Where Does The Silver Come From For The Silver Cell

Eight Day Time Lapse Pure Silver Crystal Growth
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[@canonicaltom]

Love that you played guitar for us! These videos just get better and better.

[@Indebtwetrust535]

I've become an addict to this channel. It's a break from listening to the rest of the crap bombardment.

[@davelowe1977]

Me too.

[@WarkWarbly]

It is certainly relaxing : )

[@Madlintelf]

No enshitification on this channel for sure!

[@travisnichols2485]

Gold standard channel for sure

[@leoworrall9449]

Having been watching on and off for a few years it’s great to watch the techniques and skill improve over time. It’s the same video over and over but the process is constantly evolving and getting better. No many creators could pull this off but sreetips gets me every time

[@spokehedz]

"The Golden Toad" might be the name of my refining operation.

[@Aiasmor]

Wow, that music is very good! You have talent!

[@GreyHak]

8:39 Loved the music. Nice extra touch. Thank you.

[@husky500cr]

I have been watching your channel for years now and it never gets old or boring.

[@En-Pea-Sea]

Music during time-lapse? Nice touch!

[@TrumpedUp888]

You, sir, give a whole new meaning to "Liquidating Your Assets."😂 Great video!

[@bocamint4937]

I came across a a Chinese company that makes electrolytic Copper refining machines. The anodes are cast ingots, and the cathodes are Stainless Steel plates. In their literature they mention that the way they overcome passivation on the anodes is to periodically reverse the voltage for random amounts of time, and at random intervals. Apparently this breaks off the passive layer that accumulates. Nice trick.

[@Madlintelf]

Now you have been holding out on us, you are a talented musician as well, nice touch! It really worked out well, nice addition. Thanks again for everything you do!

[@rhetthagstrom5797]

Chemistry of this type fascinates me. Love these videos.

[@carlosalmeida4415]

All this and music too. Nice.

[@jasonbolduc5845]

What a fantastic explanation from start to finish! Loved it, thanks!

[@johnfarrow5873]

I screamed when that mold hit the water. I'm glad it's okay and you're okay

[@sreetips]

Gave me a little jolt as well

[@THR33STEP]

I would love to see you have a bar analyzed before and again after aqua regia to see how much of what gets filtered out. Might be a cool series for you in the future!

[@Antonowskyfly]

You are welcome. Spot on with the amphibian reference and RIGHT ON with a silky smooth and enjoyable musical insert. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Lovely to hear from you David🌷 Enjoy my friend

[@DavidDavis-fishing]

Gooood afternoon from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great afternoon!

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Heeeeello David..How are you today my friend. Here i Norway is freezing cold this day...brrr. God bless you David🔥 Arne

[@DavidDavis-fishing]

@@arnedalbakk6315 Hi Arne! So nice to hear from you! Everyone here is doing well. It's warm with a temp of 80°F. Stay warm my friend!

[@sreetips]

Goooood afternoon!

[@jmsparger4339]

Well I'll be.. streetips got some nice chops! 🎸🎸🎸

[@Hillbilly-Tech]

I really enjoyed seeing the 'Gold-Cell. Would you mind doing another one of those? Thanks!

[@sreetips]

Yes, I’ll do it. It’s easy and fun to do.

[@watchvideos9104]

Your music is solid gold❤

[@josephcormier5974]

Excellent video a quick refin and off to the big refinery thank you for a very enjoyable video six stars sir

[@booyalol]

Dang! Why is this channel my JAM Fr 💀💀💀💀💀

[@spiceolife]

I love the music, great touch.

[@johnmccormick650]

That’s some pretty cool guitar playing Sreetips, fancy holding out on us like that. Great video too, silver and gold rolled into one. 👍

[@jamescball55]

I always look forward to your vidoes!! Keep them coming as long as it is fun for you too.

[@EpsilonHunters]

Wow! loved the guitar, thanks!

[@skinnyswheelz5330]

I am glad the addition of the music was received well! Great video as always , Thanks for sharing!

[@robertmitchell7792]

Great explanation and clarification of the silver recovery process

[@markdaveculpa6364]

Never boring for me. This channel is my jam. I have been trying to study your methods professor and have bought already some the necessary equipments and jewelries to use. The chemicals not yet, but will get to that later. Need to save up more money.

[@jamesblenn5146]

I wasn't aware you played, very nice touch!👍

[@bfd1565]

You're an amazing educator Sreetips.

[@muskylemon2310]

If you used the water board to make smaller granules of the inquarted gold melt, wouldn't you likely need far less nitric to penetrate and break down the inquarted gold?

[@sreetips]

Possibly

[@richardtoney2441]

always great videos, best chemistry class, vert good guitar background.

[@kellysater3562]

I love your content man. I know it’s a precise process, but you succeed at n making it look simple. Thanks for sharing your hobby with us

[@junit483]

You better start including more guitar rifts

[@astralman863]

I didn't know you can play the guitar! Full of talents as usual!

[@jamisontaylor878]

Excellent video thank you 😊

[@richardbaham6813]

That's just lovely!!

[@richardbaham6813]

Great jib on the guitar 🎸 👏

[@JeffJeffers0n]

Interesting video, don't think I've seen you make a lesser quality gold bar to send to a refinary before. Nice tune also, had a bit of a Blind Melon vibe I thought, the never ending talents of Mr. Sree 👍

[@sreetips]

I have melted gold directly after the nitric boils in the past. It’s good enough like it is if it’s going to the big refiner. He will just throw it in with his next batch and re-refine it anyway.

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Yes sir🔥 A clip before sleeping time. Thank you so muth Mrs and Mr Sreetips. God bless you both🌷🌷🔥 Arne

[@isaacclark9825]

As a former Navy nuke guy and an engineer, when I see your silver cell videos I find myself considering how silver metal moves through the entire process. You start out with cemented silver and run it through the silver cell which of course requires silver nitrate electrolyte to operate. So part of the pure silver output gets diverted into making the necessary electrolyte. Finally, you have three output silver streams. Some impure silver remains in the silver basket, some silver remains in the electrolyte to be recovered as cement silver, and of course the purified silver crystal. Eventually, the former two streams are collected to be purified. Have you ever done estimates of the amounts that end up in each of the three output streams?

[@sreetips]

I have not. The only reason I do this is because the silver is a by-product of my gold refining. The sterling silver can be held as-is, no need to refine it. So long as you don’t try to melt it and ruin the markings.

[@isaacclark9825]

Sterling silver need not be refined, but isn't cemented silver the product of your gold refining? Or can you hold that as-is too?

[@sreetips]

The cement silver is not pure silver, but close. So its purity, and therefore its value, are questionable.

[@davehand8622]

Madness. It's just interesting chemistry. Helps that you see what's going on along the way. I definitely wasn't totally following where you got the blue silver cell liquid but now I do. You really have to wonder who and how people first came to discover these reactions.

[@kgpp2293]

The majestic golden toad 😂 lovin ya videos but theyre great and informative. Your methods make wanna pick up doing silver refining

[@Samsquash]

Yeah I’ve watched your videos on and off for at least a couple of years now, if not more, you’re a beautiful refiner. At the same time, the dragon in me, sees that sterling, and thinks to myself, why even melt down such a beautiful piece of metal when you could just lay in a bath of sterling, and low - mid karat stuff, as I also enjoy the gold 😅 again, your refining skills are always enjoyable and satisfying to watch, and I entirely understand refining this junk to something that could be used again. Not many people look at junk and see treasure

[@user-zq3ql5re9h]

Great video sreetips I've been watching your channel for about a year and never get bored watching your refining videos your a master of your game 😊

[@sreetips]

Thank you

[@timsmith9645]

Awesome video nice gold bar thanks for sharing sreetips

[@EchoJulez]

Wish I had your talent. I have some family gold I’d love refined down to a bar.

[@ut000bs]

I was just thinking the only video I ever remember of you pouring a bar after inquartation/before refining was when you sent some off to the refiner. I wondered if you were sending this one. It's still pretty as that girl down the street and hard to not look at her. 😉 Thank you, Sr. and BZ once again.

[@toyfreaks]

Yeah, second silver cell. Exciting news. Still keep thinking about the double stainless restaurant sink we tossed a couple years ago ;)

[@eacord6499]

Amazing work my friend

[@joewarrick6043]

Sreetips if KZbin isn't paying you for these videos they should be. This is one of the most useful educational channels on KZbin. Thank you so much for all this knowledge you're passing on

[@sreetips]

Thank you

[@ianprivitera9617]

Nice jammin dude!

[@debcamp2359]

Great video!

[@sixfigureskibum]

Working on my first cell so I don't have to guess how many 9s to mark my metal with and it's way simpler/more efficient than running both nitric pathways. Thank you sir . Starting with the $5 Thrift shop computer power source. Thank you again. I found my local ace do not carry the dacron pre filters but ugh.. I found them on Amazon . Besides the filter I need the fuse. As I'm about to ask how long it might run and why ypu eventually stepped up to dedicated unit when your video got to the part, your unit is burned out😂. For folks out there. My set up costs ..the acid is probably the biggest expense. Scrap silver is everywhere for cheap if ypu have time to look. But even counting the silver it's less than 200 usd if you are resourceful to set up

[@sixfigureskibum]

😂 it's pure gold. It's. 999 Oh maybe it's 995 Er um 992 Or maybe 990😂

[@sreetips]

Probably 992 to 995. Don’t take much to make the shine come off.

[@sixfigureskibum]

@@sreetips it's a classical walk back in real time and a reality check. I was rinsing a large batch of cement as your video played in background. It got clear then kept getting a green mud. Eventually I found several chunks of blue crust.. looking like I'm closer to coin silver than the sterling I started with and tap water in the mix 😂😂😂😂

[@BADHIGEEN]

This video has to be one of them top 10 satisfying videos🤩🤩

[@hotrod47944]

Have you ever considered instead of making a second silver cell, to just make the current one with a gigantic stainless steel bowl (2 gallon pot) and two impure silver anode baskets??? You can use the same power supply and just use two wires ??? I’ve seen it done and the results are the same except so much more silver crystal production in a much shorter period of time … just my two cents worth… regardless, I absolutely love the channel and you’re making me want to get into the refining biz !!! It will be a great retirement hobby for sure !!!

[@sreetips]

I bought a bigger stainless bowl to experiment with.

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Boring news on tv screen..crap and war.. its' what i mean..find some popcorn..a bag of chips..now is showtime..thank you Sreetips 😂🔥

[@drJonas-hg3fy]

Nice Sir. 👌

[@RaithUK]

That was a cool interesting video dude thank you.

[@kingjameson1318]

Love the music sir thank you for all you do for us!

[@LondonDoorman]

amazing video.... you really are a master...are there any toxic fumes from doing the silver cell?

[@sreetips]

Not if we get all the nitric out first

[@fappas2]

Mr. Sreetips, I was thinking, during the dilute nitric acid boils have you ever tried using wafer thin sheets of inquarted gold instead of the shot? I wonder if this would increase the surface area and hopefully make the process more efficient? You could pour thin bars of the inquarted gold then use a rolling mill to make thin sheets. I would love to see what would happen! Thanks for the great videos!

[@sreetips]

I tried it once. I spent a half an hour trying to roll an inquarted gold bar. Then I gave up and poured it into shot. Sounds like it would probably work. But it adds another step to an already lengthy process.

[@beauhodges7957]

2 things. 1. Looking like you're used dilute nitric flask is collecting a bit of gold. Before too long you can probably get a gram or two out of it. 2. Love the music. Another Sreetips hidden talent.

[@kriskemp4952]

Nice tunes

[@bradleytenderholt5135]

I wanna see the crystal of sliver. You way smarter then I ever thought of being. This video is way over my head.

[@SugarSandProspecting]

Thanks for this...was Missing my Sreetips Gold Refining presentation fix.😂 Btw....nice Tune 👍

[@arnedalbakk6315]

Sir...is it you on guitar?? Impressive...thank you. I now and then take my guitar...blues made in us sir🔥 The best intro ever my friend 🌺

[@sreetips]

Yes, I used to play in a band.

[@arnedalbakk6315]

@@sreetips ok 🌷...nice to hear Sreetips. Continue to present the clip whit your guitar sir... Excellent. God bless you Say hello to Mrs Sreetips 🌷🌷

[@spartin86]

You can play the guitar too, Senior. Hooya

[@micmike]

Great, could you explain the process of growing the silver crystals please?

[@sreetips]

Yes, I refine gold. I use sterling silver, that I buy at estate sales, to refine the scrap gold. I recover the silver from that, melt into shot, and run it through my silver cell. The cell converts the impure silver (about 980 parts per thousand silver) to high purity four nines fine (9999 parts per ten thousand) pure elemental silver metal. The impure silver is added to the anode basket. The anode basket is suspended in the silver nitrate electrolyte. I pass an electric current through the impure silver. The silver dissolves, passes through the Dacron filter, travels through the silver nitrate electrolyte, and deposits on the stainless steel bowl (the cathode). The bowl is connected to the negative pole of the power supply. The process only deposits pure silver on the cathode. So I’m refining the impure silver, into high purity silver. When it’s full, I harvest the pure silver crystal, put it away and forget about it. Then I repeat the whole thing again.

[@nunyabusiness9404]

Good tune

[@Kinesicz]

Have you ever ran into silver plated spoons that were stamped sterling?

[@sreetips]

Never

[@SpartanONegative]

Rule #1 refine your newly acquired gold right away. Thank you for sharing with us Sreetips 🤠 God Bless 🙏

[@MrLaharl]

Hello. Mr. Sreetips could you do a little experiment. I wonder what effect a magnet placed on the bowl will have on the formation of crystals.

[@Ellis157]

very nice addition to the video you play verry good

[@JacobCanote]

😂 nice one!

[@jonasgeez2140]

I want to make one of these so dang bad but i dont really have a place to set it up nor one of those power supplys or a good collection of silver to feed it.... Hopefully one day in the future I'll be able to make one

[@csp5272]

nice playing!!

[@MarkMarvin1983]

“Can’t you see? Can’t you see? What that woman has been doing to me.” I saw the “toad” in the melt dish you were talking about lol. How did you first start out doing this @sreetips? I’m curious because I’ve been searching for sterling silver sets and they are really expensive!! I have 3 or 4 bags of your silver cell crystals that I could use but barely any gold. I want to try this stuff out but I don’t have the money for all of the things you use. Like beakers and flasks or vacuum lines etc. Any suggestions?

[@sreetips]

Check you local craigslist. Glassware comes up from time to time. I’ve had folks tell me that the tune I was playing g sounds like “can’t find my way home” I buy sterling silver at local sales, never online.

[@ericbeeman8717]

Have u ever taken the gold field or plated stuff and melted it down into shot and then tried to do the recovery off that or is the other metal in it make it nor easy to do or something of tbat nature I'm just curious on that part

[@sreetips]

In order for electrolytic refining to be successful, the anode material must be relatively high purity.

[@ericbeeman8717]

Wonder how much it would produce if ya ran a taller bowl use a nice stew pot maybe I know they make a good stainless one I have one them ud just have to make a bigger basket ya hold the silver in and make it a hair longer maybe that way u could use the entire filter instead of cutting off half of it then u could make 2x as much silver

[@sreetips]

There’s a critical distance of 4 to 4.5 inches that must be maintained between the anode basket and the cathode. I did get a larger stainless bowl to experiment with.

[@ExtractingMetals]

I was shocked that you said you were sending that into the refiner. Even at its current purity you would get more for it selling it on EBay compared to a refiner. What % of spot does the big refiners give you? Is it better to take the lower refiner price compared to paying the eBay fee?

[@sreetips]

Yes 98%

[@thehaze1972]

Have you tried to use the silver shot to refine gold? It is basically sterling silver, if memory serves your have tried to use cement silver for gold refining ?

[@sreetips]

Using cement silver to inquart gold is not recommended because platinum group metals follow the silver and build up in it. This could cause problems in the silver cell.

[@thehaze1972]

Yeah, was thinking that could be a problem.

[@BullProspecting]

Today is my 1st day with trying to recover silver from my stock pot.. Hopefully I can get a decent amount... Great Video as always!🏆🏆🏆

[@sreetips]

I have two separate stock pots, one for gold refining waste solutions. And another separate stock pot for my silver waste solutions. I keep silver out of my gold refining waste, and gold refining waste out of my silver stock pot.

[@BullProspecting]

@@sreetips I tried to do that but most of my stuff is low grade computer parts.. I used my battery jumper on the cell. It looks like melted wax coming from the bottom of the dish.. Hopefully I get something. The big silver chunk i used was eatin up within 6 hours.

[@donaldhoot7741]

Silver comes from the dance and final collapse of neutron stars. Oh, and your wife buys it too. LOL Great video!

[@donaldhoot7741]

That's where gold comes from too so you/we owe quite a bit to neutron stars.

[@taunusrunner3767]

nice musik

[@shedlight369]

When you say, send into the "refinner", do you mean to sell it and get money back, or to have it refined and sent back to you at a higher purity?

[@sreetips]

I need some paper, so I can pay some bills, and buy more gold and silver. I sell to a big refiner. They pay 98%

[@petepeterson4540]

you have copper crystal forming next to the edge to the right it's blue

[@justsomeguy6474]

My answer would always be "magic" lol!

[@mattjackson7445]

Looking forward to the Sreetips-Music KZbin channel, coming soon 😉

[@adtheceo9788]

Hey Sreetips hope you and your wife doing well. My question is, is there any difference of growing silver christals in different temperatures? Not the surrounding temps in the room rather the temperature of the liquid in the bowl. I ask my self if you can hold the temperature at a specific level during the whole process, will it grow chrystals slower or faster? For an example - water at a temperature of 5°C can hold 12,8 mg / l oxygen. With the increasing temperature up to 25°C water holds only 8,3 mg / l oxygen. So maybe the liquefied silver needs to deliquefied faster cause of the changing liquid properties in correlation to the temperature. Love your videos. Have a good one and god bless you both. Greetings from Germany (Alex) 🙏

[@sreetips]

There are many variables that influence crystal growth. Temperature could be one of them. But I’ve never tried regulating the temp of the electrolyte.

[@LeonardGreenpaw]

you say the powder would have been 999 pure, why is the bar less pure now, was the process not as effective as you thought? That powder looks super fine, which metals could be hiding?

[@sreetips]

I said that it was close to three nines. There’s still traces of copper and silver in the gold. The only way to get it to high purity is to refine it with aqua regia.

[@Baumscheibenkunst]

Would it be possible to inquart using the cemented silver from the last gold refining and keep circling the same silver? I seem to remember you saying this impure silver is still more pure than Sterling.

[@sreetips]

Yes, but it’s not recommended. Gold contains platinum group metals, especially white gold. Using cement silver, over and over, would cause PGMs to build up in the cement silver because the PGMs tend to follow the silver. So that when you tried to run it through the silver cell, those PGMs (especially palladium) could get into the electrolyte and cause problems.

[@Baumscheibenkunst]

@@sreetips I see. Thanks for the information.

[@unarealtaragionevole]

Something I always wondered, is there a way to predict the purity of a refining? For example, you said this was probably like 3 "9s". Had you refined it again; I know it would have been a higher purity...but would it have been like 4 "9s" only? How many refinings does it usually take you to get to 5 "9s?"

[@apveening]

To get to 5 nines, you will have to do an electrolytic (gold) cell.

[@sreetips]

You can tell much about the purity of the gold by how it looks after pouring. This ingot was questionable, no telling what the purity is without xrf. It don’t take much to throw the purity off.

[@aliencirkus192]

Why are you sending it to a refiner now instead of doing it yourself? I’m guessing cost or time?

[@sreetips]

I need some paper to pay bills.

[@LSFprepper]

What do you use as an anode? Any specific metal type/thickness?

[@sreetips]

The anode stock is impure 98% cement silver that I melt into shot. The anode/electrode bar is copper wire cast into a 2.5 Troy ounce bar of pure silver.

[@becauseyoucan2171]

Would the .999 fine gold have microscopic holes throughout? Before melting?

[@sreetips]

Yes

[@TeslaFactory]

Would it be worth using magnetic stirring or air agitation to keep the electrokyte constantly stirred? Or are we not too worried about keeping the current high?

[@sreetips]

My goodness, I’ve trying to come up with a design for constant stirring in the silver cell. It never even occurred to me to use a magnetic stirrer

[@TeslaFactory]

@sreetips I'm not sure if the silver plating would interfere with the stir bar, but could be worth testing?

[@TeslaFactory]

@sreetips some sturdy circle of tape on the bottom should allow the stir bar to stir without any plated silver interfering with the stir bar?

[@Thisisnolongerajoke]

Im not a mad scientist . Im an angry scientist. 😂😂 also nice tunes

[@_smithcraft_]

9:45 the secret sauce! Sreetips just curious. Does it concern you any pouring nitric wearing nitrile gloves?

[@sreetips]

No

[@_smithcraft_]

@@sreetips gloves are definitely important. It's outside of what you normally film but it would be interesting to see the sreetips rundown on nitrile combustion.

[@sreetips]

Nitrile gloves will burst into flames (according to one video) with 95% fuming nitric acid. I use 70% nitric and nitrile gloves are completely safe.