How to Turn $50 into $500 using Chemistry?

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Buy platinum group metals. They're valuable because of their rarity and their use as catalysts in many chemical processes. They don't really get used up in the reactions and can be reverted to their metallic state.

[@sznikers]

@The European Bee you don't invest by buying it physically. You loose to much on taxes this way (think VAT, PIT vs CGT). You invest in stocks or commodity on financial markets.

[@LDam-pf6lx]

@@ccriztoff Because he makes the videos for Estonians first.

[@Markle2k]

@@poat3453 Recycling? Pt group metals? Sifting through street sweepings might pay off. Or just accept the end-of-life catalytic convertors as your stock for a few species.

[@themyceliumnetwork]

I am currently paying CAD $250.00 per troy ounce of 99.99 pure Palladium

[@themyceliumnetwork]

@@sznikers or get it out of the trash, refine it at home & tell the government nothing !! I am currently paying CAD $250.00 per troy ounce of 99.99 pure Palladium most of that cost is for chemicals to clean it up.

[@1337fraggzb00N]

It worked, my $50 gold is now worth $500. The only downside was, that the chemicals cost me $450.

[@rolandmine6693]

Lmao

[@matthewyabsley]

$550, you forgot to add sales tax. Lololol.

[@1337fraggzb00N]

@@matthewyabsley 😂

[@blackiscolor7732]

nitric and hydrochloric acid? they're both very cheap

[@thesoul2871]

​@@matthewyabsley & shipping

[@leothecrafter4808]

I think compounds for biology are still the king of expensive compounds, like some toxins, like a amanitin which can cost +100€ for 1mg. There are of course much more expensive compounds but even commonly used ones like probes and enzymes are super expensive per mg

[@zlm001]

Plus ordering radioactive molecules. I remember ordering radiolabeled drugs as marker substrates that were very expensive. I'd like to see a video on how they synthesize radiolabeled molecules with the radioactive atoms in specified positions. I have some idea, but haven't looked into it. I'd especially be interested in the logistics behind it as some can't be stored for a long time and there's low demand. Not really related, but I remember one professor ordering a $30,000 rat and also placing an order a new mass spectrometer and associated equipment that was just over a million at work, though I can't remember if that was for one or two. That one made me really appreciate that other labs at school let us use their equipment.

HP printer ink is also very expensive.

[@leothecrafter4808]

@ not as expensive as primary antibodies

[@YounesLayachi]

Copium

[@Teth47]

Particle physics definitely wins in most expensive materials. Anti-Hydrogen is $1 billion per mg.

[@Firstkub_]

Main problem for most of the people would be finding the place to sell such products. I admit that it can cost more than the original reactants but finding a buyer for me would be hell I guess

[@Sentient.A.I.]

Most of us just cooked up some in demand products instead of weird rare chemicals. But i guess there is a difference in risk with the hive method.

[@Youuuuuu]

@@Sentient.A.I. actual ai acomment?

[@JAKASHA420]

University science professors?

[@Firstkub_]

@@JAKASHA420 no but im a chemistry enjoyer

[@robbzooi]

also, the people buying such compounds are probably not interested in a couple of grams that some nerd made in his/her homelab

[@29Aios]

1:10 As I know the D₂H can also be separated from ordinary water by freezing it. Deuterium has a bit higher (~ +0.1C⁰) freeze temperature than H₂O

[@LuisAldamiz]

You cannot almost certainly control the freezing process to such a subtle degree, or rather decidegree to be precise. So I'd say it can't be done in real life.

[@koukouzee2923]

@@LuisAldamiz you dont need to freeze 100% of the water For example start with 100 liters and keep partially freezing it like 50 % each time After a couple cycles you will have a smaller amount enriched with D2O

[@koukouzee2923]

Or just use electrolysis or aluminium NaOH like cody did

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@koukouzee2923 - Is it actually done? You seem to be talking of an actual technique.

[@koukouzee2923]

@@LuisAldamiz I never seen it done (the freezing method) but theoretically it should work But the aluminum NaOH and electrolysis are legit I'm planning to do it one day it's in my projects list

[@alexbutler1944]

I could listen to this guy read the phone book and be entertained. The intonation of his accent is just great.

[@Lexor888]

It's quite the opposite for me, and the fact that either the video or the audio is lagging behind a significant amount of miliseconds makes it even more unbearable.

[@abx42]

I have most of those metals. I think it's time to diversify and see what lab equipment is needed (and cost). Thanks for the idea.

[@WouterVerbruggen]

Regarding the superconductor, it's much "worse" when you want to make usable "wires" from it to make magnets. You need the YBCO to be almost perfectly single-crystalline, which requires vacuum deposition techniques. The endproduct, a thin tape, costs in the order of 50 euro per meter these days (but quickly going down thanks to private fusion power companies like, Tokamak Energy, ordering thousands of kilometers of the stuff)

[@enamelbucket2081]

one of the many downsides of these process is that depending on the reagents used, you may not know the contaminants in them so it could add a significant ammount of impurities to your product that could havle a drastic effect on the price. one place might buy your 5 grams of Chloroauric acid for whatever ammount, but if its only like 95%-98% pure the place might not even want to buy it. from what ive gathered from metal refiners and chemists who do stuff like this, any significant ammount of impurities will tank your earnings, plus even if your product is pretty pure you still have to buy pure reagents, which are expensive, so this is really only viable if youre doing it in a large scale (50+ gram ammounts).

[@oscarbear7498]

That an excellent point, very true, the impurities tank the price

[@amicloud_yt]

Purity is always where the cost comes from. Anybody can stick a few chemicals together in a bowl and call it a finished product.

[@oscarbear7498]

@@amicloud_yt same can be said for females, it can look good but the value is in purity. If she has contaminants from the whole football team nobody wants it. Since it not up to standards for serious chemistry haha

[@amicloud_yt]

@@oscarbear7498 uhhh what a weird attitude. are men alright? ya'll fuckin crazy. glad i am a lesbian

[@Thatwitchchick]

@@oscarbear7498 dude wtf

[@Wineman3383]

Chemistry is such a beautiful science

[@shortaybrown]

Great video my Estonian friend! Keep up the great work !!

[@pol...]

I knew I was right about the accent!

[@BracaPhoto]

Speaking of Tritium -- they synthesized it in my home town 👍 Joint venture with DuPont at the Savanah River facility... Anyway yesterday i acquired the book "History of DuPont at the Savannah River Plant" It goes into a TON OF DETAIL about the original design of the HEAVY WATER extraction plant built here - Different iterations of the target and cladding designs... Even discusses how they changed the equipment around to start targeting Tritium for development of Hyperbaric bombs Tons of original photos also 👍👍

[@BracaPhoto]

In the GS system to acquire heavy water the Hydrogen Sulfide started forming a "condesate" with the DO .... Eventually the condesate displaced so much water that the whole interior of the tank collapsed 👍👍 They collectively "scratched their heads" 🤣

[@BracaPhoto]

Also for safety reason they installed a "neutron poison" tank.... The operator could pull a cable and release the poisson into the DO and stop the reaction... That was the 3rd protection... used if the gravity fed DO doesn't work for some reason

[@herrhaber9076]

While in Washington last time my relatives didnt understand why I wanted to go to the Dupont Museum... For them, I was going to see Lycra, Spandex and textiles. Ahhh the sadness I felt... I love industry / history books. That must be a great book to read :)

[@malcolmabram2957]

How is it made? I only thought it could be made by bombarding lithium with neutrons in a nuclear reactor.

[@BracaPhoto]

@@malcolmabram2957 you are correct - that's what they did except they never "produced electricity" with the "reactors" They just bombarded STUFF 👍👍💥💥

[@jimurrata6785]

We should look at the price of antimatter. It is VERY energetic when annihilating typical materials.

[@TasX]

And needs even more energy to make. The only way it’s synthesized is from the most powerful particle colliders in the world

[@LuisAldamiz]

But you cannot effectively make antimatter except in tiny amounts in particle accelerators, keeping it away from regular matter is also extremely tricky (vacuum and magnets are required), so all kinds of impractical. That's why antimatter is so extremely expensive, almost invaluable.

[@americansforhire5378]

Oh, you’ve been watching KZbin also. Good for you

[@l_unchtime]

Good luck ever producing - let alone capturing and storing antimatter lmao. Antihydrogen has been stored for less than 20 minutes at CERN in the past - one of the most capable facilities in the world for such a thing.

[@amedeeabreo7334]

Bob Lazar claims to have 228 grams of Element 115, which of course provides the anti-Gravity drive for the saucers at Area 51. He should be a very rich man, but says he misplaced the material somewhere along the way. lol

[@_Mr.Nobody_003]

Thats a good shirt And the reaction looks cool...pyrosynthesis...

[@lucky43113]

Tritium is most commonly used in gun sights

[@ConjoinerGlass]

I'm getting into this process in a way, I'm buying silver gold strontium copper and more to make glass colors for artists to use.

[@herrhaber9076]

Good list, I'll leave Os to others though :) We can make a few of these compounds but never expect to sell them at the same price as Merck, Fisher etc. Hobbyist cannot guarantee the purity / effectiveness of the compound / catalyst in the same way as those firms can. It's the same issue with silver refining. Who need Umicore to assay twice refined silver ? It's gonna be 99.99% with or without their stamp...

[@l_unchtime]

If you can prove the efficiency you can get a decent rate for sure. This can be as simply as logging the exact quantities of each metal and reagent used and compare that to the mass of the end result. Obviously the hobbyist will have more loss than an industrial setup -- but people like @sreetips can produce high purity chemical products. (He mostly does gold / silver extractions and purifications, but the purity is 99.99% -- so an experienced hobbyist could produce similar results with the same level of expertise.

[@herrhaber9076]

@@l_unchtime It doesnt matter ! One ounce of gold marked Umicore will always cost more than unmarked bullion no matter who refined it and how talented they are.

[@MicaelSG23]

The way he manipulates chemichal compounds makes him look like a modern day DaVinci. I love this channel!

[@edma06]

It’s just chemistry, but yeah it’s really cool

[@vincenzopanella2705]

@@edma06 Da Vinci hand't a great interest in compounds, but later in life when he worked for the military

[@kestans]

make car rims from nitinol. Hit a pothole - collect insurance money. heat up nitinol - rims return to original shape - repeat hitting potholes for infinite insurance payouts :)

[@jackuzi8252]

Remember to never drink heavy water--you'll get atomic ache. (From some 50's scifi novel I read, I don't remember which one)

[@monqidix4523]

Nile red drank some. Said it tasted sweet. IIRC

[@jonnda]

Fascinating. I'm surprised that these pure elements are cheaper than compounds that contain them.

[@axelpothier2957]

how often does a meal cost less than the ingredients used to make it?

[@davidarundel6187]

​@@axelpothier2957 when it's foraged .

[@claudineimendescosta6608]

Physicists observed a strange new type of behaviour in a magnetic material when it’s heated up. The magnetic spins ‘freeze’ into a static pattern when the temperature rises, a phenomenon that normally occurs when the temperature decreases discovered the phenomenon in the material neodymium

[@veersabharwal4164]

Sir/ma'am can you please link some article I want to learn more about it

[@Nadesican]

Now if only I could find a company willing to buy chemicals from a random unknown chemist

[@marcfruchtman9473]

Such an amazing video, so informative! Thank you.

[@gxlorp]

0:47 Fun fact. That heavy water is sold by Bob Lazar's company. The guy who used to work on government black budget anti-gravity tech in Nevada. He was on Joe Rogan in 2019

[@rishijha9960]

Old is gold we love you're old voice 👍🏻👍🏻

[@BillyBlaze7]

love that accent bro, no sarcasm, true talk

[@jeremycrochtiere6317]

Great Video highly informative and interesting

[@alfepalfe]

you can make silver more expensive by making it into silver halides and making film, then photographing something very rare with it so the photo becomes valuable.

[@jerichosamurai]

thank god for captions

[@lazarian4428]

Great vid! Good to see the kitty!

[@Luzeon]

Ima have to watch this video at least 100 more times! Thank you for this. 🥂

[@mmc9587]

Imagine discovering the process in which the creation of a super conductor material that forms the reactive properties without the use of liquid nitrogen

[@nickkhere8674]

Thata gave me an idea

[@johnykolk1414]

They are spending millions in that research.

[@radarodonnell]

Patent US 2019 /0058105 A

[@adrienw4704]

very interesting!! those reactions are beautyful! thanks for the show!

[@johnny_rain3226]

Finally a new video, I realy like your videos.

[@blackiscolor7732]

50$-500$ if you have the thousands of dollars in equipment and other chemicals necessary

[@jimparsons6803]

Yep. How about that? One of my Proffs in grad school had figured out a way to easily and relatively cheaply extract platinum from cars' catalytic converters. He had one or two US Patents relating to those chemical processes. Made a barrel or two of $ to go with his other chemical patents. Often, just flipping through a chemical catalog will get your attention. People will also pay well for a nearly pure sample of a chemical that can be gotten cheaply in its technical grade form. So you don't have to know or do exotic chemistry, exactly, just be willing to do long, drawn out purification. Either approach might make you some serious $.

[@Kricnit]

Oh yeah, I can see a government research facility purchasing chemicals I made in my basement. 🤣😂

[@Str4t0s]

there is a good tv show about using chemistry to make money, its called Breaking Bad

[@monarchatto6095]

And everytime a chemist has any remotely blue compound you guys flock to say Jesse we need to cook

[@kjnoah]

You can also turn stone and paint into art. Work makes matter more valuable.

[@StevenSchoolAlchemy]

brightly colored experiments look cool!

[@100Franky]

I appreciate u for speaking English for the English viewers

[@rbmwiv]

I have a diving watch with tritium tubes for illumination. I love it you can read it in any condition.

[@How_To_Drive_a_TARDIS]

I'm not trying to be rude but it seems like the audio is very off

[@winstonsmith478]

The problem would be selling the resulting extremely expensive compounds to those who would need them. "Joe's Chemistry Supplies" wouldn't be a trusted source. Want deuterium oxide as a novelty? Joe will sell you a bottle of water labeled as deuterium oxide for $1 per cc.

[@LiborTinka]

Exactly. This business is a gated garden of few big players. To enter such market you not only need a registered business in EU or USA, but also all the necessary compliances (GHS, OSHA, REACH...) and that is expensive as hell. I know two small chemical vendors who also stopped selling to individuals for the same reasons.

[@oscarbear7498]

Yep, you need to have a trusted name, A normal person can't join. Just look on line of all the sellers of compounds from China with terrible reviews. That's what Joe blow looks like to companies.

[@dangerszewski9816]

@@LiborTinka I'm reminded of Max Gergel's memoirs of the founding of Colombia Chemical and its early years-- back then you could actually have a small company making stuff in small batch. But typically you were going to be making the stuff that was a real pain or wasn't economical (or needed in big enough amounts) to be worth it for Dow or Midland or another massive company. Your biggest customer was the military and government then, during the cold war, when the navy had the kind of money to fly someone out to Colombia and try to talk them into pilot plant levels of production of difficult boranes that other people had turned their nose up at because they could afford to.

[@wtechboy18]

At 5:02 are those old long-arc xenon lamps that you've repurposed into fancy plasma tubes? That's awesome. I've got a (presumably functional) long-arc lamp sitting on my desk that I was planning on doing stupid Nd:YAG stuff with.

[@1ukjunglednbraver]

this will help me save a lot of money in a small business model maybe even sell the compound as an extra earner, so simple so elegant but i will stay clear of the osmium

[@l_unchtime]

This was super informative and cool!

[@galadriel4101]

Another great video. I learn so much from your channel.

[@otilium7503]

Always on top sir, thank you!

[@markgrayson7514]

10:35 Don't show this to NileRed.

[@explosivedude8295]

On my way to synthesis Nihonium and buy the earth

[@CH11LER.]

I have had one of them key chains for over 20 years. It still glows. I would love to know where the "15 year" half-life comes from. Unless mine is mixed with some other radioactive material 😟

[@ulfregens3570]

It doesn't stop glowing after 15 years. It's intensity will be reduced to half after 15 years.

[@tonyhoable]

Yeah its radioactive material. Dude says it in the video

[@johndemore6402]

so basically you just made money while making a KZbin video and didn't even need sponsorship or KZbin to do it dude you are a ROCK 🌟 STAR

[@LiborTinka]

he haven't made money unless he will be able to sell it - that's the big issue - to sell chemicals legally (at least in EU) you need to comply to several heavy regulations - such compliance is many times more expensive than that he can try eBay but good luck - no professional labs purchase items there - but you may be lucky with another amateur, hobbyist or a small company that stumbles upon you even if you offer it to Merck, they would buy it at lowest price possible and resell it with huge margin

[@johndemore6402]

@@LiborTinka this is why he will make money... and you won't you've already shut yourself down before you've started and who the hell says he has to sell it to any low ballers price if it's valuable and they want it they gots to pay.... nobody likes a negative Nancy or haters

[@tonyhoable]

Yeah thats why people put videos on youtube...to make money

[@johndemore6402]

@@tonyhoable not back when KZbin started

[@corneraction6765]

NileRed made YBCO as well and his trial and error process. This video is still better because it gives other alternatives into making money with it.

[@enderuslu725]

Nice that you show also TalTech :)

[@cindersofcreation]

I have no clue what this video is about (about to watch) but I really hope there's some great way of idk, chemically turning cheap materials into more useful chemical precursors and being able to legally sell those as an individual to say, a small research lab, or online. That's my kind of modern day real life video game skill farming for money

[@athmaid]

The problem is even small research labs probably won't buy it because potential impurities aren't worth the money saved. Testing for those impurities and optimising the synthesis costs money, so in the end you will probably be just as expensive if you wanna do it properly. For use in your hobby lab it's probably good enough though

[@malkomalkavian]

Always interesting:) thank you

[@mtnchild6]

*Walter White Noises* Edit: I know you dont make *Eh em* Rock Candy with metal

[@TUHANbukanorangARAB]

Superconductive ceramic is used for solid state BATTERY technology.

[@franknomustard]

Totally cool video! Smart!

[@dotchemistry999]

Love it 💙

[@ketas]

10:55 i was like wtf when that popped up because it's our tallinn technical university

[@experimental_chemistry]

I was happy to finally see more experimental chemistry 😉on this channel instead of just industry documentaries. However, the English pronunciation was sometimes easier to understand... Maybe switch to a natural-sounding computer voice? Or a voice actor? I know someone (not me...) who would certainly like to do that...

[@elitemana9401]

Best Science Video Ever!!!

[@johnhodgson4216]

Cool VIdeo, and the Cat is great.

[@mr.shellbrown7450]

OH i heard about this one! There is an entire tv show about it I think it is called "Bad Breaking" or something

[@zzScopoProductionszz]

Awesome video, looking forward to seeing what else you have on your channel!

[@viniciusschadeck4992]

i have trition aim sights to my hand gun, amazing stuff, i love to had it!

[@komet_13]

is a good idea to recycling the electronic waste. However you forgot to mention who is willing to buy your gold compounds 🥺😔.

[@bunzeebear2973]

It takes a lot of electronic waste to get any appreciable amount of gold from the ram chips. They do it in Africa with throwaway cell phones. They burn the phones in a fire and pick out the molten metals out of it to get a few cents...because that is all the buyer will pay...because it mixes easily with other metals and gets lost in the mix. Besides that burning the plastic is giving off a toxic smoke. It is a complex chemical process to get to pure gold. The ram chips are getting smaller so there is less gold in them so you need to burn thousands of phones. Hell, if I collect soda cans it will be faster to make money. & easier.

[@thatspookagain4030]

JESSE WE NEED TO COOK

[@joshuagodsoe3717]

love the shirt my man

[@andrewcosten]

Fantastic video

[@caseymcvay4727]

this makes me wish i could afford school to learn how to do this stuff. not just the money, but because it's cool af

[@veersabharwal4164]

Is school really that expensive in the us?? Its shocking because I live in a 3rd world country and there are many government funded institutions although we are required to clear competitive exams like jee advanced to enter.

[@caseymcvay4727]

@@veersabharwal4164 between $1000-$20,000 per semester depending on the school

[@Dynaboy1]

You can find many chemistry videos online on youtube that teach you the same thing.

[@tonyhoable]

You don't need school to learn

[@jimk8520]

If it’s so easy to increase the value of these precious metals so significantly, why aren’t you doing it?

[@LiborTinka]

Do you know any chemical vendor that is able to purchase from amateurs and sell to professional labs? I doubt. It's not like selling merch - the market is unfortunately heavily regulated and if you don't comply, you can be fined by some government institution. At least you risk it if your business grows enough to be visible to big players.

[@jimk8520]

@@LiborTinka that was and is exactly my point. It isn’t easy!

[@KiwiMC99]

Awesome, thanks.

[@mikefromspace]

Gold is grown from ferrite 1. John Milewski proved this. I perfected it.

[@joshuagauntlett8724]

nobody asked

[@TheBlackCatTrader]

Do you have a link in reference to your comment? I am interested.

[@Zeke-id2bo]

Yeah, but how do you sell the compounds?

[@eumarise8272]

Ferb, I know what we're doing today

[@barrywilliams991]

Dollar sign comes in front of the amount in almost all use cases in countries where it is used.

[@imir8atu321]

Informative TY

[@mikeconnery4652]

Great video

[@jawadmansoor6064]

Don't waste your time watching video. Summary is, you need to add $450 worth of effort to turn $50 into $500.

[@midbc1midbc199]

The companies that use superconductors such as this already have labs and make their own

[@oscarbear7498]

Yup

[@amarissimus29]

Not sure why my stocks of AuCl4 aren't being bid on. Could the major educational and pharma research labs have doubts about the purity of my product? Well screw those snobs. I clearly put a p-touch on the bottle that says reagent grade. Oh well. Love your videos, and I can forgive the clickbait titles; I know it's the only way to survive on here. Keep up the good work.

[@ThomasHamm360]

1:50 I like your plasma tube on wall behind you, where did you got from?

[@JankyBruv]

Gold star, good sir.

[@Wassermelonenbaum]

Did anyone else expect him to say "before talking to you about gold, I would like to talk to you about our sponsor!" ? x)

[@prophez23]

Kitty was not amused 😂😂

[@MaximusMuleti]

I wish they would have examined the cost and the value of chemistry like this one single video did. Explain that you can become filthy rich if you were to find a better way to come to these chemicals or even just doing the hard work and making them the old fashioned way. Even show some theoretical methods that haven't been achieved to give kids a goal to work towards. Kids need to see the value in science.

[@leandrogoethals6599]

pls do another videos like this!!!!!! Also how much D2O did u manage to produce? and t what energy cost?

[@The_Wendigo]

I just watched this entire thing like I was even going to understand 10% of it… how did I get here???

[@fredrickrari9338]

How about a video of weird, dangerous and interesting chemical reactions

[@SrAstro_]

why don't you record audio at real time?

[@gazmaticenterprise1646]

Because he's speaking Russian

[@ChronosCooper]

What a video. Thanks

[@ajsrc9399]

You sir, are a Richard Heart doppelganger.

[@Skylancer727]

That Cyberpunk shirt is really cool. That game may be broken as hell, but I love the style it has.

[@DAN8137]

15:52 cat

[@dig1035]

Thumbs up and subscribed!