I love your addition of the clock to your time lapse shots, I only wish that you would use a larger one as it is sometimes very difficult to make out the hands on the dial of your current clock. Thanks for the stunning entertainment, Sreetips!
@ICU2B4UDO lead plating would add a layer of lead to the outside of the bar, hence a lead impurity, I'd suggest you actually read the original comment and understand what's being said before you try to act superior to someone else.
This kind of thing had been done before. When the Nazis invaded Copenhagen in 1940, George de Hevesy hid two of his friends' Nobel Prize gold medals by dissolving them this way. Years later, after the Nazis were defeated, he came back to the lab to find that the nobody had touched the unknown chemical reaction, so he precipitated the gold out of solution and returned it to the Nobel committee. They re-cast the medals from the original gold, and that's the story of how Max von Laue and James Franck were re-awarded their Nobel Prize medals in 1952.
@@TheSpooniest I must admit I was a bit worried we had no video this week end, but I think I saw him saying he was taking a day or 2 off to rest because the baby sitting was relentless.
Not going lie...I'm beside myself as to why you'd undo that beautiful bar. Such an achievement to not only accumulate 51.5 oz, but to have it in a single Suburbly refined Bar!😮
It's nerve racking to do an experiment with 50 ounces of gold. It's not like you can just go to bed while $100K is just chilling in your shop. The drive back home from the safety deposit box sounds scary enough.
It is how the new rich do physics. They didn't have to work hard on their first $100,000.00 earned by themselves in their lives being from a family member of a random equivalent of billionaire parents. Don't forget these students couldn't figure out how to balance a budget so they need loan forgiveness.
@lawrencejelsma8118 won't argue on the rew rich part, old money fuels today's 'self-made millionaires' after all, but in alot of cases those requesting loan forgiveness aren't the millionaire's sons and daughters types but rather people who took out loans to get degrees after being sold the idea that a degree will open doors only to find their chosen sector is very closed off where you need to know people in the buisness already to get even a microseconds notice let alone a job and as a result have a worthless degree they will never be able to use. Aka people who can't afford a degree level course take loans thinking whatever job they land in future from their new degree will allow them to pay off the loan eventually only to find that the job never materialises and they're now saddled with hundreds of thousands in debt that only gets larger year on year as they fail to even break even.
@@thegreatestdane8978 ... Actually check the facts again. The student debt forgiveness is given to a wealthier student loan students (GOP house Republicans Marjorie T. Greene statistics from her literate sources). Joe Biden is a career politician owning a personal 7 mansion inherited estate of his father's wealth in the 1960s from the shipping industry. The students being forgiven of student debt are generally rich students in family wealth. They over spent in Ivy League schools to look sub par compared to their wealthy parents. Money of debt relief is only for a lucky few of 13 percent of all students pushing a rich 87-98 percent of family wealth students into the top 2 percent of the wealthy rich people. Anyone whose family wealth, especially in Ivy League Universities, not in the top family wealth of 13 percent are not considered any student debt forgiveness. Bernie Sanders is just trying to liberate the top 13 percent into the top 2 percent wealth classes.
When Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from taking them. After the war, he precipitated the gold out of the acid, and the Nobel Society recast Franck and von Laue's awards from the original gold.
@@sreetips That answers my question... : ) (Which was "but what for all that?" I mean, nitric acid isn't free on tap, and then they don't give electricity for free every other week, do they? ;-)
Ah Chief, I would have given you 120 Large in Fedbux for that gorgeous door stop! Still, I'm loving your video creativity and incredible commitment to the experiment and channel. Watching all those colours appearing via surface plasmon resonance was awesome - including the royal blue. If you want to buy lab grade chloroauric acid crystals to make gold nanoparticles or for industrial use they cost $350-$400 per gram! But Kevin ... please look after yourself and get some sleep!!!
A thought came to me just before you placed the paper towel over the beaker. Have you ever taken the filters from the fume cupboard and treated them to see if there are any precious metals in them? I suspect there will be something, but I'd be curious to see how much, or how little is there
What a wonderful video, i feel it was made just for me lol . I just returned from prospecting and got to watch this .I can't believe it was a week long job to do this wow , that's commitment to teaching . I had a heck of a laugh when you got to the end and tried getting it out of the beaker with a plastic spoon , so sorry Thank you sir , you never cease to amaze me. Cant wait for the rest of this. Cheers
Thanks Arne. If I can sleep on the ship, with the five inch 54, banging away (my rack was directly under the gun mount), then I think I can snore away through just about anything!
You are welcome. Given the purity of the sample, I expected it to go into solution in a quarter of the time. I would imagine your hackles were up for the several days that it took, and if you are having to put up with a dense population of raucous cicadas in your neighborhood...it’s exhausting to think about, let alone do. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
Man I was crying seeing this beautiful bar being dissolved… But I understand why… not liquid enough. Would be interesting to see if a metal detector could pickup the gold in this form. Anyway thanks for the video… ✌🏻👍🏻🇨🇦
You can use the dessicator bag method to dry chloroauric acid and other heat sensitive chemicals. Nurdrage has a video about it. Its effective but takes long time to dry 100%.
Unsure of the end result here. There are many easier (and better) ways of safely storing gold, from burying it next to your garden tap (to avoid metal detectors) to casting into household objects, such as drawer handles or bathroom hooks. But I get that you're a chemistry channel rather than a casting channel, so what you are doing here is on topic. Although the fact you aren't merely dissolving it in aqua-regia and like Max von Laue and James Franck's nobel medals to keep them from the Nazis suggests you are trying to find a means of transporting it long distances on the down-low. I look forward to seeing the rest of the series. :)
In a "Fanta orange" soda bottle. It just weighs a few kilograms more. Yes, I thought of the Nonle prize winners as well. At that time a brilliant idea of true scientists.
@@sreetips Noted your use of the word "Mostly". ;) and if I were to be honest, "OMG, he just destroyed a 50oz bar of gold!" is a good way to get noticed, nice work.:D
I’ll get it done to the very end. And it will be melted back into bright shiny pure gold metal. I’m just a little tired from old age. And I have a life outside of my hobby; refining precious metals and making RUclips videos!
Thought I would share a thought about a future experiment: For your impure silver shot that you run through the silver cell, I wonder if it’s possible to remove a significant amount of that copper (which appears to be on the outside of the granules) with an acid boil? Some options I think you could try are: 1. Boiling the granules in vinegar + salt. 2. Boiling the granules in citric acid + salt. 3. Boiling the granules in piranha solution. 4. Boiling the granules in a very dilute nitric acid. If this works, and you can remove all or most of the copper from your silver shot, I think your anode filters will last longer, plus your electrolyte should be reusable for a longer time. Anyways, it would maybe be cool for a video! Thanks for all your videos, they are great, and we all appreciate your work to share them!
Right? I was all set to break it up and put it in that jar and be done with it. Then my heart sank as I felt it completely reject penetration with the spoon and the steel knife.
So hard to watch the Perfection of the 50 oz gold bar melt away…. I understand that it’s better to have it in smaller increments to sell it off, rather than the one lump sum
hello...your channel and teachings are encouraging...i know that this art isn't really tought and not to much writings on the craft but thank you i plan to learn it as well as you, hopefully 🛸🕊️
As you said, it's a salt, and hard like salt is. I wonder if you can melt it, as you can with table salt and cast it into little gold chloride bars, or just agitate it constantly as it crystalizes, so it is broken up, again kind of like table salt.
Hey Streetips. I started watching you because like many of us viewers, I would love to be the guy to handle the amount of precious medals you do 😅. The thing is, my life is full of day to day struggles I proudly face for My loving wife and kids and I don't know if I'll ever have the time to submit myself to any of my hobbies. All in all, if there ever be a chance, I would love to work on your team or shadow you jus to be a part of the tranquility and peace us viewers get from your work.❤ Peace and blessings 🙏🏾
YOU ARE ONE BRAVE MAN. I CAN'T WAIT FOR PART 2. I'M GUESSING YOU EITHER BREAK THE GLASS OR RE- HYDRATE IT. Im curious about what the weight is, it must be really dense like lead.
The volcano in Antarctica is doing the same thing, spewing gold crystals daily. There are some cool articles about it. Just melt huge blocks of ice into a sluice 😂
Wow, what a timelapse, brilliant viewing… I wonder the amount of precious metals contained in the spatters in your fume hood, the reclaiming of the gold in those mists and spatters could make for an interesting video. 👍🏻
Only Shreetips would have a lazy brick this size laying about and ballz big enough to "experiment " on it. Needs a wheelbarrow to carry his knackers in.
@@apveening Yes I remember those episodes for sure. But those were taken past the point of crystallization and straight to burnt. Needless to say I love the willingness to try something new and bold. Definitely interested in seeing how this plays out :)
Hi Screetips. Can you try vacuum assisted drying? I think it should speed up the drying process significantly. Just make sure to put an intermediate jar with some filter paper between the vacuum pump and the breaker with the dissolved gold, to catch gold mist. Also, to get gold out of the beaker, try flexible beaker Teflon liner inserts that you can easily yank out from the beaker. Cheers from NYC!🎉
It's always interesting to watch you melt gold! It would be interesting to see your performance in refining copper to three nines and alloy ingot levels
A Bold experiment! You might try redissolving what you have, then boiling it down to the syrup stage -- at that point put in a refrigerator overnight and *most* of the chloroauric acid will crystallize out. then repeat on the supernatant.
It's worth more in smaller bars. Not a lot of people have 120K on hand to pay, but a lot of people have 120 on hand. It's called fractional gold and why smaller bars are more expensive pr ozt than large bars.
120k experiment. I always wonder how much of your gold is going out of that fume hood from those evaporations. Losing a small portion of +100k is still a lot of money. For my own sanity, I would just remelt and recast into smaller bars.
I know the vapor deposits on the paper towel were dramatic but just as plating only deposits a thin layer on the target metal, that plating is tens times as thin. The crusts contain 100x as much as a light plating on metal, they are also 1000x more packed with atoms, ions, etc. Not to worry, losses to air and splattered boil sputter dripping from the rim of the vapor lid are not just minor but expected in casual chemistry and cost can and should be written off of any accounting.
@@Kerhuz Only if the cost of fiat dollars goes down, then of course that cost, incremental as it is will increase. Fiat is what all the world is doing, it is an easy way to "enhance" the pool of dollars (pick your currency) with fresh printed ones. A finite pool can not be increased by 10x 100x or 1000x without the value of individual notes going down. The sin of fiat notes rather than a bi metal economy is the culprit here and always will be the fault of any scheme designed to "make money better" in this fashion. Static is not the answer any more than adding zeros to the number really increases the value. A common method, world wide is a central bank. Look into what all that actually entails please.
Melting point of chloroauric acid is published as 254 degrees Celsius (489F). If your hotplate was turned up all the way there, you may have driven off all of the acid much earlier than you think you did, and the liquid you were seeing was just melted chloroauric.
@@PapaKryptoss I can appreciate evry video Sreetips makes. If you don't want to watch it, why did you? That comment wasn't only disrespectful but also heartfull.
Got a good nights rest. Now Mrs sreetips is on me to get her GOLD back for her. We went to an estate sale this morning. Bought another two grand in scrap gold.
انت رجل تستحق المتابعه وتقدير لا اجد رجل اكثر منك صدق في قنوات اليتيوب كم يحتاج غاز ثاني اوكسيد الكبريت من الوقت الترسيب لتر من اكوريجا مذاب بها عشر غرامات ذهب ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Sir you got serious guts and knowledge to dissolve that amount of gold .. my heart got scared just looking at that scale saying 1600 grams … keep doing the exciting work … love and greetings from India
i thought you were setting up a piranha solution but nope aqua regia ... not sure which i prefer to watch nor which is most effective but regardless i do love the look of pure gold in solution
I like the idea of crystalized chloroauric acid, im excited to see what comes from it. I just don't know how likely crystallization will be. It looks like alot of tar in there but I assume it's not tar right? It should be nearly pure gold ?
Should have dropped some stannous on the paper towel to confirm it was gold, could just be the yellowish tint of conc HCL evaporating. To further evap to a crystal form you could add a quicker evaporating solvent such as ISO or Acetone to help pull the remaining water and acid. Ideally you’d use an evap dish which is generally larger in diameter and a shallow wall as the tall beaker wall creates a humid environment at the bottom that takes ages for the moisture to make its way into the atmosphere unless airflow is blowing directly down into the beaker.
From this point your best bet is to dissolve the solids by adding the minimal amount of distilled water and heat then pour it into a larger flat Corning ware and add some alcohol or maybe acetone, but do your due diligence to make sure what solvent is compatible then evap on low heat. The more surface area exposed to the surface the easier this will be. It’s much easier to work with a 1/4” or less of crystals over a large surface area vs something thick that needs a hammer to break up. IMO
No, I don’t think that the gold salt would reduce to metallic gold. It must first be rehydrated/re-dissolved, then precipitated out of solution before trying to melt it. I believe trying to melt the gold salt would cause gold to literally go up in smoke and cause massive losses of the gold. There’s no easy way to get pure gold.
sree, please update your fume hood, put some new white paint and some new under, would make the presentation of the video alot better, love your videos as allways sree! just some advice what i would like to se :) thanks! :) keep it up
I don't know what kind of house Mr. Sreetips owns, but gold can be hidden very easily by building it into a wall next to steel rebars. A metal detector will detect metal, of course, but along the entire length of the wall where the steel rebar runs and no one will be looking for gold there. You can also hide it in the fireplace under iron grates or behind a cast iron wall. No fireplace reaches a temperature above 1000 C for the gold to melt.
All true, but hiding the gold is not what I’m trying to do. I’m demonstrating for some of my viewers who asked about storing gold in this form. And I did it for the show.
With a bit more lab equipment you'd save a lot of tkmr and get a better result. Refluxing and using vacuum to dry product like this isnt hard or too expensive. You needed to break up thet crust, if you did it would have evaporated in half the time
OK master chief... I have just refered another amature chemist/metal refiner your way... He had a 'blob " of gold bearing metal that he tried to refine....Unsuccessfuly... I know you can help him.... I've been watching you and your videos.... You have taught me sooo much... Thanks master chief!!!! Im so greatful.... But I gotta know....and you don't have to answer if you don't want to.....but I gotta ask.....(tongue firmly planted in cheek) Sreetips???? Can you explain????
Good luck to you. I am now curious as þo if a metal detector will detect it. Dont stress out too much we all have faith in your skills. Id like to see lirhic gold attempt this with his clients gold Oh ask for a bigger clock for Xmas from mrs sreetips 😂
Definitely interesting to see this u should take a small ammount of that stuff rehydrate it then if needs filtered get that out the way n then let that sample shelf dry with paper towel over the top of it so nothing gets in get it back ti the aquaregia stage then see if letting it dry that eay forms the gold crystals ur talking about the cholor oric acid crystals
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I get your reasoning, and it's sound. Even so, man, it almost hurts to see that bar dissolve.
Hate to see it go, but love to watch it leave. These reactions are so cool
This has a "I did this so you don't have to" feel to it. Can't wait for part 2. Thank you for the content.
It definitely carries a flavor of regret with it.
Chloroauric acid is the very definition of "liquid assets".
😮😮 I'm really enjoying this series, this experiment !
You're of a dying breed, those who work until they can't work, only then take a rest.
I love your addition of the clock to your time lapse shots, I only wish that you would use a larger one as it is sometimes very difficult to make out the hands on the dial of your current clock. Thanks for the stunning entertainment, Sreetips!
Clever to think about it not being detectable by metal detectors. That’s an intelligent way to move money.
Put it in a jar meant for 'bee pollen'... no one will suspect a thing. >:]
Bee pollen, good idea.
I don't know what the end product will look like, but a Vegemite jar would be fitting too from the way it looks now.
Leave it as a gold bar Chief...I'd reconstitute it back to a gold bar then paint it lead gray!
Lead plate it 😂
@@OneOfDisease after all the time he spent refining all of that gold to such high purity, intentionally adding a lead impurity would be like a sin.
@@danmatsav ...You REALLY need to learn to READ IN CONTEXT...😒🤫🤐😴
@ICU2B4UDO lead plating would add a layer of lead to the outside of the bar, hence a lead impurity, I'd suggest you actually read the original comment and understand what's being said before you try to act superior to someone else.
All in the name of science. You got monster balls chief. That I respect regardless of the haters out there. Hats off
Thanks Mr. Sreetips for the time and capital you spent teaching us. Respect
You had some massive balls to try that on a 120k gold bar. Either taht or you knew where this is going and have a lot of confidence in yourself. :)
This kind of thing had been done before. When the Nazis invaded Copenhagen in 1940, George de Hevesy hid two of his friends' Nobel Prize gold medals by dissolving them this way. Years later, after the Nazis were defeated, he came back to the lab to find that the nobody had touched the unknown chemical reaction, so he precipitated the gold out of solution and returned it to the Nobel committee. They re-cast the medals from the original gold, and that's the story of how Max von Laue and James Franck were re-awarded their Nobel Prize medals in 1952.
@@TheSpooniest I must admit I was a bit worried we had no video this week end, but I think I saw him saying he was taking a day or 2 off to rest because the baby sitting was relentless.
In progress.
@@sreetips Glad to hear that! Hope everything will be fine.
You are always amazing with what you do! I learn so much all the time!!
Not going lie...I'm beside myself as to why you'd undo that beautiful bar. Such an achievement to not only accumulate 51.5 oz, but to have it in a single Suburbly refined Bar!😮
Mrs sreetips was not happy with me. But she knows I’ll get her gold back for her.
@sreetips lol, don't be messin with a woman and their gold.
Yeah, first time I've ever seen a man experiment with a 100k+ gold bar. Should be some good viewing.
It's nerve racking to do an experiment with 50 ounces of gold. It's not like you can just go to bed while $100K is just chilling in your shop. The drive back home from the safety deposit box sounds scary enough.
It is how the new rich do physics. They didn't have to work hard on their first $100,000.00 earned by themselves in their lives being from a family member of a random equivalent of billionaire parents. Don't forget these students couldn't figure out how to balance a budget so they need loan forgiveness.
@@lawrencejelsma8118 Lmao he deleted his comment...
@lawrencejelsma8118 won't argue on the rew rich part, old money fuels today's 'self-made millionaires' after all, but in alot of cases those requesting loan forgiveness aren't the millionaire's sons and daughters types but rather people who took out loans to get degrees after being sold the idea that a degree will open doors only to find their chosen sector is very closed off where you need to know people in the buisness already to get even a microseconds notice let alone a job and as a result have a worthless degree they will never be able to use.
Aka people who can't afford a degree level course take loans thinking whatever job they land in future from their new degree will allow them to pay off the loan eventually only to find that the job never materialises and they're now saddled with hundreds of thousands in debt that only gets larger year on year as they fail to even break even.
@@thegreatestdane8978 ... Actually check the facts again. The student debt forgiveness is given to a wealthier student loan students (GOP house Republicans Marjorie T. Greene statistics from her literate sources). Joe Biden is a career politician owning a personal 7 mansion inherited estate of his father's wealth in the 1960s from the shipping industry. The students being forgiven of student debt are generally rich students in family wealth. They over spent in Ivy League schools to look sub par compared to their wealthy parents. Money of debt relief is only for a lucky few of 13 percent of all students pushing a rich 87-98 percent of family wealth students into the top 2 percent of the wealthy rich people. Anyone whose family wealth, especially in Ivy League Universities, not in the top family wealth of 13 percent are not considered any student debt forgiveness. Bernie Sanders is just trying to liberate the top 13 percent into the top 2 percent wealth classes.
Might be a good idea to store it as a liquid. Who's going to steal an Erlenmeyer flask full of orange liquid from a chem lab?
When Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from taking them. After the war, he precipitated the gold out of the acid, and the Nobel Society recast Franck and von Laue's awards from the original gold.
You’re a great mind sir. Love your videos
Chief: "This chonky boi isn't practical."
Also Chief: Dissolve in the least practical way for awesome timelapse.
Made for a good show
@@sreetips That answers my question... : )
(Which was "but what for all that?" I mean, nitric acid isn't free on tap, and then they don't give electricity for free every other week, do they? ;-)
Expenses for nitric and electricity come with the territory.
@@sreetips Righto, chefe! : )
...and then it's YT, and a good show always pays off, so why not? ;-)
Ah Chief, I would have given you 120 Large in Fedbux for that gorgeous door stop!
Still, I'm loving your video creativity and incredible commitment to the experiment and channel. Watching all those colours appearing via surface plasmon resonance was awesome - including the royal blue. If you want to buy lab grade chloroauric acid crystals to make gold nanoparticles or for industrial use they cost $350-$400 per gram! But Kevin ... please look after yourself and get some sleep!!!
Took Saturday off
Going for the big daddy again. Love to see your process.
I already saw the pour for that but I watched it again because it was so cool!
Man, you are putting out some awesome content.
A thought came to me just before you placed the paper towel over the beaker.
Have you ever taken the filters from the fume cupboard and treated them to see if there are any precious metals in them?
I suspect there will be something, but I'd be curious to see how much, or how little is there
There’s precious metals in there.
What a wonderful video, i feel it was made just for me lol . I just returned from prospecting and got to watch this .I can't believe it was a week long job to do this wow , that's commitment to teaching . I had a heck of a laugh when you got to the end and tried getting it out of the beaker with a plastic spoon , so sorry Thank you sir , you never cease to amaze me. Cant wait for the rest of this. Cheers
Dont make any noise folks😴
Mr Sreetips sleeping 🙂🔥😂💤
Thanks Arne. If I can sleep on the ship, with the five inch 54, banging away (my rack was directly under the gun mount), then I think I can snore away through just about anything!
@@sreetips God bless you Sreetips 🌺
@@sreetips i almost forget...I have find several coin 🌺
Soon i shall prospect for gold in a little river. I take my pan whit me🙂🌺
🙃🔥🌺
I mean c'mon, what a banger. This gets all the dopamines firing.
Wonder job as usual! Love watching these videos. I’ve never held so much gold in my hand before. Super cool stuff
Can't wait for part 2 :). This is gripping drama.
Eye candy watching that dissolve, thanks again Sreetips!! How about that inflation jump on Au!!
You are welcome. Given the purity of the sample, I expected it to go into solution in a quarter of the time. I would imagine your hackles were up for the several days that it took, and if you are having to put up with a dense population of raucous cicadas in your neighborhood...it’s exhausting to think about, let alone do. Thank you Sir!👍👍🤟
Thank you for a truly wonderful and tiring experience. May God reward you well, Professor
Good work team. Also happy orthodox Easter, we celebrate Easter this week.
Happy Easter
Man I was crying seeing this beautiful bar being dissolved… But I understand why… not liquid enough. Would be interesting to see if a metal detector could pickup the gold in this form. Anyway thanks for the video… ✌🏻👍🏻🇨🇦
I must find and test it to see if my hypothesis is correct.
You can use the dessicator bag method to dry chloroauric acid and other heat sensitive chemicals. Nurdrage has a video about it.
Its effective but takes long time to dry 100%.
You did this intentionally??!!
Never a dull moment with Sreetips, hats off! 😂
Professor Tips did it big with lesson! 50 ounces in the Lab!!!
Unsure of the end result here.
There are many easier (and better) ways of safely storing gold, from burying it next to your garden tap (to avoid metal detectors) to casting into household objects, such as drawer handles or bathroom hooks. But I get that you're a chemistry channel rather than a casting channel, so what you are doing here is on topic. Although the fact you aren't merely dissolving it in aqua-regia and like Max von Laue and James Franck's nobel medals to keep them from the Nazis suggests you are trying to find a means of transporting it long distances on the down-low.
I look forward to seeing the rest of the series. :)
In a "Fanta orange" soda bottle. It just weighs a few kilograms more. Yes, I thought of the Nonle prize winners as well. At that time a brilliant idea of true scientists.
Some viewers had asked about this. I did it mostly for the show.
@@sreetips Noted your use of the word "Mostly". ;)
and if I were to be honest, "OMG, he just destroyed a 50oz bar of gold!" is a good way to get noticed, nice work.:D
To me this is professional refining. Crazy to observe this. Your playing with more than most humans will see in their lives at one time.
I think I cooked it too long, this was my first time.
I really enjoy these series. Looking forward to the next one Mr T ✌️
I use to think you were crazy but now I am convinced.
Thank you!
@@sreetips Question. What are you going to do now and are you going to show us? If so, when?
I’ll get it done to the very end. And it will be melted back into bright shiny pure gold metal. I’m just a little tired from old age. And I have a life outside of my hobby; refining precious metals and making RUclips videos!
Thought I would share a thought about a future experiment:
For your impure silver shot that you run through the silver cell, I wonder if it’s possible to remove a significant amount of that copper (which appears to be on the outside of the granules) with an acid boil?
Some options I think you could try are:
1. Boiling the granules in vinegar + salt.
2. Boiling the granules in citric acid + salt.
3. Boiling the granules in piranha solution.
4. Boiling the granules in a very dilute nitric acid.
If this works, and you can remove all or most of the copper from your silver shot, I think your anode filters will last longer, plus your electrolyte should be reusable for a longer time.
Anyways, it would maybe be cool for a video! Thanks for all your videos, they are great, and we all appreciate your work to share them!
We don’t want salt anywhere near our silver cell
It's so fun when you try new stuff like this
It was at this point that he realized………
Right? I was all set to break it up and put it in that jar and be done with it. Then my heart sank as I felt it completely reject penetration with the spoon and the steel knife.
So hard to watch the Perfection of the 50 oz gold bar melt away…. I understand that it’s better to have it in smaller increments to sell it off, rather than the one lump sum
hello...your channel and teachings are encouraging...i know that this art isn't really tought and not to much writings on the craft but thank you i plan to learn it as well as you, hopefully 🛸🕊️
Get some sleep, droogie. I'll be here for pt 2.
You could rehydrate it just enough so that it can be poured into a smaller container.
Possibly
As you said, it's a salt, and hard like salt is. I wonder if you can melt it, as you can with table salt and cast it into little gold chloride bars, or just agitate it constantly as it crystalizes, so it is broken up, again kind of like table salt.
are you trying to avoid duties on transport fees or something? expecting them to not be able to detect it cause it's not in metallic form?
Or buried in the yard
No, some viewers asked about storing the gold in this form. So I decided to try it. Go big or go home!
But youre already at home
So I went big
Hey Streetips. I started watching you because like many of us viewers, I would love to be the guy to handle the amount of precious medals you do 😅. The thing is, my life is full of day to day struggles I proudly face for My loving wife and kids and I don't know if I'll ever have the time to submit myself to any of my hobbies. All in all, if there ever be a chance, I would love to work on your team or shadow you jus to be a part of the tranquility and peace us viewers get from your work.❤ Peace and blessings 🙏🏾
YOU ARE ONE BRAVE MAN. I CAN'T WAIT FOR PART 2.
I'M GUESSING YOU EITHER BREAK THE GLASS OR RE- HYDRATE IT.
Im curious about what the weight is, it must be really dense like lead.
Says 3.5 pounds of gold. Its hefty.
It should dissolver with a little heat and some HCl.
The volcano in Antarctica is doing the same thing, spewing gold crystals daily. There are some cool articles about it. Just melt huge blocks of ice into a sluice 😂
Wow, what a timelapse, brilliant viewing… I wonder the amount of precious metals contained in the spatters in your fume hood, the reclaiming of the gold in those mists and spatters could make for an interesting video. 👍🏻
Only Shreetips would have a lazy brick this size laying about and ballz big enough to "experiment " on it.
Needs a wheelbarrow to carry his knackers in.
All I can say is 😮😮😮! I assume the Master Chief tried a smaller scale test before going for the 50oz bar?
He did something similar accidentally (at least) once.
@@apveening Yes I remember those episodes for sure. But those were taken past the point of crystallization and straight to burnt. Needless to say I love the willingness to try something new and bold. Definitely interested in seeing how this plays out :)
No, but I should have tried with a small sample before going all in.
Hi Screetips. Can you try vacuum assisted drying? I think it should speed up the drying process significantly. Just make sure to put an intermediate jar with some filter paper between the vacuum pump and the breaker with the dissolved gold, to catch gold mist.
Also, to get gold out of the beaker, try flexible beaker Teflon liner inserts that you can easily yank out from the beaker.
Cheers from NYC!🎉
Thanks NYC!
Thank you for doing this.
i was wondering what would happen if you did that. thanks for uploading
:)
it may be a silly question but when you dissolve this 50oz bar is the liquid equel heavy?
Mass in a closed system can neither be destroyed nor created, it is still something which has that mass. Heavy syrup indeed.
Not silly, the answer is yes.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Its so beautiful.....
Too big. If I decided to trade some gold for paper to pay my bills, I didn’t want to have to trade the whole thing.
@@sreetips Of course, I just am attached to that bar.
I remember reading a short story in high school titled “The Pearl” this bar reminds me of that story.
Tips is flexing again,NICE.
It's always interesting to watch you melt gold! It would be interesting to see your performance in refining copper to three nines and alloy ingot levels
❤ the videos! We learn alot from your experiments. U r real entertainment.
Noway!!! Nice! I think I may have asked about this a few videos ago
Very Nice Color Sreetips 🏴☠️ Thank you for sharing with us 🙏 God Bless
That freaking brick is worth $129,646.22...WE'RE doing great Chief!! 😂 lol...
Stumped me! Last time I looked it was well under 1900.00 troy oz
@@anthonyrstrawbridgethen you haven’t looked in awhile, it’s around $2300/ozt of Fed Reserve Notes
A Bold experiment! You might try redissolving what you have, then boiling it down to the syrup stage -- at that point put in a refrigerator overnight and *most* of the chloroauric acid will crystallize out. then repeat on the supernatant.
The best part of dissolving a 50 ounce gold bar is that you can reform it as a 60 ounce gold bar in a few days.
Not without adding ten ounces more pure gold.
What was the purpose of this? Did I miss it in the video? Such a beautiful bar gone and turned into cement lol
He’s making gold tickets for Wonka bars.
It's worth more in smaller bars. Not a lot of people have 120K on hand to pay, but a lot of people have 120 on hand.
It's called fractional gold and why smaller bars are more expensive pr ozt than large bars.
@@nikolajwinther5955 that makes way more sense thank you for the explanation my friend
A viewer had asked about storing gold in this form. So I tried to demonstrate. But I think I over-cooked it,
@@sreetips I think the liquid is supposed to be boiled off in an inert atmosphere, like argon or something.
120k experiment.
I always wonder how much of your gold is going out of that fume hood from those evaporations.
Losing a small portion of +100k is still a lot of money.
For my own sanity, I would just remelt and recast into smaller bars.
I know the vapor deposits on the paper towel were dramatic but just as plating only deposits a thin layer on the target metal, that plating is tens times as thin. The crusts contain 100x as much as a light plating on metal, they are also 1000x more packed with atoms, ions, etc.
Not to worry, losses to air and splattered boil sputter dripping from the rim of the vapor lid are not just minor but expected in casual chemistry and cost can and should be written off of any accounting.
@@CothranMike wow thanks for the explanation! You don't know how relieved i am right now. I was convinced it could get to a considerable amount.
@@Kerhuz Only if the cost of fiat dollars goes down, then of course that cost, incremental as it is will increase. Fiat is what all the world is doing, it is an easy way to "enhance" the pool of dollars (pick your currency) with fresh printed ones. A finite pool can not be increased by 10x 100x or 1000x without the value of individual notes going down. The sin of fiat notes rather than a bi metal economy is the culprit here and always will be the fault of any scheme designed to "make money better" in this fashion. Static is not the answer any more than adding zeros to the number really increases the value. A common method, world wide is a central bank. Look into what all that actually entails please.
Melting point of chloroauric acid is published as 254 degrees Celsius (489F). If your hotplate was turned up all the way there, you may have driven off all of the acid much earlier than you think you did, and the liquid you were seeing was just melted chloroauric.
Luckily I was fearful of spattering and did not turn the hotplate on high
13:40 The worlds most expensive chocolate brownie 😂
Why not leave it in a very dense slurry form instead of completely dry?
Because this was my first time. I cooked it too long.
Why not just remelt it and pour smaller bars?
Then we lose the fun factor
It’s more about the process not the result.
Exactly. And why not just filter the dehydrate then continue with the liquid left.
Yes to me that was a waste of time and he lost money as well
@@PapaKryptoss
I can appreciate evry video Sreetips makes. If you don't want to watch it, why did you? That comment wasn't only disrespectful but also heartfull.
Thanks for doing this, I hope you read this message with a clear head that has had plenty of sleep!
Got a good nights rest. Now Mrs sreetips is on me to get her GOLD back for her. We went to an estate sale this morning. Bought another two grand in scrap gold.
@@sreetips Glad to hear it!
Oh man. You know it’s probably going to take another 4 days to get it back into metaling form. Right?
انت رجل تستحق المتابعه وتقدير لا اجد رجل اكثر منك صدق في قنوات اليتيوب كم يحتاج غاز ثاني اوكسيد الكبريت من الوقت الترسيب لتر من اكوريجا مذاب بها عشر غرامات ذهب ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Sir you got serious guts and knowledge to dissolve that amount of gold .. my heart got scared just looking at that scale saying 1600 grams … keep doing the exciting work … love and greetings from India
Thank you!
i thought you were setting up a piranha solution but nope aqua regia ... not sure which i prefer to watch nor which is most effective but regardless i do love the look of pure gold in solution
I could live off that bar for 20 years ❤
I like the idea of crystalized chloroauric acid, im excited to see what comes from it. I just don't know how likely crystallization will be. It looks like alot of tar in there but I assume it's not tar right? It should be nearly pure gold ?
Correct
When I ask if you could store it indefinitely I took your word for it. 😂
Excellent. I did it for the show.
I wonder how you scrubber works and how much metal one could recover from it.
Should have dropped some stannous on the paper towel to confirm it was gold, could just be the yellowish tint of conc HCL evaporating. To further evap to a crystal form you could add a quicker evaporating solvent such as ISO or Acetone to help pull the remaining water and acid. Ideally you’d use an evap dish which is generally larger in diameter and a shallow wall as the tall beaker wall creates a humid environment at the bottom that takes ages for the moisture to make its way into the atmosphere unless airflow is blowing directly down into the beaker.
From this point your best bet is to dissolve the solids by adding the minimal amount of distilled water and heat then pour it into a larger flat Corning ware and add some alcohol or maybe acetone, but do your due diligence to make sure what solvent is compatible then evap on low heat. The more surface area exposed to the surface the easier this will be. It’s much easier to work with a 1/4” or less of crystals over a large surface area vs something thick that needs a hammer to break up. IMO
That a good idea, I still have the paper. I can do it in the next part.
This was my first time. I over-cooked it.
Can I melt this thing down? After drying it, will it return to metal if I do not have some materials in my country?
No, I don’t think that the gold salt would reduce to metallic gold. It must first be rehydrated/re-dissolved, then precipitated out of solution before trying to melt it. I believe trying to melt the gold salt would cause gold to literally go up in smoke and cause massive losses of the gold. There’s no easy way to get pure gold.
sree, please update your fume hood, put some new white paint and some new under, would make the presentation of the video alot better, love your videos as allways sree! just some advice what i would like to se :) thanks! :) keep it up
You got cajones, experimenting with that much gold, do you lose any of it when it's re-refined?
Probably
@@sreetips All for the sake of science.
what was the point of doing this? was it worth the gold that you eventually lost?
Viewers asked, and for the show.
50 ounce is an absolute beast 😂 not many people will ever lay claim to one of those
I don't know what kind of house Mr. Sreetips owns, but gold can be hidden very easily by building it into a wall next to steel rebars. A metal detector will detect metal, of course, but along the entire length of the wall where the steel rebar runs and no one will be looking for gold there. You can also hide it in the fireplace under iron grates or behind a cast iron wall. No fireplace reaches a temperature above 1000 C for the gold to melt.
All true, but hiding the gold is not what I’m trying to do. I’m demonstrating for some of my viewers who asked about storing gold in this form. And I did it for the show.
With a bit more lab equipment you'd save a lot of tkmr and get a better result. Refluxing and using vacuum to dry product like this isnt hard or too expensive. You needed to break up thet crust, if you did it would have evaporated in half the time
OK master chief... I have just refered another amature chemist/metal refiner your way... He had a 'blob " of gold bearing metal that he tried to refine....Unsuccessfuly... I know you can help him.... I've been watching you and your videos.... You have taught me sooo much... Thanks master chief!!!! Im so greatful.... But I gotta know....and you don't have to answer if you don't want to.....but I gotta ask.....(tongue firmly planted in cheek) Sreetips???? Can you explain????
Sreetips is a meaningless word, like Kodak.
Very true..with Aqua regia it dissolves red gold..the meaning is high carat...👍👍😅🙏🙏
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Hello my good good friend 🌺
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@@Arne-ns2mw Hello Arne! Have a wonderful weekend my friend!
Thank you so much 🌺God bless you 🌺
That's some really nice Corningware also
Like the stir bar buddy I want to be like you when I grow up
God has Blessed you sir🙏🙏🙏
P.S. I dislike it when this happens.... Its so hard to get off without acid...
Good luck to you. I am now curious as þo if a metal detector will detect it. Dont stress out too much we all have faith in your skills. Id like to see lirhic gold attempt this with his clients gold
Oh ask for a bigger clock for Xmas from mrs sreetips 😂
I’ll have to find a metal detector.
What is the standard weight of bullion? Why don’t you aim for gathering enough gold and melt one of those awesome bars😮
505 comments love you bro, be carefull, safety is no accident
Definitely interesting to see this u should take a small ammount of that stuff rehydrate it then if needs filtered get that out the way n then let that sample shelf dry with paper towel over the top of it so nothing gets in get it back ti the aquaregia stage then see if letting it dry that eay forms the gold crystals ur talking about the cholor oric acid crystals
Sreetips, "Here's a lovely 50ozt gold bar!"
Alondro: 😃
Sreetips, "NOW TO MURDER IT IN ACID!!"
Alondro: