Collecting the Elements: Episode 38; Just the tips... (Iridium)

[@Crodmog83]

I love your element display. That is just awesome

[@maskanatomica5241]

Love the videos. Keep it up and thanks🎉

[@Greg-tl8rj]

Love the collect the elements idea, can't wait to see more. Ty.

[@patrickguillory-yy2gu]

Iridium is more valuable than gold, it is an easy process……….You can find lots spark plugs.

[@cobrahatch]

Finding a place that deals fairly or handles it is the big...I deal in scrap and it's hard.they don't like doing the work. Proving it and they can't give u penny's on the dollar

[@ivanvazquez2052]

amazing sample of iridium

[@adrianvr2837]

Thanks man, I just bought 4 Iridium spark plugs from AliExpress and I didnt know how to extract the Iridium (I wanted to try its with Agua regia, but your método is much better).

[@DancingRain]

Much safer too. You can even use distilled vinegar as the electrolysis solution. That's what I would have used, but I was out of vinegar when I filmed this.

[@adrianvr2837]

Ok, thanks, thanks saber than sulfúrico acid

[@hossamslime9354]

Nice video

[@Itswat3vah]

Cool!

[@alibhatti8905]

Thaks

[@byrdbraininwithrobyn]

Very cool 😎

[@remogaggi82]

I believe it’s an iridium alloy not pure iridium. Denso mentions alloyed with rhodium on their website. But who knows what the actual composition is

[@jeffreygilmour5636]

Hi there! Is there a maximum/minimum ratio of distilled water to sulphuric acid?

[@DancingRain]

Technically, yes. In practice, just randomly adding a few milliliters of acid to a small dish of water puts you in the right range. If you don't need the nickel sulfate for anything, you're better off using "white vinegar" from the grocery store. It's safer, cheaper, and just as effective.

[@jeffreygilmour5636]

​@@DancingRain Thank you! I am a scrap metal collector by profession but I'm breaking into metal recovery via electrolysis and chemical reactions. Currently I am trying to clean copper of oxides in acetic acid (10%) with the intent to precipitate out the Cu by introducing Pb. Then taking the resulting Lead Acetate and infusing with carbon dioxide to create lead carbonate, which I'm going to dry and package for use as artisan pigment. Trying being the key word, ran into an issue with sulfide contamination on pennies, turn my lead black. That said! Can nickel sulfate be a particularly useful reagent or is it mostly just a waste byproduct?

[@SodiumInteresting]

How much did this weigh, I was looking the other day on onyxmet and Ir was €100/gram

[@DancingRain]

I honestly don't know. I didn't weigh the iridium bits before I sealed them in the ampoule. My guess is only a few tens of milligrams.

[@yaykruser]

its 150€ a gram , still cheaper to buy it pure than buying sparkys...

[@SodiumInteresting]

@@yaykruser I bought a little square of sheet iridium for about £40 about 2 weeks ago. Dissolved a few mg of it in molten alkali cyanide then somehow lost the rest of it 🤦‍♂️ I still got some alkali tetracyanoiridate out of it. I was told cyanide is the only thing that can disolve iridium It's very dark in colour considering the little amount that got dissolved. I was able to mostly separate by allowing the excess alkali cyanide to creep out of the beaker on its own over the last 2 weeks, it also formed a nice poly crystal the iridate being heavier remained in solution

[@yaykruser]

@@SodiumInteresting Well, dont worry, got my first 0.4g bead of Iridium on christmas, and lost it the same day, searched it for hours and never found it😂 Then bought 2 2g pieces , that was right after the price skyroketed and the seller didnt adjust the pirce yet. Used one to experiment on, turns out its not as brittle as people say it is, it bent quite a bit before breaking. Later tried to remelt it with a HHO burner but didnt succeed, sold them both for a small profit. Did you get yours from that british Ebay guy that sells them as 5x5 mm pieces and 2 bigger ones ? I thought about buying some for experiments(wanna find out if it reacts with the halogens) but its just too expensive on a per gram basis... As for chemistry, you should be abke to dissolve it in many liquid salts like your favourite Sodium chloride or Sodium peroxide. I think I read that they used Sodiumhydroxide plus Potassium nitrate somewhere to dissolve it.

[@SodiumInteresting]

@@yaykruser interesting about those other molten salts working as well, I got the information about cyanide from the poor mans chemist. guess I'll have to go to the ebay seller again, it was one of those 5mm² pieces. I should have a decent look for it first. If it didn't end up going down the plug hole it will be somewhere...

[@thatprogramer]

I've just started my collection however its not all that pure

[@ThopazProductions]

Try neodymium from magnets

[@ahmedffares2821]

How much iriduim in 100 spark plug

[@DancingRain]

That's a good question. I didn't weigh the iridium I recovered.

[@KB-ld7jw]

I have pounds of ruthenium iridium and don't know what to do with it.

[@yaykruser]

Idk, retire maybe?

[@samratkabiraj4002]

pls check the ir partical in gm counter...

[@ThopazProductions]

Episode 39: Nitrogen

[@patrickguillory-yy2gu]

Not all spark plugs have iridium tips.

[@DancingRain]

This is true. I researched these particular spark plugs and found out that they do have iridium tips, which is why I made a video with them.

[@BackYardScience2000]

Would you like a free sample of uranium metal?

[@BackYardScience2000]

I can also hook you up with many of the elements that are extremely hard or near impossible to make at home.

[@DancingRain]

That really tempts me. I've been trying to research the legality of owning uranium metal in the US, and just getting more confused the more I try to read. Also... how would you ship it?

[@yaykruser]

@@DancingRainlook at luicerita science, they sell it. As far as I know its legal, codyslad has like 20 pounds of it and the FBI didnt take it from him.

[@danilobelen1586]

How do I turn those small pieces into IrO2 powder?