if someone told me as a child that when I grew up I would spend hours watching videos of a guy refine precious metals I never would have believed them. Sreetips and the Hoof GP guy who trims cow hoves are my favorite channels to watch on youtube these days
@pennybridgefreeriders11 ай бұрын
Hahah iknows right, getting the goldfever by watching this homecook mad scientist 🤣🤣❤️
@wolflarson10011 ай бұрын
Yep!
@hannable387111 ай бұрын
I like watching them both as we'll.
@eacord649911 ай бұрын
You could be watching something worse. At least those 2 channels are educational and entertaining.
@PaulBrown-uj5le11 ай бұрын
Hoof gp.... is he the Irish or the Scottish guy?...
@tom23rd11 ай бұрын
It was incredible to see some of our questions demonstrated as a sorta "let's do it and see" experiment. Added a bunch of anticipation after the previous cliff hanger, and made for a special experience. I can't thank you enough for the creative treatment of these topics boss 😊
@johnmccormick65011 ай бұрын
Really enjoyed these last couple of videos. looking forward to the silver cell time-lapse. Thanks again Sreetips 👍
@elbybrook946611 ай бұрын
I knew it was still there. You can refine gold, you can melt gold, you can evaporate gold, but one thing you can't do is destroy gold. If you can destroy gold you can make gold.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
However, you can cause it to go up in smoke, literally. Beautiful purple smoke. While you cry over seeing your gold vaporize into thin air.
@tombrooks381211 ай бұрын
I really enjoy watching you work thru a problem, you dont let it get to you. Just figure out how to continue and get her done. thanks another great video✌️
@1911darkstar11 ай бұрын
Excellent series Sree. Have always wanted to see the H2SO4 reaction with lead. The crystal chloroauric was really interesting as well. You’ve been upping the game lately, switching up methods, adding some new production aspects. Well done.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Thank you
@JFEnterprize10 ай бұрын
@@sreetipsdo you have vids of how to reclaim metals from electronics? Is such possible for diy’rs? I see on eBay guys are selling brass lumps with metal in them. Would like to see a semi-pro reclamation of one of those if you havnt done one yet. My single and double displacement math isn’t sharp and not sure if Frey scientific still readily ships these chemicals to homes or else I’d possibly attempt so myself. 🎉❤
@adysmiff173111 ай бұрын
Good evening from Nottinghamshire UK. I hope everyone is happy and well.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Good evening
@saeedmahmodi445911 ай бұрын
I was really looking forward to this video
@jamescball5511 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed watching these two videos. This is what I call testing a positive control. The test being "Does sulfuric aclid really precipitate out lead contamination?" I think you answered this question. It would be nice, however, to get some elemental analysis of this sample of gold to verify you have not lead in it. You have a nice little chunk of gold that could be sent our for analysis.
@Jultsu11 ай бұрын
This! Bumping so sreetips would see it better
@mouserr11 ай бұрын
the peroxide mix was much better a choice than my suggestion but yeah the gold wouldnt be lost in the overcooking so i figured it was just a matter of rerefining ... and it was
@Michael-rg7mx11 ай бұрын
Arkansas's middle section is folded and fractured. As the Caribbean plate was forced into and under it water boiled up through the cracks. Every time i see you dissolving and percipitating minerals i think of home. Today i was looking at 2 billion year old sea bed that had mercury sulfide forced up a thousand feet above the sea level. I cant help but compare it to the vents at Yellowstone. Thanks for the videos.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Geology, mining, and refining are related.
@chemistryofquestionablequa625211 ай бұрын
That's really cool to know. We moved to North central Arkansas last year, the Heber Springs area where my wife's mom is from. What area were you seeing the sea bed in?
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
I’ve never seen that sea bad.
@Michael-rg7mx11 ай бұрын
@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 Northern Missouri was the South tip of rock in North America. The sea bed sloping away to the South. When small animals began they grew a huge coral reef where the sea was shallow with mud sloping deeper to where the gulf of Mexico is now. First Africa bumped into the East side so hard that it crushed the sea bed and folded it upward forming the Appalachian islands. It slid under the North American plate raising it upand folding where the Mississippi River now runs. Then South America came North. It smashed into the Caribbean and rode over it pushing it into North America and under it. Places where there were coral like Northern Arkansas and Florida had their reefs killed as they raised up out of the water but new coral grew in the warm shallow waters. In Arkansas it pushed up from Little Rock to Oklahoma a string of islands so fast that no coral grew. The Quachita Islands. The land fractured down like the Mississippi River did but this time East to West where the Arkansas River now runs.
@chemistryofquestionablequa625211 ай бұрын
@@Michael-rg7mx that's really cool to know, I'll have to se if I can find anyplace near me where some of that is visible.
@DavidDavis-fishing11 ай бұрын
Gooood afternoon from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great afternoon!
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Goooood afternoon!
@ronaldnixon306011 ай бұрын
Watching this is so relaxing keep up the good work ❤
@dko91611 ай бұрын
Wasnt worried a bit! Had the faith in knowing youd pull it back from the brink. The Mrs can relax now.. 😂 BTW, excellent shot of the gold flowing from the dish on the pour!
@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio11 ай бұрын
It's funny, you know, but every time I see the gold in the dish ready for melting, it always looks like you're about to feed the cat! 😂
@jimalcott76011 ай бұрын
I think it looks like my grand kids diaper….
@PaulBrown-uj5le11 ай бұрын
@@jimalcott760haha me too😊
@paulslund111 ай бұрын
If you look really carefully from about 17:00 onward it appears that there was a chunk of gold stuck to the outside of the crucible near the spout.. then when you poured it the heat melted it and it fell off when you set it back down.. at least that what it appears to be to me...
@SuperDavidEF10 ай бұрын
I just watched it again and you're right. The gold piece was already stuck to the outside of the dish.
@Mobile_Dom11 ай бұрын
this sketchy backyard chemistry is one of the reasons I love YT, this is the heart of YT for me. proper equipment? how about casserole dishes from the charity shop. official hoses? how about garden hose. proper sealed tubs? home depot anyone. i love this, and the fact it all works so bloody well, its amazing
@PetraKann11 ай бұрын
Standard lab equipment is being used here. The porcelain dishes are a precaution in case the liquid overflows during boiling or the beaker cracks and leaks which sometimes happens. He uses a fume cupboard. Very safe and professional set up at home
@nunyabisnass114111 ай бұрын
That's what I liked about chemplayer. Boiling MnO2 in KClO to make permanganate over a kitchen stove. Would never try that myself but it was interesting.
@PaulBrown-uj5le11 ай бұрын
I knew you'd have to use hydrochloric acid, what I didn't know was you'd have to add a little more h2o2 to get the more stubborn bits to re-dissolve, another fascinating video Kevin ty very much😊.
@sitnw8nw84011 ай бұрын
thank you sir, i enjoy watching your videos.
@SMOBY4411 ай бұрын
Wow! That double eye pour surface is awesome. Looks like the bar is looking back at you. And I think that little straggler was the final drop from the pour as you lifted up. Thanks for another great video! You covered a lot of ground with this one.
@davidburton34477 ай бұрын
Not a chemistry major, but it seems to me that when you heated the gold solution to dry, you just removed water out of the equation. everything else was still there. Personally I would have started with distilled water, added some heat, and see what happened. You essentially did that, though more expensively, with the hydrochloric acid {HCL + H2O) and Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2 + H2O) I observed that it was starting to dissolve in HCL, but looked like it ran out of water to suspend it (I know it is technically acid, but it's the water that is keeping it suspended) Then you added H2O2, and viola, it all started to go. My theory is that the H2O2 was giving off the extra hydrogen atom into the atmosphere leaving nothing but pure water behind. Which leads me back to my original thesis.The gold was already broken down and bound to the nitrogen, hydrogen, and chlorine. all of which are water soluble. No need to make another aqua regea (sp?) it's all there minus the water. Would be cool, now that you know you can recover if you could test my hypothesis with say a button's worth or just try it next accident. I'm pretty sure I'm right and it'll save you like $30 in chemicals next time.
@redbaronrefining532211 ай бұрын
Glad to see more boiling of the precipitated gold! Crazy how fast it’ll settle! After you perform an an HCL rinse, if you want to try something different to show the audience and clean the gold up a tiny bit more, rinse the hcl with distilled well, and then add some distilled water and about 15% sulphuric acid and then boil again. It will clump all your gold powder together into a nice ball you can pick up with your fingers and just set into the melt dish :)
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Good suggestion, I’ll give it a try.
@redbaronrefining532211 ай бұрын
@@sreetips awesome! I look forward to it!
@sreetips10 ай бұрын
Actually I’ve had this happen when I tried dissolving the gold in piranha solution a year or so back.
@Antonowskyfly11 ай бұрын
You’re welcome. Well within range of the estimated yield will get you well past the porch door. A possible solution could be to use an electrical outlet plug-in timer to run the hot plate, of course adding another moving part goes against the grain of simplifying and streamlining. I have to believe the main concern was the live wire and not the state of the product, not to mention your wellbeing…that’s love! Thank you Ma’am and Sir! 👍👍🤟
@empirefinds11 ай бұрын
Awesome conclusion fantastic recovery thank you streets
@JacobCanote11 ай бұрын
LOVE THIS! You are such a killer chemist.
@deplorable1-211 ай бұрын
Burnt your solution? Mr. White would not approve.
@Mark_4_Now11 ай бұрын
Since the Mrs was pissed about the burnt gold, i hope you played a trick on her and showed her the little piece of gold and said because of "your" daughter this was all of the gold you was able to recover...then show her the bar later after she chewed out the daughter(maybe even let the daughter in on the joke as well beforehand).
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Oh, I wish I’d have thought of that. That would have been a good gag. But I have pulled back from raising her stress level since we’ve entered our “golden years.”
@mcwolfbeast11 ай бұрын
Most likely what happened is that part of the chloroauric acid crystallized out, and part decomposed to elemental gold and chlorine. Rehydrating and re-dissolving the elemental gold with H2O2 was exactly the right approach :)
@scotthultin776911 ай бұрын
First 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 😊
@glOckcOma11 ай бұрын
Very happy to see you recover the gold with no losses. You never know, one of these accidents may lead to a discovery of quadrupling your yield of gold 😊
@Vile_Entity_354511 ай бұрын
Well unless he had a nuclear reactor to transmute the element of gold into lead then he was never going to lose anything. Elements do not disappear into thin air.
@scrapman50211 ай бұрын
He never loses gold, it just gets left behind in his filters, poured out in his rinse jars and spilled onto tables. Ne never loses it! He Just temporarily misplaces it!
@habracken800411 ай бұрын
I’m ready for a filter paper recovery/refining. I was telling someone earlier this week that I’m a sucker for anything you do involving fire. Lol. I’m a firebug.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Me too!
@DonnyHooterHoot11 ай бұрын
You re-dissolved it! I would have never guessed! ; ; Great video!
@sillybears467311 ай бұрын
Would be cool to see you use frozen msb in ice cubes cool off the solution aswell as precipitation out the gold
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
That would be a cool experiment.
@Heymrk11 ай бұрын
Good deal! I don't know a whole lot about gold refining, but know a bit about chemistry. I knew you'd be fine when I watched your video last night. It would be a pain in the butt to get it back and you'd probably lose a little to evaporation, but I knew you'd be able to recover it.
@adamandrews252811 ай бұрын
A piece of gold walked into a silver bar. "AU, get outta here!"
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Good one!
@HE-pu3nt2 ай бұрын
Good work Sreetips! You got the gold back. No microwave meatloaf for you tonight, no sir-ree. It's a steak dinner and a well deserved back rub.
@robertallison965311 ай бұрын
@8:33 NEVER use that ice tray for personal consumption, it has traces of harsh acids from your gloves all up in it!
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Correct. Good advice. I have a small refer used to make ice and keep certain chemicals cold. Dedicated and not used for foods.
@saeedmahmodi445911 ай бұрын
❤
@Mikkelltheimmortal11 ай бұрын
13:48 I can't believe how well that worked! 🤯 .
@guitargirlie8811 ай бұрын
I bet Mrs. Sreetips was happy! hahaha Ya'll are the cutest
@joek51111 ай бұрын
I stopped at 4:28. I As I said in the other video, you only need to rehydrate it. , and you would have percentage of metalic gold. That's what the yellow is. Like any other metalic solution if the concentration gets to high the metal will come back out as metal. Gold is no exception. As the solution begind to evaporate it must drop out some of the metal. You have some of the finnest gold known to man sitting in the bottom
@elipsorange11 ай бұрын
Does it seem like using Hydrogen Peroxide is better than using Nitric Acid? To me, it seems like it's cost effective rather than from a purity standpoint. Just wanted to hear your opinion about it
@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew173011 ай бұрын
i think it's easier and cheaper for the amateur/home chemist to produce their own nitric acid than it is for them to produce their own 29% hydrogen peroxide, if you're talking strictly in terms of purchasing chemicals then hydrogen peroxide is cheaper yeah
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
It’s cheaper and actually cleaner because no nitric present that must first be remove before precipitation. But it’s not as fast as nitric.
@Fourby11 ай бұрын
Would you say this is your biggest mistake to date? I often wondered if you’d ever lost gold down to knocking over a beaker or some other accident? A great set of videos, thanks for all you do.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
No, I broke beaker full of PGMs once during my stock pot one video series. I think it was part 8 of the 16 part series.
@jalalhamdan141511 ай бұрын
Thanks away this is very simple way to get the gold precipitation well
@stevelemley84465 ай бұрын
I think you can add aluminum and it turns red/ pink gold
@azafreak11 ай бұрын
Keeping a stash of dried chloroauric crystals is a nice stealthy method of storage. Great for when the G man comes knocking
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
The G man won’t know, unless you tell him.
@pauljoneseyboy961511 ай бұрын
I have to admit, I have been checking every hour for this update! I have been worried sick!
@NicholausFox-fo4xh5 ай бұрын
Could try ice with little to no gas in the precipitation process. Bartenders use it for presentation. It might keep the cloudiness in solution down while stirring in the sodium bisulfate. It’s just air but it could keep things cleaner looking. Also might be a good video just for experimenting.
Correct. She was happy when I put that bar in her hand.
@gyvren11 ай бұрын
You should rename this video: “When Precious Metal Refiners Get Bored.” Lol! 😉👍 I just love all of the different ways you find to get to the same result. Or sometimes BETTER results. Never stop doing what you do, Sreetips! 🙂
@ronnieboyd265610 ай бұрын
this video came up for me to watch but there was no sound but the first part was really cool but did not understand it to well would love for u to explain or do a video on it the next time you get pins Gold Recovery Using Salt | Recover Gold From Gold Plated Pins | Electrolysis Gold Recovery happy you was able to get your burnt gold back
@sreetips10 ай бұрын
I used salt and vinegar to remove gold foils from trimmed circuit card fingers about 8 or 9 years ago. Thank you.
@seanmiller67811 ай бұрын
Little known fact... can add Sulfuric acid to your urine to tell if u r being poisoned... white is lead sulfate... black is chromium sulfate... dont ask me how i know....❤
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Forensics
@robertsemple109211 ай бұрын
I thought he’d use the hydrochloric acid to rehydrate as he does when he boils down the solution to eliminate excess nitric. Then drip in some nitric to create aqua regia but I assume the peroxide is less reactive.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Peroxide ensures no nitroso compounds.
@shaneyork3009 ай бұрын
Another question if the answer is yes, then hopefully it'll be a challenge for a future video! Can you take the dehydrated gold & melt it to a bar? Maybe make a video using a small amount to show us. Reason I asked is it looked like dropped gold.
@sreetips9 ай бұрын
Too risky. In that state it could vaporize and cause losses.
@ricoviselli11 ай бұрын
a habit that I developed when cooking something that takes time is to set a time on my phone to remind me to go check the oven before caramelization becomes carbonization. interesting video tho,
@Projectoxcart11 ай бұрын
That will stop the Wife from Putting in the Dog House
@richardwarnock278911 ай бұрын
You got me at Frosting 🎂 !!!
@nonshock11 ай бұрын
I was wondering when you started to work on the dried gold was the dried gold heavy still, I don't know if someone else asked this but I really wanted to know and by the way I love your videos!
@PaulBrown-uj5le11 ай бұрын
Yes it would have been heavier.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Yes, the mass is still there
@JaySchmitty11 ай бұрын
Is it possible next time your melting your gold powder to show some half melted gold and some gold powder? I always wanted to see the contrast of gold mixed with gold powder. Always thought it would be a cool shot.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Will do.
@canonicaltom11 ай бұрын
Not sleeping on the couch tonight! :D
@TheRealGrinch31310 ай бұрын
$100, and 1.5 pounds of piniõn pine nuts to refine my gold filled stuff?! Have about 300 grams. 100 grams are a couple of watches that probably dont have much. But, the other 200 grams should have some gold in it. Getting ready to start thrifting season again.
@PaulSweitzerSCo11 ай бұрын
Awesome brother
@ArielleViking10 ай бұрын
Very interesting to see you recover that burned gold. 👍
@davidjavids243111 ай бұрын
AWESOME I WAS ANTICIPATING THIS. I'VE LEFT A AQUAREGA SITTING FOR FOUR YEARS DUE TO BOTCHED SURGERY AND VACCINE INJURY. WONDERING WHAT I WILL DO WITH IT.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Just re-dissolve, filter, precipitate and melt.
@mrimmortal157911 ай бұрын
Slip that bar under the door, Sreetips, and maybe Mrs Sreetips will let you back into the house! 😂
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
I put it in her hand. She was happy.
@ricknelson94711 ай бұрын
Nice recovery Sir. Looks like Mrs. Sreetips is going to let you sleep inside tonight. 😊
@b.c.935810 ай бұрын
Thanks for doing these experiments for our entertainment
@PaulAllee11 ай бұрын
I would be happy if it even registered on the karat scale. This is the only guy who can legitimately look at a gold bar and say it's not shiny enough!
@swoops21211 ай бұрын
Wonder what would have happened if you had gone straight to the melt dish vs rehydration and precipitation again 🤔
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Probably be like trying to melt silver chloride. I know sodium chloride (table salt) will go molten and not burn.
@ibocan112211 ай бұрын
yes sir i told you you have to make AR to recovery the burned Aucl2 AR best than hcl+h2o2 nice job
@ahmeda804211 ай бұрын
Have you considered applying ammonia rinsing and boiling to the precipitated gold powder as an additional procedure? This might ensure the removal of platinum group metals and copper. I believe this could enhance the purity, potentially yielding a lighter brown color rather than a dark caramel hue.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Ammonia is not necessary and adds another step to an already lengthy process.
@stephenveltman947411 ай бұрын
Mrs. Streetips came good then? not in the doghouse.
@davestark788011 ай бұрын
When you are melting in the dish, is that second torch map gas or oxyacetelyne? Super cool looking bar, youtube community standards prevent me from saying what I saw there, but definately a small bust bar.
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
Map gas
@MikeGervasi10 ай бұрын
I had no doubt you'd find a "solution" to fix it.
@anonymouschatlurker355611 ай бұрын
Is the frostiness on the bar from the torch over the mold? Have you ever tried turning that off just before the pour?
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
No, and no
@jph826611 ай бұрын
Glad that worked out. Not more than Mrs Streetips! 😂
@tristanquintus32008 ай бұрын
Nice recovery - all’s well that ends well.
@user-uj8gu1hs5g11 ай бұрын
I hadn't thought that some of the gold could have dropped during the evaporation. That's cool.
@terischannel11 ай бұрын
Well done as always.
@thegoodlookinorange198611 ай бұрын
CHIEF way to not give up. It’s definitely not cause the wife’s POed. Lol 👍❤️🤙
@terrencemarjoram987211 ай бұрын
Mrs's streetips will be happy...............
@GalenLeRaaz11 ай бұрын
now, i want to see pure Gold Chloride crystals that were created due to natural evaporation. also, a gold electrolitic cell experiment, perhaps? And thank You for the experiment with lead on the last video - my curiosity is satied, but new ideas arise XD
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
I just did the electrolytic gold cell a few months back. Used a titanium cathode. I’ll do another on evaporating to get those chloroauric acid crystals in a controlled evaporation. This one went too fast and got too hot.
@toomuchdebt566911 ай бұрын
It looks awesome everytime😃
@خداخدایی-خ5ح11 ай бұрын
Learn to extract gold from the stone, please.❤❤❤
@josephheffle60111 ай бұрын
Another gorgeous ingot of gold
@billasegan326111 ай бұрын
I HAD FAITH IN YOU. BACK IN THE BIG BED I GUESS.
@stevelemley84465 ай бұрын
Why not use a distiller to get the hcl back and stops bad fumes going everywhere
@GeneralSulla11 ай бұрын
Thanks to Sreetips, I put my name on every brick, fence and object on my five acres, including all my chickens, turkeys and cows, but not my wife! 😂
@DeadJDona11 ай бұрын
8:42 gold ice cubes!
@scottindestin429211 ай бұрын
Saved the marriage!!
@aga589711 ай бұрын
Was the Purple stuff on top of the crust some PGMs ? If so, you might have the beginnings of a thing right there !
@sreetips11 ай бұрын
I don’t think so. But there was some kind of contamination. SMB will bring down traces of PGMs with the gold, if present.
@TroubledOnePaydirt11 ай бұрын
Looks like cocoa crispies mixed with egg. Lol… ouch.
@FollowMe2aMillion11 ай бұрын
Really cool reaction! 5 Stars my friend.
@MadScientist26711 ай бұрын
Good deal man. Figured it would be pretty easy to revive. With gold being so limited by its reactivity,. There's not much option for what would be sitting in the beaker.
@TroubledOnePaydirt11 ай бұрын
That gold bar kinda looks like a cassette tape with those two little dimples on it.
@Hossak11 ай бұрын
Whooo boy - aqua regia and hydrogen peroxide! Turbo boost!!! Great work and video :)
@oculusangelicus897811 ай бұрын
You never burnt the solution. It was dark, yes, but burnt? No. but it went right back into solution and like I said before it could easily be a stealth way to store any gold you don't want people to steal, knowing that it will easily go back into solution and then can be precipitated out with some SMB. And you're absolutely right, it wouldn't be detected by metal detectors either, so you could lock it int with something else to make it even more hidden, say, with a bunch of iron oxide if it doesn't react, because they are almost the same color!
@MadScientist26711 ай бұрын
It had been changed by the heat. If it were simply dried out it would have all come back without the H2O2 or heat.
@MikrySoft11 ай бұрын
Chloroauric acid decomposes to gold (III) chloride (gold trichloride) at 120 degrees C, then to gold (I) chloride at 160*C and to metallic gold at 210*C. Both chloroauric acid and gold (III) chloride are water-soluble (350g/100ml and 68g/100ml respectively), gold (I) chloride is not water soluble to any meaningful degree.
@warrior4christ77710 ай бұрын
You should trade mark your gold bars...i could spot them anywhere
@TechneMoira10 ай бұрын
Nice recovery :) I bet that will put mss Sreetips at ease, since you got the situation under control. You seem to favour the nitric acid method to dissolve gold (in aqua regia) over the hydrogen peroxide method. Is there a specific reason for that?
@sreetips10 ай бұрын
No excess nitric to deal with
@paulknight187911 ай бұрын
That's the first time I've seen u drop a little bit from the pour, but am glad u got the gold back so a amazing job well done 👏.