Silver Recovery from Compact Discs

Let's have a look if there is any silver in compact discs :)

[@QuadTubeChannel]

Best cd-burner ever. Compatible with all brands.

[@mattlucas992]

Ha, nice.

[@wissiwizard4536]

Wheyy

[@ChayBode]

My wife left me, but left behind her CD-R COLLECTION, guess I have found my SILVER LINING :)

[@lidiaspataru9713]

Chay. Bode.

[@Bioruss]

Same here lol

[@rickblaine7463]

🤣

[@ofthedifference]

Boris Petrov - thank you very much for filming this process and then uploading it to share with us all here on KZbin - it was very nice of you! I have literally hundreds of these discs stockpiled in storage because I have always suspected that they contained precious metals of some sort. Now I know what to do with them, thanks to you!

[@michaeltotman1411]

I worked for a CD manufacture they Vaporize Aluminium with High Voltage not Silver

[@musicianfriendly2005]

The French Horn solo when the music start

[@mikeguajardo1617]

Musician Friendly yes u can play my french horn

[@shdwbnndbyyt]

Some cd manufacturers use silver or even gold for their reflective coatings... but most use aluminum. Now CD-R and CD-RW disc do contain silver, gold and/or other rare metals....

[@gogosenpai3940]

I have more than 2000 CD and DVDs at home. Didn't know u could take out silver from them. Bravo.

[@adventurecapitalist5001]

Boris, thank you. You have given us in the United States and the entire world ideas about how to prosper. you are like the great scientists. ideas that you have are to be treasured and expanded upon. you have blessed us. May you be blessed.

[@adventurecapitalist5001]

J. C Wow. Hi. Its been a minute. Thank you for the comment. Be blessed. Be safe.

[@sino-centrism7013]

Lol.

[@allanfletcher7059]

Ah well, at least I enjoyed the Blue Danube.

[@borispetrov6575]

At last one person didn't ask me "what is that terrible music?"

[@allanfletcher7059]

Definitely my favourite - I love all the Strauss waltzes.

[@welshreaperscrapandcasting4029]

Love blue danube

[@TheMightyMormon]

I loved the video! Ive been wondering about how much silver you would get from a small amount of discs. I enjoyed watch the solution work. Love your humor! Excellent taste,my man. Not only in humor, but in music too. I'm scrolling through these comments and seeing all this hilarious and stupid comments. If you can't read the text fast enough, practice reading more. Perfect time to put text up by the way. If anything, I would say make it a little shorter. Of course the time and energy wasn't "worth" that .1 gram of silver, but it was worth all the fun that Boris probably had. You think this is too long? Go outside and watch the sunset for the whole day. Learn patience and appreciate the process that is undergoing. This video, much like most KZbin videos, was made for fun and the pleasure of the maker who wishes to share what they had with others and to remember what they did. If you didn't enjoy what they had, don't add some useless comment that says you didn't. It just proves youre an uncultured swine who would like to be negative and make the world a worse place. And don't watch the whole video if you don't like it. That's you deciding to waste your time.

[@ElbowMacaroniKP]

You could also use a 50% nitric acid solution (polycarbonate is pretty resistant to nitric acid at that concentration even heated so as to speed the reaction) which would yield silver nitrate and then you could recover the silver from the silver nitrate solution using some copper.

[@TheEScrapMan]

Keep in mind, these must say CD-R, not Just CD or CD-RW. DVDs will not work, as the other types other than CD-R contain Aluminum.

[@ofthedifference]

Actually, Mr. E-Scrap Man, my research says otherwise.

[@rohander7812]

all CDs are made of aluminum not silver. get a job buddy

[@TheEScrapMan]

Would you care to elablorate? I honestly would like to know what you have found out.

[@TheEScrapMan]

You are correct. However, the CD-Rs which you use in your computer do contain silver.

[@alanrpd]

The E- Scrap Man b

[@philrant2408]

About as exciting as watching paint dry!

[@E-BikingAdventures]

I stared at a pot of CDs for 8 minutes. 👍

[@ponchovanillabean8074]

Looks like a dime's worth of energy to get a nickel's worth of silver.

[@stancedtaco]

poncho vanillabean ya but your looking at it wrong. that pot could be full of cds, therefore itd be a dimes worth of energy to get 2 quarters worth of silver. see where im goin?

[@roywhipple7340]

Especially if you cut them all up into smaller pieces to fit in the pot better anf you did two to three loads off of you pot of lye ( caustic soda) 200 CDs for 1 g of silver 1000 CDs for an oz 16000 CDs for a.lb and people throw them away like nothing, could probably spend a week going door to door for old CDs and end up with 1000$ lye is like 4$ a lb already have a pot, oh what about one oof those big stew pots and 3 lbs of lye could get a couple thousand cut up CDs in one of those. What if you had kids and could send them out to do the slave work }:‑) at least then they paid for their own sneakers the b****ds, time too go Rob the neighbors.

[@TheConspirateWarrior]

@@roywhipple7340 Lol

[@isaackalashnikov3681]

You can always bypass your meter and get free electricity

[@ecv03]

Thank you for using proper music. I will have to try this sometime.

[@chrismihulka-nwfishingstuf3852]

There is no silver in a CD. The reflective surface is made when the CD is in a vacuum chamber next to a nickle disk that is blasted with argon gas. The molecules released from the nickle target adhere to the poly-carbonate of the disc, so the coating is nickle! Plus, the melted poly fumes will kill you!

[@paulsim8668]

Ahhh. You really had to kill the moment. Didn't you.......;-)

[@zachariahi.blessingabakun3898]

Its amazing, l can't wait to start right away. Oh my God, where have l been all this while not have gotten this important information?

[@celestialgardener70]

Everyone rips on you for the low extraction rate but the joke is on them, you got their views!

[@tessuzo2336]

What did you show? You did not mention anything.

[@jeremybaity7002]

I just hope that was a platinum album. :)

[@4someforlife]

At my old work we had a CD grinder. took about 4 seconds per disk.. I am sure some home mechanisms can be built and scrap 1000 disk in the time it took you to melt all the crap off of 20 disk. Just collect the powder remains and continue with your process. Your process seems a bit fun to try, but quite inefficient.

[@jaymemendonca6075]

Congratulations for your video, and for the refined musical taste

[@autumn2675]

I don’t care about the lower quality of editing, this is funny and cool. Plus, my sincere apologies, but I can’t not laugh at the potato crucible. I’ll have to try that some time

[@MsFiddle3]

LOVE THE WALTZ, Genius at work! Lv it!

[@johnnywyld2473]

So after watching the video I'm not really finding the information I was looking for, how many CDs to make a pound of silver?

[@DanKirchner5150]

around 500

[@WhatsNextAmy]

Not that someone is going to do this to 9000 CD's for around $15+ worth of silver, it is cool information to know if you find yourself in some type of Macgyver situation and you are in need of a little silver.

[@jonathanedwards9981]

EclecticCloset when would you need silver though? to make a bullet to kill a vampire ? 🤣

[@tonyheff]

Silver is for werewolves , lycanthropes. garlic, wood sun for vampires...

[@johnbell5240]

Blimey home chemistry love it

[@TedBronson1918]

I have a nice pile of old CD-R's Thanks for the video. I LIKE silver. Also, what about actual silver silverware ?

[@zanxmechanix8813]

Just need $1000 of lab equipment and about $200 in electricity to get it. But a very educational video, priceless

[@MrAllan9]

Trying to get the precious metals out of CD's and hard drive discs are like changing four quarters for a dollar, or even five quarters depending on your technique.

[@averryy]

Never throwing away my old discs away now

[@johnwish3601]

i never did

[@vipervidsgamingplus5723]

they would have to be CD-R drives because any other would be only aluminum

[@ต้าคนเดิม-อ7ณ]

รถแม็คโคร

[@janettavculek9308]

No conclusions given, just some nice music.

[@sam-ss6ss]

What are the chemicals you are using for this method. I want to do it at home to. Maybe you can send me more detailed instructions, with the all the processes that have chemicals added to or in any solution. I have literally thousands of CD's. thanks. Keep the video's coming. Good work

[@trexs1859]

how much bill cost on electric heater for half an hour dose it worth 😃

[@kulturfreund6631]

You’re rushing through the descriptions, but show the heating up of liquid at almost full length. Bit annoying.

[@timaddison307]

Ok if you can speed read but each step is slow like molasses . he will show you the dis for twenty minutes then the reading is like a quick flash

[@darrelldamon2745]

Like the choice of music

[@DonaldMelton]

The polycarbonate material and possible gold or silver in the reflective layer would make CD-Rs highly recyclable. However, the polycarbonate is of very little value and the quantity of precious metals is so small that it is not profitable to recover them.

[@aminmuhammad-dbf]

That is not silver but aluminum vaporized in high vaccum chamber.

[@lough-tek5516]

loved the choice of music, at times it seesm that you were in snyc with it.

[@luvadfishing2165]

Hello, I did not understand what solution you used in the stainless steel pot to put the CDs in? 😉

[@kingofthecatnap7923]

Well, this has been a lovely afternoon...

[@jasonsummit1885]

Only the most expensive cds were coated with silver, most of them now are aluminum, but what you have looks like aluminum. From my experience i would know, i work with silver most every day

[@kingbee5155]

This is exactly how I make lasermeth.

[@roywhipple7340]

So how many compact disc would it take to get a lb of silver? Considering how many people throw them away that 200$ a lb, also if you cut them all up into smaller pieces it would take less solution for more discs, sounds like you could make a handsome bid at an Enterprise for recycling people old CDs, time to go pester the neighbors for their old CDs:-)

[@prima808]

Literally watching water boil for the first 4 min!

[@captainnobody9892]

Fuck that was like watching an oak tree grow....

[@garygood6968]

Dude your funny as can be man. And very good find on the CD's. Was the green liquid the soda when you said you washed the stuff before you melted it? Just curious what caused the green color

[@borispetrov6575]

greenish color was caused by one more ingredient I added while making solvent. After all I realised that it was not needed so just caustic soda will do the job

[@garygood6968]

Thanks

[@nickolaskilligulas6564]

+Boris Petrov Good video, you Russians are so industrious.

[@ageditasauceda399]

gary good 😋

[@RustyNail5856]

nice video , but you did not say what kind of solution you use and how much you used to the amount of water? and what did you do with the polycarbonate and What is the value of polycarbonate ? is this Cody from Cody lab. ?

[@dragonfliiilopez3225]

I am really quite upset with myself right now. I just threw a stack of cds in the garbage can like a week ago...

[@ofthedifference]

+Dragonfliii Lopez - I love wasteful folks like you who throw useful stuff away - that's precisely how I've stockpiled hundreds of CDs - by retrieving them from the refuse that people have discarded!

[@jasonsummit1885]

Don't worry about that, silver has never been used on CDs it has always been aluminum. The crystal structure of the metal that he recovered is consistant with aluminum not silver

[@billybobb7252]

Bananas

[@ddragon8154]

+Howard Black I've never come across Lye myself - I assume we Brits must know it by another name - But looking at the spelling, there must be *lots* of it in our Parliament! ;-)

[@schumispecial1]

Thank you Boris for a great video. For (a few) others, are you sitting comfortably eating potato chips?

[@SpiritualWorshipers]

I can't believe your CD still making music in the pot...LOL (nice music background)

[@stevegood3621]

that scratchy noise is from a vinyl record not a CD know that sound any where lol

[@rocco74superhuman45]

Did you put the Borax inside in to the glass in the end? I did not see How you make this finish

[@vintagegirl3372]

Interesting video...never know what precious metals are in your home. Thanks

[@lordvillain3399]

What do you use for a base or “magic touch,” in the beginning?

[@markmacdoodle]

i love it when people ask what chemicals you used hahaha listen for once he tells you in the video he even tells you its other name sodium hydroxide

[@moking1761]

I just wonder what the value in silver is compared to the cost of fuel to heat the water. Regards MoK

[@borispetrov6575]

What is the value of polycarbonate? Even then it is recycled. Silver will just increase profit and the point I was making that there is some silver. Not too much but it's up to interested person to adjust a whole process to make it profitable

[@marksnowden6006]

I live in a sunny area and know how to position free craigslist mirrors to make free heat.

[@moniquehaynes232]

Boris Petrov

[@ofthedifference]

Mo King Surely you are joking, right? Besides, it's a question you are capable of figuring the answer to yourself - use the brain you were born with, Mo King! First off, the video was made by a gentleman who lives in Russia - and assuming you are in America, I'm surprised that it never occurred to you to realize that you can't expect someone who lives in another country to go to the trouble of: (first) doing research necessary to learn what the energy costs are in America, and (secondly) then correlate the costs of energy in America to the costs of energy in Russia, and (thirdly) then figure out how much energy he used to do the whole lot, to figure out the difference. You remind me of the guy further up who expects someone to translate this entire video into Spanish for him!! The nerve of both of you - are you related? People are getting so lazy they want everyone else to do all the work to give them their answers instead of exerting the effort themselves! Unbelievable! Not to mention your question should not have even been asked, because it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that at $18 per troy ounce for Silver, the heating cost would be negligible. If you're a youngster, forgive me - if you're an adult, figure it out yourself.

[@larrymathews4500]

Great video.

[@hasanfulu3169]

thanks a lot. I will follow it.

[@Ph0t0bug]

Wondering, prob already asked by someone, I have a bunch of the gold colored CD.... Could it be... Au?

[@borispetrov6575]

yes could be, but those discs are rare and expensive. Still, yes it could be

[@Ph0t0bug]

I have a bunch that were given to me... Wish I could send you a pic of them. Ok. I'll give it a try to process it as Au. Thanks

[@JohnDoe-gm5qr]

I have a few gold ones somewhere also. Most of mine are the silver ones. I wonder if the pressed ones like software and music come on are silver also because the ones seen in this video were recordable instead.

[@keisi1574]

Boris Petrov

[@alishajane7908]

Wilson Revelle Ag on the periodic table is silver..not Au

[@bernadinebaptiste6843]

that a lot of work awesome thank u sr

[@littlezgz]

So stainless steel is not the only thing that can withstand you solution glass beakers will also withstand it and instead of using wood stick you can use a glass rod

[@gm6719]

I love the waltz :)

[@paulchristenberry5140]

Nice video!! If anyone doesnt like it then why do they watch it??

[@stephennicol9549]

why do you spend so much time waiving the disc around in front of the camera? we get get it, it's a CD. And why is the video so long and drawn out? I had to do a lot of jumps with the arrow keys. XO

[@anthonypoole6901]

what amount did you get from those 21 discs. .. from.where im sitting it looked like around a 10th oz or so but I can't can't really tell..

[@sfbfriend]

Loved the Music..Strauss....

[@Schwarzgeist89]

I wish to do this friend...how do you make chemicals needed to dissolve the CD's?

[@slimshawtty4476]

What happens to all old recycled devices.... First off your device will be scrapped for all of its precious metals such as gold which enables electronics to work. Not to forget copper, and what these recycling companies don't want you to know is that they can melt these scraps of metals that are then sold for jewelry,or computer parts. Who knows if your purchasing that new microwave that might have a piece of gold that you already had.

[@jaxxbrat2634]

pot watching to the lovely music

[@ThomasJeffersonEdwardsIV]

Can this be done with email ?

[@danielhall6938]

Thats why Clinton had hers dissolved

[@vivimannequin]

I mean.....who doesn't?

[@amsmuh]

If you only heat up the cd for a few seconds and freeze after, to expand the polycarbonate more than metal layer to take off the metal layer? is possible?

[@borispetrov6575]

no way )

[@jojodavidson3044]

Boris Petrov

[@mikahandony7797]

yes

[@rainbowgemtestinglab766]

Are you used any chemical or just water to boil cds?

[@NeetchianQueen]

ROFL!!!! See now I know why I love potatoes!!

[@لقطاتإيمانية-س6ي]

Please What are the acids used in the separation of silver for the CD

[@attack125]

sooo. why didn't you just take the cd's out and peeled off the lacquer layer instead of letting it fully dissolve. i mean keep the solution as clean as possible right

[@charithgavin6230]

may i know pls wat re the chemicals used in it

[@senatorjosephmccarthy2720]

First it was a total waste of your time. Then it was a total waste of our time. At least i finally got to hear some intelligent music on a video. Thanks.

[@maxruan9361]

No silver AND YES ALUMINUM

[@nashdavis2316]

so any cd boiled in water will do?

[@DanKirchner5150]

cd-r only

[@anthonypoole6901]

Nash Davis cd-r

[@ScootersAdventure]

lol I surely enjoyed the music and had a good laugh thanks

[@richardb4787]

What if the CDs were burned? Set on fire?

[@pokedude104]

for the amount of silver you get, this is hardly worth the time and effort, although interesting. I don't think they make CD's with silver anymore though, If I can buy a pack of 10 for a dollar, its probably aluminum more commonly.

[@JohnDoe-gm5qr]

foiled again!!!

[@ofthedifference]

David Bretherick David! You are making that evaluation based on the notion that the person selling you the "pack of 10 for a dollar" actually knows the value of what they're selling you - many people don't. I have seen many items for sale online that are undervalued because people just aren't aware what they have - nor do they possess the inclination or the motivation to sensibly research it to learn. I'm just sayin.' As well, considering this gentleman recovered 1 Troy Ounce of silver off of just a handful of discs, that's mighty respectable .... as I write this on February 15th, 2017, the New York spot market price for silver is $17.99 per troy ounce, up .04 cents from yesterday; with an expectation to keep rising. I have hundreds of these discs stockpiled - for the precise reason of always suspecting they were coated with a precious metal. I actually thought it could be rhodium, considering how reflective they are; but silver is good. It'd be worth it to me to process 'em. There are many folks out there who would be grateful to get their hands on $17.99 by just exerting some time and effort. I guess it all depends on your personal financial situation, but I believe in supporting the recycling effort as well - it's better than putting more stuff in landfill.

[@loki6592]

OfTheDifference where did u see him getting an oz off this? He got 0.1 of a gram

[@davidsaltsman3943]

I'd rather same the time and just use them as target practice

[@tonymorgan1364]

cost more on gas or electric

[@ericsellers6901]

what is the solution made of

[@Ham549]

Couldn't you just put the disk in acetone?

[@freetolook3727]

You use that pot to make chili?

[@carlosmejia4046]

what do you do with all that chemical waste that's left after..

[@charleseichholz6703]

Carlos Mejia dump that shit down a drain lol

[@subhashchandmaurya2712]

brother there is no of CD are present which CD can be use

[@alexthethird1567]

За звуковое сопровождение лайк

[@meagain2222]

Are your sure that metal isn't aluminum?

[@viettienle4992]

Are those things dated back to the era of Soviet Union? They are so spooky

[@iamthemastermind]

What the hell buddy! Did you shoot this film in Chernobyl? Looks like a classic case of radiation on film.

[@borispetrov6575]

yup :)

[@damarpangestu8119]

tanks info what solution is used

[@allentuggle5320]

You show an empty pot setting there doing nothing for two minutes and copy is up for three tenths of a second. I'm out.

[@anthonyhro1903]

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT ALL ABOUT? THE HOT PLATE WAS WORTH MORE THEN THE SILVER THAT COME OFF THE DVD'S OR CD'S!

[@oba2448]

i want to know how to extract silver in compact discs