Hi Cody, here's my NASA gold and mercury story - My wife broke a thermometer on her gold wedding ring. Mercury completely coated the ring making it a shiny silver color. All the local jewelers I called were stymied, none had a clue how to remove it. I called the metal plating lab at my center (Goddard) and they said they would have a look. After much discussion and calculation, they reverse electroplated it, the mercury fell away, and the ring is fine. As a result, two NASA technical papers were published on the specific process citing my wife's ring as the test subject. Cool!
Dan... First, this is from 6 years ago. Second, the ring is from the 1750's and experienced men with PHD's in metallurgy and it's history determined heating to be an unviable solution. Mercury was in direct contact with the solder holding the crown and stone in place. I trust that wisdom, here's why. Simply heating to solder temps as you suggest would have likely destroyed the ring, jewelers silver solder of the 18th century did not have the same composition nor melting point as in modern times. Details matter.
There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was much faster than light. She went off one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.
thank you cody. as an adult male that still enjoys learning about science but um well, got drunk instead of going to school and getting good grades to continue in a science oriented direction. i have learned quite a bit from you. which is totally ironic in the fact that i am sitting here having a few beers and learning. very awesome man
Cody'sLab some dental amalgams can leave a silver streak when they are hard enough. Cody you could find an old dental materials book that has recipes for mercury amalgams and the properties you can get from mixing mercury with other metals. It was really studied back when mercury fillings where used.
You know, because chemistry is often such a big part of your videos, it would be cool if you did a series getting a little deeper into the chemistry. Like describing why molecules have certain properties, which elements are likely to replace each other in them, etc. I know a bit about this stuff, but it's been a long time since I learned it all and I'd really like to know more.
it's amazing to see you get on the trending list, I've been with you since 50k subscribers and first started watching you when I saw a recommend video in my feed and I said "huh looks interesting" that video was amazing and made me immediately subscribe
I just want to know one thing: who are those 181 who do not like this video or any of your videos in the first place? What are they here for precisely, to see what? I love your videos. Keep 'em coming.
Does anyone else realize he turned gold into a white powder seems very interesting to me how gold became a white powder like chalk has anyone heard of monoatomic gold spoken as about by David Hudson in his lectures
I've continually enjoyed your videos! Just keep yourself safe with any number of those fun solutions! I remember a time I accidentally got some developing agent onto my cloths, which was well known to cause cancer, but a SUPER big molecule, so less of a concern, so long as you don't ingest it. In any case, be safe and keep being cool!
There would be no difference because air pressure presses on all the surfaces equally. To measure the "weight" of air pressure you'd need to pull a vacuum on the bottom surface of the scale.
I'm not sure about it, but there should be a spot under the surface where air pressure pushing up will not change (Where the surface contacts the sensor) and this should make a difference between both areas resulting in a "lift effect".
Hi Cody, Awesome stuff! Though solubility in mixtures of metals or mixtures of salts is not really analogous to solubility in aqueous solutions. For example at sufficiently high temperatures gold and mercury would behave like miscible fluids, and when lowering the temperature, the precipitate that forms would be an alloy of gold and mercury, not pure gold. Check out metal phase diagrams to see the steady-states for these dissolving processes in terms of temperature and composition. It seems likely that you have made a semisolid phase, and that the solid portion you removed was not gold but the solid portion of the semisolid melt, which is a specific phase of gold and mercury. The liquid portions were so similar in density and had so little gold because even with zinc in one mixture, the eutectic point for mercury plus basically any metal with a high melting point will be almost pure mercury. The solid phase that was removed probably has the higher density and 'solubility' you were looking for. Let me know if you have any metallurgical questions and keep up the good work.
I'll give two explanations they are equivalent but use different methods to describe it Exp 1 Because displace the water with the mercury creates a buoyancy force upwards on the mercury relative to the amount of water displaced, this reaction to this force (newton's 3rd law) pushes down onto the water and scale increasing the mass shown on the scale Exp 2 The displacement causes the water level to rise so the pressure at the bottom of the beaker increases (as Pressure=densityX9.81Xheight) as force= pressureXarea the force on the beaker and scales increases, showing an increase in mass on the scale Let me know if you don't understand what I said and I'll try explaining it again
I love your channel and experiments but most of all i'm absolutely impressed with your knowledge and the ease at which you operate while carrying out experiments.
A problem I see with the density as a measure for how much metal dissolved, is that is assumes the density of the amalgam is directly proportional to the ratios of metals. At least for other alloys, that's not the case. Some alloys have properties that are not in between the metals they're made of. Like bronze being harder than copper and tin, for instance, not something in between. The same should apply to density, as the atoms of a metal are progressively being introduced in the latices of the other metal. Nothing warrants the alloy density will progress linearly from one of the metals density value to the other's. Also note that not only mercury dissolves gold, also gold absorbs mercury, which alters its properties a lot. So you probably want to extract the mercury from that gold bar before you use it for something. Gold gets easily contaminated by both mercury and lead, making it a lot less malleable among other effects.
From your experiments, I think you've made the assumption that dissolving gold in mercury will not change the volume of liquid, therefore you can find solubility by looking at a density change. Is this necessarily true -- does dissolving X mg of gold in (say) 10ml of mercury still result in just 10ml of solution?
Your are right the volume will increase but only proportionally to the mass of gold dissolved in the mercury. The density is always just the ratio of the mass and volume and as the mass increases faster than the volume, the density is increasing.
Hello, i am from Germany, so please excuse my bad english. I love your videos. But one Tip from me: If you use a Syringe to filter the Mercury, you have to be very carefull when pressing the piston really hard(because you have a very viscous liquid, or many fine particles etc.). Because if you press too hard, the liquid can flow between the piston and wall of the syringe and fly towards your body. That happened to me before but not with hazardous liquids. The Syringe you used is, in my oppinion, better than the oney without a pice of rubber at the end of the piston but it still can happen.
Cody wakes up in the middle of the night to drink something. Stumble across a bottle filled with liquid, presumes it's water. Drinks it, tastes sweet he says. Goes back to sleep. Wakes up like a mad man going insane!!!!!
My guess is that it isn't possible in the conditions Cody has available. What I mean is that in order for that to work, the Coke and mentos set up would have to reach vacuum first. This takes a while. And while doing so, all the carbon dioxide in the coke could've boiled off. However, if he does manage it, it's gonna be great cause the air will expand more creating more fizz. Either that or it'll pop quicker and not much foam will come out.
Cody bro... would really like to offer an idea for ya, i haven't seen anything SPECIFIC on the matter, but i would truly love to give you the suggestion, you're the BEST!!! sugg: How to dissolve (remove) ALL organics from a circuit board using household or easily acquired chemicals (so nothing but metal is left and how to refine EACH metal out) would LOVE to see that on your channel bro!! Stay Awesome!!
At 20c water is 0.998g/cm³, and data table I have shows mercury at 13.546g/cm³ at same temp, so, some maybe a third of the discrepancy could be chalked up to that, but maybe a more precise weighing rig is in order. After I saw your video about it, I used this method to get density of a supposedly nickel crucible. I was able to get precision of +/- 5/10,000, and results very closely matched published value for Ni. Thanks by the way, I tried before to use displacement like I remembered from school, (measuring overflow water) - not very precise...
1kg of water = 1 Liter , the bottle cap is suspended from above with a wire, while plunged it supports the weight of the water directly above it, by pouring the mercury inside of it, you're displacing it's exact volume in water out of the cup, that water will weigh on the scale instead of the cup, you take the difference in grams and convert it to volume :D
I believe some ancient alchemy texts say that bismuth and gold will dissolve more because the gold and bismuth will form Au2Bi a compound. That will likely double the amount of gold you can dissolve. Then you can add that to antimony bronze and then after driving off the mercury a nice alloy will result.
Thanks Cody! This is the first you tube channel I m subscribing... brave guy you are! Previously I have worked on mercury... prepared Mercury sulfide (Black one)... during which I have gone through headache, Throat & eyes irritation and mouth sore... Even after precaution ???
So, a question I hope Cody will have time to answer: let’s say I had 10 kilos of gold and wanted to transport across the country (moving)...and wanted to put it in a form that anyone trying to steal something would overlook it. This sure looks like an answer. A big plastic tub of these “chalks” labeled lime pellets or something. Other ideas?
Alan, another idea: Don't try to scam the brothers. You only end up to the river, and your last tought would be why didn't graduate instead to be fool opportunist!
Mercury is the method of choice for artisanal gold extraction in South America(eg Venezuela), so one ounce of artisanal gold corresponds to how many ounces of mercury used in the extraction process and then boiled off?
Mercury does not dissolve gold that quickly the amalgamation process slows down alot towards the end of the process ive had a gram of gold dissolving in mercury for close to five months and its still amalgamating for you to do it in under 5 hours just seems incredibly absurd your video inspired me to do this and now i feel like ive been mis informed
Pretty much nothing, he recovered all the gold and mercury at the end, only the nitric acid and zinc were wasted. (The gold was expensive, but has been used several times and can easily be resold.)
Hey Cody. Was watching your old videos about breaking gallium. Could the reason why gallium breaks with very abrupt bending because of the heat that is produced due to friction in the metal melts the metal at the bending point?
That density measurement technique totally blew my mind. I thought this should not be possible at all. This really got me wondering what other things I assume to be impossible which actually are quite easy to do... One thing though: Could you add an annotation to the video, linking to the video explaining the method? This should be more convenient for other people who do not know the technique yet :)
He's dealt with micrograms before; if he were to take a standard blood donation volume, boil that down and extract he'd certainly have *something* if only a few grains of the metal.
In the Sprengal vac pump video, at the end where the mercury is sitting at two different heights and you warn not to stick your fingers in as you got a shock is that measurable on a DVM ? ? ? 🤔
I have a question plz ? How can the liquid mercury color change from silver to red ? Is there any special element to add it to mercury to become red? And thank you in advance .
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would you think dissolving gold into Mercury would reduce the solutions vapor pressure to less than pure Mercury? it could prove itself quite useful for the sprengel pump
Love your vids never subscribed because they were on my homepage, youtube should fix this honestly you'd have more subscribers when they stopped showing up however had to look you up noice vids keep up the work man
I was soldering a copper pipe in my son's bathroom and dropped some solder on his 14k gold necklace. Please tell me there is a way to remove the solder?
+Cody'sLab How do You "treat" the paper and cotton that You have used as filtration and tor other things? Maybe that's worth another video, or have You have already done that ?? Best regards.
How heavy is that nitric acid mercury solution? And how heavy could it get? It seems kind of fascinating to have a clear or at transparent liquid a much higher weight than water.
Could you grow a large gold crystal continually dissolving gold into mercury, and mercury into the acid, and how long would i take to grow something like that?
i think the reason for the number slightly bigger is the wire you used to hang the cap is quite large and its volume is considerable to the measurement. maybe thinner wire like fishing cord will yield more accurate result
Hi Cody, here's my NASA gold and mercury story - My wife broke a thermometer on her gold wedding ring. Mercury completely coated the ring making it a shiny silver color. All the local jewelers I called were stymied, none had a clue how to remove it. I called the metal plating lab at my center (Goddard) and they said they would have a look. After much discussion and calculation, they reverse electroplated it, the mercury fell away, and the ring is fine. As a result, two NASA technical papers were published on the specific process citing my wife's ring as the test subject. Cool!
Simply heating to solder temps vaporizes the mercury, use a powerful exhaust fan or a respirator.
Dan... First, this is from 6 years ago. Second, the ring is from the 1750's and experienced men with PHD's in metallurgy and it's history determined heating to be an unviable solution. Mercury was in direct contact with the solder holding the crown and stone in place. I trust that wisdom, here's why. Simply heating to solder temps as you suggest would have likely destroyed the ring, jewelers silver solder of the 18th century did not have the same composition nor melting point as in modern times. Details matter.
Never considered the jewelry aspect, very little heat is required to remove mercury from placer gold old time tailings.@@birdseyeview1543
@@danhelwig Another FANTASTIC example of how USELESS NASA, AND ITS STYMIED EMPLOYEES REALLY ARE. 😂😂😂😂
Are you saying NASA scientists took time away from their jobs to fix your wife's ring..? Either it's a lie, or who the crap are you?
My friend told me that he made Lithium react with Argon.
LiAr!
xD
He would be lying. LiAr is not stable at normal pressures, it needs to be under 1.624e+7 psi. That's 16 million psi.
Dan Bodine what a great way too remove the fun from a joke.
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There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She went off one day
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.
Mitchell Maytorena nice
Mitchell Maytorena 👍
There was a young lady named Cass,
Who wished for a decrease in mass,
She said 'What I need,
Is a negative speed!'
But she's now a tachyon, alas.
A shame Brady and Grey didn't show this one.
ahaha, physicist limericks!
thank you cody. as an adult male that still enjoys learning about science but um well, got drunk instead of going to school and getting good grades to continue in a science oriented direction. i have learned quite a bit from you. which is totally ironic in the fact that i am sitting here having a few beers and learning. very awesome man
You’re here now and that’s all that matters :)
Cody, stop using your great grandmother's decorative plates for science.
ngharo lol
He bought them from a thrift shop, as you can see in his refinement series. just saying haha
Hahaha
Lmao
@Cinder Fall 4 years ago they are using lol rather than lmao and lmfao
it looks like chalk, it feels like chalk, but does it write like chalk?
Didn't even occur to me, I guess it would though perhaps leave a silver streak of mercury gold amalgam.
Cody'sLab rich people just got a new thing to waste money on :P
Cody'sLab some dental amalgams can leave a silver streak when they are hard enough. Cody you could find an old dental materials book that has recipes for mercury amalgams and the properties you can get from mixing mercury with other metals. It was really studied back when mercury fillings where used.
It should do, if it's solid enough not to crack. I've used literal lead pencils more than once, they're fun to make.
You have to show us!
You know, because chemistry is often such a big part of your videos, it would be cool if you did a series getting a little deeper into the chemistry. Like describing why molecules have certain properties, which elements are likely to replace each other in them, etc.
I know a bit about this stuff, but it's been a long time since I learned it all and I'd really like to know more.
For some reason I understand you better than my chemistry teacher
Who else learns more from Cody than their science teacher 😂
frog I do
who has a science teacher?
992.642 persons =) me included
I think you should watch a channel that teaches English too. ;)
You obviously don't learn anything from your English teacher
it's amazing to see you get on the trending list, I've been with you since 50k subscribers and first started watching you when I saw a recommend video in my feed and I said "huh looks interesting" that video was amazing and made me immediately subscribe
I'm a simple man, if I see a Codyslab video I press like.
Spuddy same
A simple man with simple needs.
The russian memes would not let me go
Love your profile name!
Really enjoying those videos, you really are the guy who does all this stuff because "I want to know" which is an awesome attitude :D
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ya like jazz
Ya Boi yes, yes I do.
Perhaps.
I just want to know one thing: who are those 181 who do not like this video or any of your videos in the first place? What are they here for precisely, to see what?
I love your videos. Keep 'em coming.
3:36 so thaaats how they made candy cigarettes. No wonder its so hard to find nowadays.
How long till Cody finally goes full on Breaking Bad?
Peter Burrell I hate to break it to you, but that show is no longer with us.
weredragon100 stop destroying my dreams!
Bad is already broken.
this vid brought me back to my good old junkie days
'In today's video I swallow an entire gram of methamphetamine to disprove the notion that a single does always leads to addiction!'
How to make the worlds most expensive chalk.
Not exactly, no.
Does anyone else realize he turned gold into a white powder seems very interesting to me how gold became a white powder like chalk has anyone heard of monoatomic gold spoken as about by David Hudson in his lectures
I've continually enjoyed your videos! Just keep yourself safe with any number of those fun solutions!
I remember a time I accidentally got some developing agent onto my cloths, which was well known to cause cancer, but a SUPER big molecule, so less of a concern, so long as you don't ingest it. In any case, be safe and keep being cool!
What happens to a weighing balance in a vacuum??
Akhil Sukhthankar That'd be cool, to measure the weight of the air pressure.
Probably would need re-calibration.
There would be no difference because air pressure presses on all the surfaces equally. To measure the "weight" of air pressure you'd need to pull a vacuum on the bottom surface of the scale.
If two objetcs with diferent volumes where in the balance, you would be able to see a difference because the Buoyant force of air would disaper
I'm not sure about it, but there should be a spot under the surface where air pressure pushing up will not change (Where the surface contacts the sensor) and this should make a difference between both areas resulting in a "lift effect".
this is my favorite channel on youtube. ive been with you since 2500 subs
Hi Cody, Awesome stuff! Though solubility in mixtures of metals or mixtures of salts is not really analogous to solubility in aqueous solutions. For example at sufficiently high temperatures gold and mercury would behave like miscible fluids, and when lowering the temperature, the precipitate that forms would be an alloy of gold and mercury, not pure gold. Check out metal phase diagrams to see the steady-states for these dissolving processes in terms of temperature and composition. It seems likely that you have made a semisolid phase, and that the solid portion you removed was not gold but the solid portion of the semisolid melt, which is a specific phase of gold and mercury. The liquid portions were so similar in density and had so little gold because even with zinc in one mixture, the eutectic point for mercury plus basically any metal with a high melting point will be almost pure mercury. The solid phase that was removed probably has the higher density and 'solubility' you were looking for. Let me know if you have any metallurgical questions and keep up the good work.
This is my favorite channel! :) Love you Cody!!
Wait, I know that 1g of water is 1ml but how does displacing water make it have more mass?
I'll give two explanations they are equivalent but use different methods to describe it
Exp 1
Because displace the water with the mercury creates a buoyancy force upwards on the mercury relative to the amount of water displaced, this reaction to this force (newton's 3rd law) pushes down onto the water and scale increasing the mass shown on the scale
Exp 2
The displacement causes the water level to rise so the pressure at the bottom of the beaker increases (as Pressure=densityX9.81Xheight) as force= pressureXarea the force on the beaker and scales increases, showing an increase in mass on the scale
Let me know if you don't understand what I said and I'll try explaining it again
Thanks! Yes that makes sence
I love your channel and experiments but most of all i'm absolutely impressed with your knowledge and the ease at which you operate while carrying out experiments.
13:37 long video and +100 likes people know it's going to be a good video.
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A problem I see with the density as a measure for how much metal dissolved, is that is assumes the density of the amalgam is directly proportional to the ratios of metals.
At least for other alloys, that's not the case. Some alloys have properties that are not in between the metals they're made of. Like bronze being harder than copper and tin, for instance, not something in between.
The same should apply to density, as the atoms of a metal are progressively being introduced in the latices of the other metal. Nothing warrants the alloy density will progress linearly from one of the metals density value to the other's.
Also note that not only mercury dissolves gold, also gold absorbs mercury, which alters its properties a lot. So you probably want to extract the mercury from that gold bar before you use it for something.
Gold gets easily contaminated by both mercury and lead, making it a lot less malleable among other effects.
Current methods for extracting gold from ore require cyanide. Can you make a video demonstrating this process?
If Cody and friends were around doing this stuff 200 years ago, we would be on the planet Mars with kids by now.
From your experiments, I think you've made the assumption that dissolving gold in mercury will not change the volume of liquid, therefore you can find solubility by looking at a density change. Is this necessarily true -- does dissolving X mg of gold in (say) 10ml of mercury still result in just 10ml of solution?
Your are right the volume will increase but only proportionally to the mass of gold dissolved in the mercury. The density is always just the ratio of the mass and volume and as the mass increases faster than the volume, the density is increasing.
Hello, i am from Germany, so please excuse my bad english. I love your videos. But one Tip from me: If you use a Syringe to filter the Mercury, you have to be very carefull when pressing the piston really hard(because you have a very viscous liquid, or many fine particles etc.). Because if you press too hard, the liquid can flow between the piston and wall of the syringe and fly towards your body. That happened to me before but not with hazardous liquids. The Syringe you used is, in my oppinion, better than the oney without a pice of rubber at the end of the piston but it still can happen.
Any updates on the digester?
Hey Cody! Just wanted to say your channel is awesome! Some of the stuff you do is amazing... Keep it up!
I like your outro Cody!
Thank you for everything Codyslab you're my favorite friggin channel.
Thumbnail was written by a caveman scientist.
Lol true
Cody wakes up in the middle of the night to drink something.
Stumble across a bottle filled with liquid, presumes it's water.
Drinks it, tastes sweet he says.
Goes back to sleep.
Wakes up like a mad man going insane!!!!!
Hey Cody I wonder what will happen with Coke and Mentos in a vacuum chamber I wonder if it would add gases to the vacuum or just have no reaction
It would add CO2 to the chamber and get it all messy.
My guess is that it isn't possible in the conditions Cody has available. What I mean is that in order for that to work, the Coke and mentos set up would have to reach vacuum first. This takes a while. And while doing so, all the carbon dioxide in the coke could've boiled off. However, if he does manage it, it's gonna be great cause the air will expand more creating more fizz. Either that or it'll pop quicker and not much foam will come out.
Arnav Wadekar Its imposible to do, and dumb.
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I would like to see that as well.
My prediction is the coke would lose all its solvated CO2 and become a flat sugar water, which will react very weakly to the mentos.
I'm binging older Cody'sLab videos again and my god, I love these videos so much
That chalk from the gold and mercury is very interesting.
Cody bro... would really like to offer an idea for ya, i haven't seen anything SPECIFIC on the matter, but i would truly love to give you the suggestion, you're the BEST!!!
sugg: How to dissolve (remove) ALL organics from a circuit board using household or easily acquired chemicals (so nothing but metal is left and how to refine EACH metal out) would LOVE to see that on your channel bro!! Stay Awesome!!
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At 20c water is 0.998g/cm³, and data table I have shows mercury at 13.546g/cm³ at same temp, so, some maybe a third of the discrepancy could be chalked up to that, but maybe a more precise weighing rig is in order. After I saw your video about it, I used this method to get density of a supposedly nickel crucible. I was able to get precision of +/- 5/10,000, and results very closely matched published value for Ni. Thanks by the way, I tried before to use displacement like I remembered from school, (measuring overflow water) - not very precise...
You should have named the video 'Making the world's heaviest liquid' with some crazy thumbnail. Do you even clickbait Cody?
"He DISSOLVED GOLD in mercury and you will NEVER GUESS what happened NEXT!!!"
THIS MAN tried to make lethal gold jewelry FOR HIS TERMINALLY ILL WIFE but instead MADE THE HEAVIEST LIQUID EVER *FOR SCIENCE!*
Irving MacBrynleigh Jr. HOW TO MAKE THE WORLDS HEAVIEST LIQUID!SCIENTISTS WANT TO TAKE DOWN THIS VIDEO!!!
WOW! YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO DISSOLVE MERCURY, GOLD AND ZINC! (crazy thumbnail)
Wow I'm actually impressed by that scale trick to get the volume. Never seen that before, but that impressed me 👌
How is he measuring the volume with a scale?
1kg of water = 1 Liter , the bottle cap is suspended from above with a wire, while plunged it supports the weight of the water directly above it, by pouring the mercury inside of it, you're displacing it's exact volume in water out of the cup, that water will weigh on the scale instead of the cup, you take the difference in grams and convert it to volume :D
So 1 gram on the scale is 1 ml of water?
At 4 degrees yes, not quite at room temperature. It works with other liquids too.
I believe some ancient alchemy texts say that bismuth and gold will dissolve more because the gold and bismuth will form Au2Bi a compound. That will likely double the amount of gold you can dissolve. Then you can add that to antimony bronze and then after driving off the mercury a nice alloy will result.
Almost at 1mil subs!!!!
Thanks Cody! This is the first you tube channel I m subscribing... brave guy you are! Previously I have worked on mercury... prepared Mercury sulfide (Black one)... during which I have gone through headache, Throat & eyes irritation and mouth sore... Even after precaution ???
much dissolve, such wow
Could you dissolve osmium on mercury to make it denser, or osmium doesn't make an alloy with mercury?
Imagine the pain in the ass it would have been to try and recover the gold from the mercury toilet.
your channel has gotten huge good job
So, a question I hope Cody will have time to answer: let’s say I had 10 kilos of gold and wanted to transport across the country (moving)...and wanted to put it in a form that anyone trying to steal something would overlook it. This sure looks like an answer. A big plastic tub of these “chalks” labeled lime pellets or something. Other ideas?
Alan, another idea: Don't try to scam the brothers. You only end up to the river, and your last tought would be why didn't graduate instead to be fool opportunist!
Mercury is the method of choice for artisanal gold extraction in South America(eg Venezuela), so one ounce of artisanal gold corresponds to how many ounces of mercury used in the extraction process and then boiled off?
You should try to extract metals from a catalytic converter
So close to a million. I subbed at 36k congratulations!!!!
Mercury does not dissolve gold that quickly the amalgamation process slows down alot towards the end of the process ive had a gram of gold dissolving in mercury for close to five months and its still amalgamating for you to do it in under 5 hours just seems incredibly absurd your video inspired me to do this and now i feel like ive been mis informed
feel free to share your results
One of the few youtubers who regularly does experiments with expensive metals :) Quite interesting!
how much did this video cost you?
Pretty much nothing, he recovered all the gold and mercury at the end, only the nitric acid and zinc were wasted. (The gold was expensive, but has been used several times and can easily be resold.)
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Hey Cody. Was watching your old videos about breaking gallium. Could the reason why gallium breaks with very abrupt bending because of the heat that is produced due to friction in the metal melts the metal at the bending point?
Lol a 33 minutes long advert before this video by Tai Lopez
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***** If only i thought of that before watching it all
another trending video! killing it Cody!
Mercury on table at 3:49
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that cheers mate!
Baint Prush it’s not the table. It’s a wood board inside a large plastic tub
That density measurement technique totally blew my mind. I thought this should not be possible at all. This really got me wondering what other things I assume to be impossible which actually are quite easy to do... One thing though: Could you add an annotation to the video, linking to the video explaining the method? This should be more convenient for other people who do not know the technique yet :)
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Why?
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Sir if mercury is purified using jadi butti means throung certain plant juice it can dissolve 3 time golf than mercury.
Maybe extract iron from blood! if it's possible ;)
And not YOUR blood! I know what you can do for science...
why not his blood? That would make it more interesting
Lucas G. Because he'll have to extract all of his blood just to get about 2 grams of iron and I don't want him to die 😂
He's dealt with micrograms before; if he were to take a standard blood donation volume, boil that down and extract he'd certainly have *something* if only a few grains of the metal.
Can you imagine what boiling blood would smell like!????????
In the Sprengal vac pump video, at the end where the mercury is sitting at two different heights and you warn not to stick your fingers in as you got a shock is that measurable on a DVM ? ? ? 🤔
Get a haircut when you hit 1 million, Cody. ;)
This video is as elite as it's own length.
I am watching this from an airplane how cool is that
pretty lame.
how cool is that
Jared Mulder yeah planes have had wifi for several years now... Stupid kids think everything is cool
Generic Name although in my shitty country we still haven't it yet lol
Pretty cool
Odd random question: Is there anything fun you could do with Leaded Gasoline?
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I have a question plz ?
How can the liquid mercury color change from silver to red ? Is there any special element to add it to mercury to become red?
And thank you in advance .
Never knew Mercury dissolves Gold.
It's a typical liquid metal but cooler, it dissolves a lot of things, like aluminum and copper.
Now you know
I know i say this about most of his work.. but man i love the precious metals series
U like alchemy?
Useless comment about me not being first!
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Realy late incorectyl-y spellt coment that rANDOMLY SWITCHES TO CAPS LOCK IN THE MIDLE OF THE SETNCENCE FOR NO REASON
would you think dissolving gold into Mercury would reduce the solutions vapor pressure to less than pure Mercury? it could prove itself quite useful for the sprengel pump
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A: no, you are not
B: it's 1st not 1nd
doctor what you must be fun at party's.
doctor what have you ever heard of something called a joke? Because that comment might be something called that. Search a dictionary for it.
doctor what your the kind of guy who thinks he is smart but is really unsociable and stupid
his right guys its 1st not 1nd idots learn to writee
How is he finding the volume at 4:22? Why is the mass of the water changing just because something is submerged (but suspended) in it?
Because its still adding to the total weight. (think mass=weight atleast on Earth)
The water had to press onto the scale in an equal and opposite direction of the object suspended in the water. Think of buoyant force
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you can't extract something from a place that doesn't have it
Almost to one million subs. Nice. Love your vids.
Such dissolve.
Much wow
Haven't seen the brine shrimp in the background, how's that going?
I like pie
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the pie is a lie
what flavor?
Eric M pie flavor
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Thank you for not pouring the mercury water down the drain, Cody.
Love your vids never subscribed because they were on my homepage, youtube should fix this honestly you'd have more subscribers when they stopped showing up however had to look you up noice vids keep up the work man
oh thank god.first time I have seen u play with mercury with gloves on!
GJ!
I'm not at all a scientist, but I think all of your videos are so entertaining and interesting! Great job!
Extract flouride from toothpaste/mouthwash. Would that be possible?
finally a video thats not a vacuum chamber video...
gona give you a like
I was soldering a copper pipe in my son's bathroom and dropped some solder on his 14k gold necklace. Please tell me there is a way to remove the solder?
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How do You "treat" the paper and cotton that You have used as filtration and tor other things? Maybe that's worth another video, or have You have already done that ??
Best regards.
Dissolve in sulfuric acid, add to jug.
How heavy is that nitric acid mercury solution? And how heavy could it get? It seems kind of fascinating to have a clear or at transparent liquid a much higher weight than water.
Can you show us the Borax leaching method for gold extraction? It's said to be more environmentally friendly but I've no clue how to do it.
Could you grow a large gold crystal continually dissolving gold into mercury, and mercury into the acid, and how long would i take to grow something like that?
omg you are so close to 1 mil! you should of gotten 1 mil a LONG time ago! best wishes!
Cody, can dissolve gold be retrieved fully to its natural state, of a drop or bar. Example 1oz Gold to Mercury back to 1oz gold.?
i think the reason for the number slightly bigger is the wire you used to hang the cap is quite large and its volume is considerable to the measurement. maybe thinner wire like fishing cord will yield more accurate result
@Cody'sLab Barometric pressure effects density. In Utah, your elevation will directly effect the your densities.