i use clay for a lot of molds, maybe with some hydrophobic varnish you could mold opal, and put it in any shape you want... Thanks for your job, a lot of your recipes are very usefull even for a non-chemist like me. Oh, and i'll do an opalescent wand of contorded willow, so, thanks, a lot.
This is not funny. Edit: The child replying to me is so triggered that someone doesn't share their viewpoint, it's actually hilarious, and you people that upvoted him lmao, definition of toxic people "I find it funny so you're wrong if you don't"... no, it's just not funny cause not everyone's the same and finding something more or less amusing doesn't make someone more or less of a person, grow up.
@@xBoredomx yup it do , but i will suggerst more detail video on that subject by a youtuber i followed .. and some guides ..that i followed suggested by the chemist ...who was interested in this project
🚨 Danger: One thing you forgot to mention is TEOS is really bad to breathe because those little silica particles can settle in your lungs basically turning your lungs to opal. You have to use a fume hood because the TEOS is so small it can also pass through filtration masks
Actually no. Opalite is not the same as opal. Opal can be lab grown just like any other gemstone. Opalite is always man-made. It’s not the same as opal regardless if the opal is natural or lab grown
@@midnighttheumbreon8857also false! There is natural opalite (called common opal) as well, often found at the edges of iridescent opal fields! The size and density of the silica particles that form the opal determine its colour and pattern and these same particles distributed less densely and regularly than in an iridescent, “precious” opal make the milky shimmer of opalite!
@@maddiedoesntknothey are glass, plastic, and resin they resemble opal to the naked eye and that is hardly to any opal lover. Lab opals are genuine opals the same as lab diamonds but they simply are not natural
This would be a pretty neat thing to do if you could fill an entire mold out of it. Imagine being able to peel off the mold after a span of some months and getting a cool little statue out of it!
What’s stopping us theoretically from picking a glass container that has a shape to it and using it as a mold and then breaking it to be left with a bit of opal that’s vaguely the shape we wanted? Would that work?
Isn’t it kinda funny how chemistry is kinda reality warping, you literally combine molecules that can create totally different substances and shit. Kinda dope
Kind of funny how your average RUclips commenter doesn't appreciate chemistry until you make something shiny in glass tube. Only then does chemistry become interesting 😂
@@GazB85Id guess just as valuable considering it seems pretty rare. I mean I'm just now finding out it exists through the video. It’s possible it’s not but I would guess when it’s mind it's technically more valuable because it's not synthetic. Who knows maybe not
That's actually even better, you can make a mold of whatever you want, pour them in there and then break it or pull out when you're done so you can have a little opal tiger or dice for d&d or whatever.
That's not really how that would work, the issue is drying the opal. I've been researching this for weeks now on how to make a opal dice for cheap. Real opal is too expensive, Ethiopian opal is it brittle, opalite is not right, I would need lab grown. The issue with lab grown opal that it's convincing is the drying process you either need to dry it at 10k psi so that it would hold the shape it has or use resin. One is expensive and the other doesn't allow for the shape to change. If you skip the drying step properly then it will crack or shrink, and also the opal doesn't harden in the shape of the mold as not all the liquid would be used when it hardens leaving gaps. I did find bello opal slabs tho, that are easy to tell its not real opal but has the right properties and hardness. Plus a slab is about 200 bucks. So all you would need then is someone willing to cut the slab into dice. I estimate the total cheapest real opal look to be about 500 bucks. At most if you use real Australian opal like 30k.
Natural opal looks fairly different even after etching it with HF etc but that is indeed what synthetic opal looks like under an electron microscope. Opals from some places have the appearance of much more symmetrical balls and look more like the synthetic version. There are some scans of lightning ridge opal where even after etching the structure is much more interconnected and lumpy but they are still highly opalescent.
@@glenecollins it's pretty cool that you know that. If you don't mind my asking, how come you know that? Do you work with these materials or something?
@@jeanocasio5432 Sorry to butt in, but just a small trivia. Method described in this video is also known as Strober method, it's one of the most popular methods of obtaining silica nanospheres. And yes, there's scientists who study processes of formation of opal like structures ( to find find more relevant info you could browse some scientific papers, usually they have some SEM images ).
That doesn’t work, because gemstone companies refuse to sell lab-grown gems. Remember we can make cheap diamonds in a lab that are better quality than natural, but debeers and other whole-sellers refuse to touch them because the value lies in the rarity
There's tons of sellers who make em! The real ones are expensive, and there is a truly vast difference in the end product compared to real opal but for the price it can't be beat. I feel much less guilty when my fake opals crack or break versus the real ones. 😊
Nothing you can’t order off Amazon, really could do it on your stove in a pot if you wanted to but that wouldn’t work for a video trying to show the reaction.
@@Angelaopalart I would love to purchase one. I'm trying to start up my own jewelry business and I dump every penny I come across into it. I'm sure you were there once too. I'm gearing up for Christmas season and hope to make enough for silver and a few of those. I will definitely keep you in mind when I'm ready. Thanks for your posting and reply.
Missed marketing chance. Next time try: I have similar stones 'Avail-Opal'! As your new advertizing and consulting partner, I only expect 15% profit, paid in stones, whenever you have the 'Opal-Tunity' to do so. Have a 'Wond-Opal' day, that isn't 'BLack-ing' in 'Fire-endship' in a 'Tr-Opal-cal' place that is 'Beaut-Opal'.
Fun fact! The play of color is dependent upon the regularity and size of the silicon dioxide spheres. If it's irregular in size, no play of color, if the spheres are too small, the colors will be limited to blue. As the size increases, you will get green ,yellow, orange and red. If you can get red, that area will also produce the other colors as the angle of light shifts!
Chromatography columns could do the trick, that’ll allow you to take the bottom layer out as you wish and can help you keep the silica in the column to make more. Continuous opal
Safety first friend! Get some glass scoring tools, and score the tube. Use the gentle hammering to split the pieces. Do in small batches/steps. Repeat the process until able to free the stone. :D
@@sylthrina165 the only expensive part is the TEOS, i dont know how much you need for this but it doesnt look like much. You can buy it starting around $75 usd, almost everything else you can find workarounds for
@@NebulousNector Are you kidding? Opal is expensive as hell. Australian especially, but even Ethiopian all things considered (let's say you want a big one). And this is science, anything like that is beside the point. Think of the practical applications, synthetic opal whose properties you have full control over would have much more than natural. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to go mining for opals too, (I'm a geology nerd), but synthetic opal is totally worth pursuing in my opinion.
@@NebulousNector There are benefits to synthetic. Natural opal has a high water content and is vulnerable to shattering. You also can’t incorporate it into glass blowing because the water will make it explode when it’s heated. Synthetic opals can be put inside blown glass pieces though.
@@donovanfaust3227 if you can, please elaborate so the less scientifically inclined can gain some insight from your obviously vast wisdom on the subject? 😊 i, for one, would love to know why that wouldn’t work and if you know a feasible solution, i order to make the opal look more natural! 😊
If you ran the solution in a centrifuge couldn’t you skip the month(s) long wait time, or would the necessary structures for opal not form without time?
The Opal is a medium in space, and thus also a medium in space-time. You can't just remove time, because then your Opal will not have anything to form in.
I felt the same thing...this feels quite genuine. 😎... There is no like, "TA DA! WELCOME TO THE MAGIC INTERNET WHERE EVERYONE IS PERFECT!"... I like that! If that makes sense! 😎
For people proposing breaking the glass. Opal is glass, so its possible that by breaking the glass beaker it might also break the opal. Maybe you could coat the tube glass to prevent that though. Although the lattice is probably less brittle with opal than normal amorphous glass.
@@winterfoxey5074opal mining isn't a big environmental issue, it's generally done by one or a few people on individual claims following very small seams in arid areas. I have never seen a kid involved in the process, indeed most of the miners look like old men. The process involves digging a round hold down to the layer they hope to find them then the use of hand held power tools to follow the seam. It's nothing at all like diamond mining.
@@rockspoon6528 I know, but what he is demonstrating here was from a video 2 years ago (dec 4, 2020 "Can you GROW an Opal?"). So, even though the date of posting might make one think this is a joke, is actually real.
Use a silicone mold instead of a tube. You can make really cool shapes. Make a diamond shape and you can set it in a ring like a wedding ring. It would be stunning.
My great grandpa used to do this back in the day. Said that none of the experts could tell the difference between 'real' (mined) opal and his opal, but he stopped making it after someone stole a bunch from him.
If the Opal has bonded to the tube, use a glass sander to grind away the test tube. It would take a lot of safety precautions, but would be worth the end results. That Opal was stunning❤!
I think the best way would be to drain the remaining liquid, then compress and heat the raw opal puck to soldifify the particle-particle connections and hopefully get a monolithic opal and not shitty opal dust
The temperatures you are using don't preclude plastic. Put your slurry into a 2-part mold coated with releasing agent (petroleum jelly?) and let it set up. Pull the two pieces apart and out pops your opal.
or put it in concrete or some sht make it like you mined it out of the earth then you can even have a cool base for the crystal lookin like it isn’t synthetically made using magic
Step 1. Empty tube of remaining fluid, and wash as required. Step 2: Redo experiment and make a second layer of Opal on the first one. Repeat until half the tube is full of solid Opal. Then you can smash the tube, because you have enough opal to make something special with it.
@@fastpack6130 as long as the white fluid at the end is actual nano silica particles, the video is real. The part where he doesn’t know how to get the opal out is kinda suspicious though unless he doesn’t want to break his measuring tube thing. This youtuber did make a video about the possibility of making opal though
Make a flexible sheathe for it to go into, it can work like wax paper during baking. If you want to let it sit for more than a few months, you can also stir it occasionally to stop the ugly vertical collumns from forming.
This would have to be a frozen opal, wish as water opals. If you freeze this opal you will be able to remove it from the tube but it can only stay in form if frozen. You’ll need to activate it with a pressure(this will make the color beautiful and a rock you can hold that isn’t in a deep freeze)
Take two flat washers and tack them together with one laying flat and one standing up. Lay it in the bottom of the tube and the opal will form around it. When you’re ready to remove the opal, just hook the washer and pull.
@@TheBassistninja that could work but I worry about the cluster cocking when the string is pulled which will just get it stuck in a different way. With the up turned washer tacked in the middle, the string or hook pulls straight up, preventing cocking.
"I'm gonna show YOU how to make one" "You just need this one thing that most people don't have lying around"😂😂 real note, I've learned so much cool shit from this guy
Create a chemically soluble material and make tubes out of it so that after the crystals are done you just dip it into specialty acid and that frees the gem.
So lucky. I absolutely adore opal. To me it beats diamonds hands down every time. I finally got my first black opal three years ago and even though it is somewhat small I find myself just staring at it getting lost in pattern and the colors in the light.
Another amazing thing you can do with opal: ruclips.net/video/4AxiXS9n0dw/видео.html
i use clay for a lot of molds, maybe with some hydrophobic varnish you could mold opal, and put it in any shape you want...
Thanks for your job, a lot of your recipes are very usefull even for a non-chemist like me.
Oh, and i'll do an opalescent wand of contorded willow, so, thanks, a lot.
Can you please do videos on how to grow other gemstones maybe Ruby or diamond
Would vacuum help?
You need about thirty million pounds of pressure and thousands of degrees of heat to make Opel. This isn't it.
@@gwydionrusso3206 for ruby use Aluminum oxide and Chromium oxide.
99 grams aluminum oxide and 1 gram chromium oxide, need really high heat too react.
“All we need to do” *whips out whole chemistry class equipment*
Right, like of course hold on let me get my chemistry set out of the kitchen...
Lol to be fair, that’s most of what this channel is. Relative to other projects, this is simple
Innit. Thought the same thing 😉✌️❤️
He already knows. thats why theres bands around the tube.
Lets just go the store and get some TEOS... 😂
"I dont know how to get it out the tube"
NileRed looking over your shoulder, with big pleading anime eyes, holding a hammer: 🥺
Underrated comment!😂
Who?
@@andrewspielman1921
NileRed is a chemistry channel run by a young Canadian.
@@jensphiliphohmann1876 thanks! What a deep cut.
JAJAJAJAJAJAJJAJA. You are a genius
"In case of Opal, break the Glass"
HAHA 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
@FerSkecth472 Is that an Artemis Fowl reference?😀
This is not funny.
Edit: The child replying to me is so triggered that someone doesn't share their viewpoint, it's actually hilarious, and you people that upvoted him lmao, definition of toxic people "I find it funny so you're wrong if you don't"... no, it's just not funny cause not everyone's the same and finding something more or less amusing doesn't make someone more or less of a person, grow up.
LMAOOOO
NileRed: we need to extract it carefully
NileBlue: *smash the tube*
They are the same people
@@Ditroll_XD No shit captain obvious
@@Ditroll_XDLooky what we have here.. a detective
@@Ditroll_XD**gasps** "NO WAY!!"
@@Ditroll_XDno shit sherlock
Not me starting this video thinking I too could create some opal 😂
He already knows. thats why theres bands around the tube.
lol
As soon as I heard the chemical names and saw his equipment I knew I was never graduating from my childhood rock tumbler 😒
Then who? Who is thinking that? Tell us. Enquiring minds demand to know.
I mean opal is really pretty so I don't blame you
Use a flask you dont like... and break it.
This one insulted me and my family, I will break it
@@sadpluslonely2775 lmao
Well that's a cylinder, not a flask
@@TheRussell747 *beaker
@@tophr2710 *glass cup
Him: I haven't figured it out how to take it out.
NileRed: Just break the tube.
That's too accurate 😂
Just smash it across the wall/floor/ceiling
His channel is the reason I thought "just break it lol" when he said this
This was my first thought lol
Nilegreen
Love that he’s giving us step by step instructions like we’re all gonna try this 😂
I mean if you have a mini lab nearby or you have one in the garage, you could actually.
yeah i did it
@@WAKONIANSdid it work?
@@xBoredomx yup it do , but i will suggerst more detail video on that subject by a youtuber i followed .. and some guides ..that i followed suggested by the chemist ...who was interested in this project
I def wanna try it
Him: “idk how to get it out😢”
NileRed: “so im gonna smash the tube lightly”
Nile green
"I'm going to destroy this tube gently"
"carefully shatter the tube"
It may shatter the opal to break the tube.
I’m pretty sure you copied someone else’s comment…
“All we need to do.”
That’s all? Oh sure, I will get all this chemical equipment I don’t have and get going!
It's impossible not to read it in his voice
to follow the damn train CJ!
🤬🤬🤙
🚨 Danger: One thing you forgot to mention is TEOS is really bad to breathe because those little silica particles can settle in your lungs basically turning your lungs to opal. You have to use a fume hood because the TEOS is so small it can also pass through filtration masks
"All we need to do is make some particles and stack them"
Easier said than done
I came here looking for this comment
I do that in the toilet every day...
@@nekkoskrilla6750sewage cleaners be finding opal now and then 😂
@@RC-ii3lm my sewage cleaner be finding diamonds from me personally 😏
Hold my beer, let me just bust out the bottle of TEOS fromy garage storage box
Ah yes…. Just stack the particles…. I’ll ask AntMan if he’s not too busy
Fun fact lab made opal is called opalite. I have a piece of opalite.
that is so cool!
Actually no. Opalite is not the same as opal. Opal can be lab grown just like any other gemstone. Opalite is always man-made. It’s not the same as opal regardless if the opal is natural or lab grown
@@midnighttheumbreon8857also false! There is natural opalite (called common opal) as well, often found at the edges of iridescent opal fields! The size and density of the silica particles that form the opal determine its colour and pattern and these same particles distributed less densely and regularly than in an iridescent, “precious” opal make the milky shimmer of opalite!
@@maddiedoesntknoagain, false. opalite is in fact always manmade because it's glass.
@@maddiedoesntknothey are glass, plastic, and resin they resemble opal to the naked eye and that is hardly to any opal lover. Lab opals are genuine opals the same as lab diamonds but they simply are not natural
You gotta put a little Crisco down before you bake it.😊
Or add butter to the recipe, right?
@@miles11we only if you don't want the opal to be synthetic.
BAKE IT??? HE JUST LEFT IT SITTING BRO
@@wynoglia it's gotta cool down before you dig in, obviously.
@@wynoglia u ok?
This would be a pretty neat thing to do if you could fill an entire mold out of it. Imagine being able to peel off the mold after a span of some months and getting a cool little statue out of it!
A silicon mold should work.
hngh molds are too hard to make. ill just settle for bones
@@theshuman100 this is the comment right here FBI
What’s stopping us theoretically from picking a glass container that has a shape to it and using it as a mold and then breaking it to be left with a bit of opal that’s vaguely the shape we wanted? Would that work?
@@EKimatHrisk breaking the opal and not it being all one piece
Isn’t it kinda funny how chemistry is kinda reality warping, you literally combine molecules that can create totally different substances and shit. Kinda dope
Kind of funny how your average RUclips commenter doesn't appreciate chemistry until you make something shiny in glass tube. Only then does chemistry become interesting 😂
@zachnies13 well yeah?? Are we not meant to be impressed when someone literally makes a sick rock from basically nothing
@@zachnies13Remember this is a real person.
I like drugs
@@zachnies13yeah that's generally how it goes, as humans we're interested in things that we find interesting....
Mom- "tha hell you think your cooking in my damn house?!?!"
Me- ....opals
Cooking me 🫠🫠🫠
😂😂😢@@opelashraf6162
Meth?!
No ma, OPAL I SAID!!
"Meth" :))
@@ar-sithf.austin3744 u deserve more likes bro haha
"but we have to let it cook"
*Walter white has entered the chat*
This needs more likes
Ain't it sad that breaking bad is getting so old kids these days probably haven't even heard of it 15 years ago it premiered! feels like yesterday
@@bobmarley2140 but memes are bringing it back
The tube is worth 10 times the opal... But ya I would break it
@@bobmarley2140 better late than never
If chem labs taught this to students, they’d be way more popular
the problem is, more interesting chemistry tends to be more expensive and took a long time
@@daudabdulhakimnaufal9832 fair point ☹️
“Jessie. We need to cook!”😂
Cooking some crystal 💀💀
BREAKING BAD !!!!!!
Jokes like these make life worth living lol
True!!! Hahah and so grateful there are people out there , normal... like you@@RyukyuStyle
😂❤
Can we get an update on the opal? Did you get it out of the tube?
Centrifuge
Lol @@louislwspsycdaf9049
break glass, or pick a better settle-out container, such as a soft plastic, perhaps with a desirable bottom shape.
@@louislwspsycdaf9049The issue stays the same. How do you get the opal out?
Silicone mold??
POV: When you look away in science class for 2 seconds
no fr
nilered: *throws beaker*
"Jesse, we need to cook Opal"
Tried this at home. Funeral proceedings are ongoing.
😂
🤣🤣
Rest in peace
Pecker caught in beaker. Instructions in video unclear 😢
For what, your hopes and dreams or the shattered opal? Or both?
My father in the mid-60s mined opal in Mexico. My mother said we were very comfy for ten years, until the supply ran low.
Are they worth a lot less now that they can be made synthetically?
@GazB85 not sure, probably not.
@GazB85 if it's anything like the diamond market, then they can just hog the supply until the perceived value is up
@@ld2048 True.
@@GazB85Id guess just as valuable considering it seems pretty rare. I mean I'm just now finding out it exists through the video.
It’s possible it’s not but I would guess when it’s mind it's technically more valuable because it's not synthetic. Who knows maybe not
WE SEE YOU OPAL YOUR TROUBLES ARE MILES AWAY!!!!
WE SEE YOU OPALLL!!!!
AND IN OUR EYES YOULL STAYYYYYYY
jack stauber reference
No no nope nope....
I thought I was the only one that thought about Jack stauber
@@m0odiEsubz23 well you were wrong
😍
don't mind the house across the street
That's actually even better, you can make a mold of whatever you want, pour them in there and then break it or pull out when you're done so you can have a little opal tiger or dice for d&d or whatever.
Omg yesssssss
Awesome idea!
opal buttplug
That hella smart my boy
That's not really how that would work, the issue is drying the opal. I've been researching this for weeks now on how to make a opal dice for cheap. Real opal is too expensive, Ethiopian opal is it brittle, opalite is not right, I would need lab grown. The issue with lab grown opal that it's convincing is the drying process you either need to dry it at 10k psi so that it would hold the shape it has or use resin. One is expensive and the other doesn't allow for the shape to change. If you skip the drying step properly then it will crack or shrink, and also the opal doesn't harden in the shape of the mold as not all the liquid would be used when it hardens leaving gaps. I did find bello opal slabs tho, that are easy to tell its not real opal but has the right properties and hardness. Plus a slab is about 200 bucks. So all you would need then is someone willing to cut the slab into dice. I estimate the total cheapest real opal look to be about 500 bucks. At most if you use real Australian opal like 30k.
Use a silicone tube. If you can put it under pressure while it solidifies it might have different and or better characteristics.
Is that the chemical structure of Opal, or an Ad for mini Jaw Breakers from 1930?
🤣 lmao
Natural opal looks fairly different even after etching it with HF etc but that is indeed what synthetic opal looks like under an electron microscope.
Opals from some places have the appearance of much more symmetrical balls and look more like the synthetic version. There are some scans of lightning ridge opal where even after etching the structure is much more interconnected and lumpy but they are still highly opalescent.
@@glenecollins it's pretty cool that you know that. If you don't mind my asking, how come you know that? Do you work with these materials or something?
@Dyslexic Mitochondria okay
@@jeanocasio5432 Sorry to butt in, but just a small trivia. Method described in this video is also known as Strober method, it's one of the most popular methods of obtaining silica nanospheres. And yes, there's scientists who study processes of formation of opal like structures ( to find find more relevant info you could browse some scientific papers, usually they have some SEM images ).
i love watching science happen, like this guy & nilered are so neat to watch dude
This is probably far safer and legal than trying to cook Meth.
Edit:Thx for the likes, and remember: Don't Break Bad.
💀
We have to let it cook
Takes alot longer to make opal though
this definitely is a factual statement
yeah but what’s the fun in this? no risk or anything it’s mad boringgg
Shape them into Tile molds and you got yourself a business
You can make some badass dice with that
Dopals opals. Look it up. There are many opal companies
I’m planning on filling a fish tank substrate as opals, I live in au so opal mining is a option. I wonder if you can create black opal like this.
@@israelfleming3159 won’t work. They’re very water absorbent afaik.
@@israelfleming3159 look up profound glass
That could make jewelry on a huge scale... just imagine 5 gallons of solution poured in molds....endless options and opportunities 😊😊
Jesse, we need to cook
That doesn’t work, because gemstone companies refuse to sell lab-grown gems. Remember we can make cheap diamonds in a lab that are better quality than natural, but debeers and other whole-sellers refuse to touch them because the value lies in the rarity
There's tons of sellers who make em! The real ones are expensive, and there is a truly vast difference in the end product compared to real opal but for the price it can't be beat. I feel much less guilty when my fake opals crack or break versus the real ones. 😊
@@fort809they sell lab diamonds everywhere them everywhere. They’re 1/3 of the price of natural diamonds. They’re not that cheap
@@fort809 "rarity' 🤣
THANK YOU!! I think opal is my favorite besides Diamond and Quartz, so many to drool over, GREAT JOB!! 🎉🎉🎉
Me thinking I can make this easy, he pulls out a whole laboratory
He already knows. thats why theres bands around the tube.
Lol
It's just a way to heat something to a consistent temperature while stirring it. No laboratory needed.
Nothing you can’t order off Amazon, really could do it on your stove in a pot if you wanted to but that wouldn’t work for a video trying to show the reaction.
Black fire opal is the most beautiful stone out there
I have available opal stone
@@Angelaopalart I would love to purchase one. I'm trying to start up my own jewelry business and I dump every penny I come across into it. I'm sure you were there once too. I'm gearing up for Christmas season and hope to make enough for silver and a few of those. I will definitely keep you in mind when I'm ready. Thanks for your posting and reply.
Missed marketing chance.
Next time try:
I have similar stones 'Avail-Opal'!
As your new advertizing and consulting partner, I only expect 15% profit, paid in stones, whenever you have the 'Opal-Tunity' to do so.
Have a 'Wond-Opal' day, that isn't 'BLack-ing' in 'Fire-endship' in a 'Tr-Opal-cal' place that is 'Beaut-Opal'.
@@robford4679😂
I had two incredibly beautiful opals...They were stolen...
TEOS
Just don't coat your eye with silica.
Thanks Justin for this short!
Uhh, is that a challenge? It sounds like a challenge
@@Wtfinc XD
I cover my eyeballs with hydrated silicon every morning.
Instead eat it
I do
Sprinkle a layer of it in your toilet bowl before peeing. Trust me, it's safe for your pipes, and you get to have fun toilet-water urine sculptures!
Fun fact! The play of color is dependent upon the regularity and size of the silicon dioxide spheres. If it's irregular in size, no play of color, if the spheres are too small, the colors will be limited to blue. As the size increases, you will get green ,yellow, orange and red. If you can get red, that area will also produce the other colors as the angle of light shifts!
You're gonna have to make a sacrifice on this one, TE.
Chromatography columns could do the trick, that’ll allow you to take the bottom layer out as you wish and can help you keep the silica in the column to make more. Continuous opal
I love this channel ❤ i can't stop watching!!
Safety first friend! Get some glass scoring tools, and score the tube. Use the gentle hammering to split the pieces. Do in small batches/steps. Repeat the process until able to free the stone. :D
Try doing it while the whole flask is submerged underwater to reduce mess too
I ain't reading allat
@@Average_Internet_DMC_420 * noise of a glass tube being smashed against a wall *
“All we have to do is reconstruct molecules from the bottom up”
Bro listened in chemistry 💀
He's actually Walter White
True
"i love opal so much, i made it at home." Is the vibe I'm getting from this.
WE SEE YOU OPALLL
Bro showed us how to make a expensive gem at home
Still expensive if you've got to buy all that shit and set it up correctly lol
@@sylthrina165 the only expensive part is the TEOS, i dont know how much you need for this but it doesnt look like much. You can buy it starting around $75 usd, almost everything else you can find workarounds for
We see you, Opal
Your troubles are miles away
We see you, Opal
And in our eyes you'll stay
>:0
Steven universe plus Jack Stauber
*cringe*
Don't make me cry
🪞There she is! 💊Thats my girl! 📺Hi Opal! 🍔🍔🍔
You’ll never take me alive!
Coat the settling container with wax, and when it's done just run hot water over it. Alternatively cement/hydrochloric acid.
Or just use a hammer…
@@soude85 The whole point is that it's brittle. You're going to have an expensive pile of dust if you do that. Laboratory glassware isn't cheap, also.
@@noob19087true but opal isn’t exactly expensive either. Real opal. I get the experiment is fun but… idk id rather mine for mine I guess
@@NebulousNector Are you kidding? Opal is expensive as hell. Australian especially, but even Ethiopian all things considered (let's say you want a big one). And this is science, anything like that is beside the point. Think of the practical applications, synthetic opal whose properties you have full control over would have much more than natural. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to go mining for opals too, (I'm a geology nerd), but synthetic opal is totally worth pursuing in my opinion.
@@NebulousNector There are benefits to synthetic. Natural opal has a high water content and is vulnerable to shattering. You also can’t incorporate it into glass blowing because the water will make it explode when it’s heated. Synthetic opals can be put inside blown glass pieces though.
I am a true lover of crystals and all natural treasures and I absolutely love this video of your home grown Opal project🔮💜🔮
Instructions unclear, accidentally made a nuclear reactor
Instruction unclear, now i'm a druglord
unfunny
@@x2v9
Humor is subjective, so understandable
In your parents garage?
Was it in your mom's garage by any chance
I bet they'd look more natural if you disturbed the flask often while they're settling. That way, the pattern won't be so regular and perfect
Well you'd be wrong because that's not how that works.
@@donovanfaust3227 if you're going to be so rude, you could explain how it works. Because half of us probably had the same though as OP
@@donovanfaust3227 We’ve got a licensed opal-cooker here
@@donovanfaust3227 if you can, please elaborate so the less scientifically inclined can gain some insight from your obviously vast wisdom on the subject? 😊 i, for one, would love to know why that wouldn’t work and if you know a feasible solution, i order to make the opal look more natural! 😊
Will it even settle if you regularly stir it, though?
*”LET HIM COOK.”*
If you ran the solution in a centrifuge couldn’t you skip the month(s) long wait time, or would the necessary structures for opal not form without time?
I would love to know because that is what I thought about.
The centrifuge would probably still have to run for a long time.
In the full video he says that the centrifuge crashes them out of solution too quickly to form the right structures
The Opal is a medium in space, and thus also a medium in space-time. You can't just remove time, because then your Opal will not have anything to form in.
@@oonmm You’re 14 and that’s really deep
WE SEE YOU, OPAL, YOUR TROUBLES ARE MILES AWAAAYYY 🔥🔥🔥
Brilliance in the works. I love how the solution has yet to be determined. This is genuine. Thank you. Subbed.
Really? It hasnt?
Yep
I felt the same thing...this feels quite genuine. 😎...
There is no like, "TA DA! WELCOME TO THE MAGIC INTERNET WHERE EVERYONE IS PERFECT!"...
I like that! If that makes sense! 😎
Science is literally just magic with explanation and reasoning.
"We seee you Opal,
your toubles are miles a-way!"
Lol
Noooooo 🥹
For people proposing breaking the glass. Opal is glass, so its possible that by breaking the glass beaker it might also break the opal. Maybe you could coat the tube glass to prevent that though. Although the lattice is probably less brittle with opal than normal amorphous glass.
"Isnt it stunning?"
*Phone goes to grayscale*
"Not very stunning in BLACK AND WHITE-"
Also if I had the money and equipment I’d actually try this. Opals are indeed very cool
The "opal" he showed looks nothing like real opal also it's better to mine them youraelf
@@Samo_rustthis is way better than mining, both for the environment, and for all the people(including children) who are slaves working in mines.
@@winterfoxey5074 95% of the world opal supply comes from Australia and they aren’t using slaves
@@winterfoxey5074opal mining isn't a big environmental issue, it's generally done by one or a few people on individual claims following very small seams in arid areas. I have never seen a kid involved in the process, indeed most of the miners look like old men. The process involves digging a round hold down to the layer they hope to find them then the use of hand held power tools to follow the seam. It's nothing at all like diamond mining.
@@winterfoxey5074 A whole bunch of them in Australia are mined by the residents of Coober Pedy who work and live underground to avoid the heat.
How about a small plastic square (silicone) mold? This way you will also get a flat piece of opal, which I personally would prefer.
What day is it?
@@rockspoon6528 I know, but what he is demonstrating here was from a video 2 years ago (dec 4, 2020 "Can you GROW an Opal?"). So, even though the date of posting might make one think this is a joke, is actually real.
@@stijn2472 ye its just unfortunate date
I came here to suggest the same thing. I guess the only problem would be if the silicone was likely to react with any of the chemicals involved.
@@KatharineOsborne You'd still want the container to be quite tall, or else your opal will be a very thin sliver.
Use a silicone mold instead of a tube. You can make really cool shapes. Make a diamond shape and you can set it in a ring like a wedding ring. It would be stunning.
My great grandpa used to do this back in the day. Said that none of the experts could tell the difference between 'real' (mined) opal and his opal, but he stopped making it after someone stole a bunch from him.
Do it again but use a silicone mold
Would the opal not expand with it?
Yeah, there's no way Silica would stick to Silicone...
Check what day video was uploaded on
@@Theorbitaldogthe original video was posted in December. This isn't an April fools.
If the Opal has bonded to the tube, use a glass sander to grind away the test tube. It would take a lot of safety precautions, but would be worth the end results. That Opal was stunning❤!
Amazing!!
Thanks so much for this!!
"I haven't figured out how to get it out of the tube"
*NileRed's Hammer has entered the chat*
as a gemcutter that is my dream to make my own opal.pls make a full video with details.thank you❤❤
Get this man his video ❤
Yes please!!!!!! I wanna see too and make it too😍😍😍
If you're still on this, you could use breakaway molds to get opal statues or "fossils". Love to see that
I like your pfp :0
That ad transition was SMOOTH MAN
I think the best way would be to drain the remaining liquid, then compress and heat the raw opal puck to soldifify the particle-particle connections and hopefully get a monolithic opal and not shitty opal dust
The temperatures you are using don't preclude plastic.
Put your slurry into a 2-part mold coated with releasing agent (petroleum jelly?) and let it set up. Pull the two pieces apart and out pops your opal.
I was thinking similar. 😊
or put it in concrete or some sht make it like you mined it out of the earth then you can even have a cool base for the crystal lookin like it isn’t synthetically made using magic
@@kittiekillah I'd love to open a man made geode containing opal :D
Im wondering if the reaction binds the thin opal precipitate into a rigid layer, or if it would disperse back into suspension when agitated
thanks, can't wait to grow my own opal in my lab soon
As someone who consistently failed science class, i didn't understand a single thing you just explained but that looks pretty cool
You said silca, does that mean you could use the same process to synthesize asbestos?
"What are you making?"
"CANCER"
@@rockspoon6528lmao
Asbestos is not silica, it’s a variety of silicate minerals. Rather than round nanoparticles it forms long, needle-like crystals
👀
you can do whatever you want buddy thats what science is all about
I had no idea it was this easy 😳 might try this for myself!
"This ain't chemistry, this is art.... cooking is an art!"
Step 1. Empty tube of remaining fluid, and wash as required. Step 2: Redo experiment and make a second layer of Opal on the first one. Repeat until half the tube is full of solid Opal. Then you can smash the tube, because you have enough opal to make something special with it.
Remember to measure the blinker fluid with a full pipette ;)
Wat
@@Taha_Aseems its an april fools video.
@@fastpack6130 as long as the white fluid at the end is actual nano silica particles, the video is real. The part where he doesn’t know how to get the opal out is kinda suspicious though unless he doesn’t want to break his measuring tube thing. This youtuber did make a video about the possibility of making opal though
hm, cool then
@@fastpack6130 Check the original posting date. It’s not.
As someone who has no idea what im looking at I'd suggest using an eye dropper. Somewhat controllable and will remove all the liquid above the opal
You're not wrong, a pasteur pipette could go a long way here.
Insteuctions unclear, I summomed a demon
Yeah but was it all pretty and iridescent?
@@Zeropointill Indeed.
No problem make more friends with demon
Success?
You too?
Make a flexible sheathe for it to go into, it can work like wax paper during baking. If you want to let it sit for more than a few months, you can also stir it occasionally to stop the ugly vertical collumns from forming.
You could use a silicone mold rather then a test tube.
Maybe even 3d print custom mold with TPU for custom shapes
How would your solution react to a silicon container or plastic liner?
Jesus, you got silica two, three inches long. This is pure opal! You're a goddamn artist!
If you think that's 2-3 inches I got some bad news for you. And you're probably lying on your tinder profile mate.
Well actually, it's just basic chemistry.
As soon as my brain heard “cook” the breaking bad theme played in my head
Reminds me of a Simpson quote, "Bart Simpson! Are you Breaking bad up there?"😂
This would have to be a frozen opal, wish as water opals. If you freeze this opal you will be able to remove it from the tube but it can only stay in form if frozen. You’ll need to activate it with a pressure(this will make the color beautiful and a rock you can hold that isn’t in a deep freeze)
Can’t deep freeze at home😢 unless you/someone knows a way to do it?
No need to activate anything. That thing at the bottom is opal. Regular opal.
just break the tube
Does freezedrying work?
Not true at all
We need to cook,Jesse
We need to cook opal
Realistically if the tube has the same size and opening you can push it out using the same way you clean a flash chromatography column.
Take two flat washers and tack them together with one laying flat and one standing up. Lay it in the bottom of the tube and the opal will form around it. When you’re ready to remove the opal, just hook the washer and pull.
Just do one washer and a string going up the tube thats tied to the wasker the opal will form around. Then just pull the string when ready?
@@TheBassistninja that could work but I worry about the cluster cocking when the string is pulled which will just get it stuck in a different way. With the up turned washer tacked in the middle, the string or hook pulls straight up, preventing cocking.
"I'm gonna show YOU how to make one"
"You just need this one thing that most people don't have lying around"😂😂 real note, I've learned so much cool shit from this guy
If you can freeze it, you could break the tube, then cut off the unsettled material and encase the rest in resin.
That opal looks so beautiful!!! It is so cool and I def want to get the materials to make it
Create a chemically soluble material and make tubes out of it so that after the crystals are done you just dip it into specialty acid and that frees the gem.
We out here making brand name acids now
Could you heat up the tube to make it expand just a bit to let the opal fall out?
That wasn't a joke? I'm pretty sure that was a joke
Well, I feel foolish now.
@@wiktord9264 Not a joke, an old video.
@@strangetaste824 what did we learn?
well the issue is if they do get hot enough to expand that wouldn’t make it only expand outwards. it would expand inwards as well.
So glad opal is my birthstone! So beautiful!
So lucky. I absolutely adore opal. To me it beats diamonds hands down every time. I finally got my first black opal three years ago and even though it is somewhat small I find myself just staring at it getting lost in pattern and the colors in the light.
Mine too so petty ❤❤
Its mine to and its also my name❤
Lol wut? Birthstone?
Wtf is that
THE JIZZ IS CRYSTALLIZING