calcite then you arent going to have any crystals left when you're done! Muriatic acid will dissolve calcite but not quartz. Quartz is much harder than calcite and the muriatic wont do anything to it. But the calcite, which tends to block the quartz and keep it from showing, will dissolve qnd leave the quartz intact! It will help get rust staining off of the quartz crystals too, and theave the crystals themselves, unharmed. Vur you must remember to neutralize the acid with baking soda and clean water, or rhe acid will dry onto the crystals and cause them to discolor. And can continue its acid effect on the softer rock. But it is safe uf tou rake safety precautions and use PPE and keep a large box of baking soda on hand whike using acid for neutralization. And only do it in a well ventilated area and use a respirator while using acid! Thanks Dustin! I love doing acid! Lol!

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Woo hoo!!! Yeah acid man!!! Those geodes always turn out so cool

[@heidibrodie7828]

How cool is that! Thank you, time to get some supplies.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

It’s super cool for dissolving limestone and calcite

[@ashallmon3248]

I like how they look, like brain coral. Great video 😘💚

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Thanks for supporting my alchemy! 🧙🏻‍♂️😘

[@JhonDiamond2021]

thank you for this good video, good sharing friend.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Thank you 😊

[@huntingrocks]

1. YES I LOVE THE HAT FOR SCIENCE!!! 2. Really good video and some amazing crystals on all of the finds , I do really like the one at 10:56 with the opening those are rather odd geodes with the way the form, they remined me of an air bubble that is traveling upwards at a fast enough rate to not form a round shape but you would think that if that was the case then once they stopped they would become more circular , my only thought would be that before they solidified in the mud they came under an immense amount of pressure .... but that's just a hypothesis

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Yeah I was really surprised by that one! I think they are fossil geodes. I think most of them were crinoid calyx’s originally but still have no idea why they’re forming open like that. The crystals are often in the limestone 🤷🏻‍♂️ there’s no space! I guess maybe it filled in later but yeah… I’m missing something. That one with the pink crystals was just that piece and it was in pieces in the host rock. It seems like they were formed normally something happened and many were broken and or partially dissolved and then they were buried as we find them now 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

I am told these do not meet the geologic criteria of a geode. I don't quite understand why. What I think has happened is as the limestone has decayed over the last 300+ million years there are spaces left from the destroyed limestone that have silica and calcite thus reforming to make quartz and calcite crystals to fill in the spaces that have eroded over that great time.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

They’re definitely geodes I’d say but yeah something happened. The crystals were right up against the limestone in several pieces 🤷🏻‍♂️ definitely an interesting mystery!

[@Whateverhasbeenmynameforyears]

@@dustinfindsrocks Geologically geodes have a crust. I agree in common vernacular they are but not the scientific definition. I think technically vugs or nodules.

[@FAMILYFUN-un1zm]

Nice video! I have a cluster of tiny crystals much smaller than what you have here. Should I only soak them for a few hours? I tried soaking smaller crystals last week; I left them in the acid for a few days and when I retrieved my specimen they were all gone.

[@abbskaya]

Was excited to see this video! Thank you! Have you tried baking soda bath 2 weeks after the original soak for the weird yellow color? I bathed some and didn't know the baking soda trick and have some wonky neon rocks.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

I think it will come off if you soak them in water with baking soda for a few days. The acid gets trapped inside the rock sometimes. The weird yellow color is NOT permanent. Glad you liked the video

[@abbskaya]

@@dustinfindsrocks that's great news for my rocks! Thx

[@manofcorn5930]

Does this method work on pretty much any rock besides Limestone? I have basalts and other rocks that have some dirt stains on them

[@evelynallmon1445]

A real scuzz-bucket!!!

[@dustinfindsrocks]

Oh yeah it’s always really nasty looking

[@evelynallmon1445]

@@dustinfindsrocks When Breanne was about 2 or 3, we had a friend who taught her to say scuzz bucket & had her calling her Dad that.

[@dustinfindsrocks]

@@evelynallmon1445 lol

[@elisaerhardt3965]

I think the Mur acid is to harsh- try iron off or citric acid it’s milder- but I also prefer to keep the calcite on.

[@laurafolsom2048]

❤

[@saxonmango]

Kevin Spacey lookalike - I suppose you get that a lot?

[@dustinfindsrocks]

😂 Nope you’re the first

[@carmenbonniciabstractartist]

Don't think I will ever use this method because I know everything that is from this earth is alive. I just couldn't do this to a beautiful crystal or stone. I think I would rather clean then naturally no matter how many weeks it took.