Making Nordic Gold
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2022
- I have a bunch of copper metal that I've had sitting around, and I want to try turning it into gold.
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Nigel maxed up his chem skills and now he's moving to alchemy
Next video he's gonna start boiling pee to make gold, just you wait.
Metallurgy*
This guy's a blacksmith now
@@xamnaut9477 Auric Urea
@@pottingsoil723 Indeed!
Imagine knowing about this in medieval times. You'd be so rich from selling fake gold
youd probably be found out pretty quickly because theyd just weigh it against real gold.
You’d already be massively wealthy from being probably the only person in the word with elemental aluminium. The metal was so rare even in the 1800s, as demonstrations of wealth six pounds of it (the largest single piece produced then) were used to cap the Washington Monument, it was served as cutlery to Napoleon III’s most esteemed guests, and it sold on the market for almost double gold’s worth.
@@MyNameIs8Ball coat it around a metal of a similar weight to gold
@@MyNameIs8Ballidk if they had that kind of technology back then, if they weighed by hand it wouldn’t be terribly accurate
@@hackerbynight107 the density is different
A similar alloy, minus the zinc, is simply aluminum bronze. Which is really impressive because it retains a similar gold tone but is actually as strong as many grades of steel.
Do you know any astm grade numbers off the top of your head? Sounds interesting!
@@joshuakuehn I do not sadly but its a fairly commonly used alloy for certain applications, so finding it shouldnt be hard.
So you’re telling me I can make a gold m1911 but it won’t start looking like shit if I accidentally scratch it? TIME TO BECOME A DRUG LORD
Aluminum bronze is bad ass
@@deeznuts23yearsago sadly I don't think that it's the most machinable alloy. But yes you absolutely could probably an entire gun minus the barrel and steel required components
Thanks for the tutorial, i'm cooking nordic gold for tonight.
How was the color
Nigel should make german silver, too, just to fill out his "fake precious metals named after geographic locations" collection
Wouldn't German silver be a 5 Reichsmark coin..?
@Transphobes hate me ah yes, the fake precious metal, FRENCH FRIES
@@neeharika422 easier to make than mining for real fries.
Or Nazi gold
Ich bin froh, dass Leute so einen gefallen an unserem Land zeigen 🇩🇪🇩🇪
I swear at this point Nigel's catchphrase should just be,
"So I blasted it with a blowtorch"
Anything : exists
Nile: so i blasted it with a blowtorch
Nigel solves his problems with a blowtorch
Nigel solves his problems with a blowtorch
Nigel solves his problems with a blowtorch
And he never has the same problem twice!
So anyways I started blasting
Surely, "This honestly worked a lot better than I expected"?
"There are a couple of children that I forgot to dispose of in my basement and according to the data I hacked online the FBI will probably raid my house in a week or so, so instead of waiting around, I blasted the children with a blowtorch."
"The Tabletop Furnace Company"- I love that there is a company whose mission is to make smelting and foundry work something anyone can just do in their kitchen
We truly live in the future
This takes the saying:
"Everything that glitters is not gold" to a whole new level.
Spunjbawb
The Merchant of Venice, nice
i learned that in highschool.
All that glitters is not gold
“I’ll close the lid and let it cook for a bit”
Ah, melted copper: my favourite dish
lol
Just like momma used to make
I love eating melted copper
Put some salt end pepper end voila your nice soupe
I'm glad I know now the recipe
Little tip: If you're adding zinc to a melt where aluminium is also being used, wrap the zinc in a little parcel of aluminium foil, that should help you get the zinc deep into your melt and hopefully help stop the zinc from fuming too much
@@TMinusRecords Nah the zinc will melt under the other liquid metal rather than on top so there's basically no oxygen to form zinc oxide fumes
@@MichaelMacGyver yeah but putting something in that can trap air, no matter how temporarily, doesn't sound like a bright idea.
But then it wouldn't look quite as cool on video 😁
@@Hirosjimma your saying it doesn't sound like a bright idea but have you ever done it? Don't assume unless you've tried
@@jessegrzanowicz1034 that same fallacy could be used to defend eating wild bats, and we all know how that ended.
2:29 is this how horror sounds are made
Could have just got a load of 10c, 20c and 50c coins from the euro zone, we use Nordic gold for the golden coins
That completely defeats the purpose of making it himself... It's like saying he could've just gotten a grape soda from the store instead of making one from plastic gloves in that video.
Destroying valid currency is illegal in many regions.
@@DraconaiAuracto farting too
@@DraconaiAuracto who enforces it?
Unless you are melting down truckloads repeatedly, no one will come after you.
And into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life. One Ring to rule them all.
Then he blasted it with a blowtorch.
He is the type of guy who would say "So anyway, I made the ring of Souron"
@@AniketKumar-lw6su No, that's NileGreen
@@notme8232 same diff (jk)
@@AniketKumar-lw6su magic and all
an important note from a metalworker: zinc fumes are very dangerous! it can easily poison you if you breath them in, and it’s a hell of a nasty ride getting through even a low grade zinc sickness. any zinc alloys should be treated carefully with plenty of ventilation as soon as heat is applied, as zinc really like to spatter out of alloys
It looks like he had the entire furnace in his fume hood. So no fumes would have escaped.
I don't why he didn't add in charcoal. I always do with filthy lead.
when i was younger i melted down anything i could find. lead, zinc, copper, tin... I don't know how I made it past 16
@@Anklejbiter did you keep the molten metal?
@@Anklejbiter because if you did and melted all of it together then it would be a frankenstein monster of an alloy
This video has all the conbinatory fun of a cooking show, with the dangerous materials of a science show.
Dude this guy is so creative in his ideas!
Creative?
What do you mean? Nordic gold wasn’t his idea
@@es-zw3mg exactly
This is amazing. Just mixing some random metals and turning it into gold looking alloy, not gonna lie, if this video was on reverse, I wouldn't have believed it because it looks like real gold
This is a typical metal for coins. I think it's used in all gold colored Euro coins.
well these are not random metals -- specific ones, in strict proportion to each other.
Most European Union small change is made from Nordic gold
@Don't read profile photo i can't say I hate you, but o boi, what a journey.
I wish he compared it to real gold.
"It of course isn't actually real gold." Nigel, just admit, you're an alchemist.
Next he's about to become the real life full metal alchemist lol.
In that case I hope he doesn't have a younger brother lying around...
@@springtrap8434 tfw no Olivier Armstrong wife
@@ortezac.5339 bruh what do you mean "lying around" like some toy lol
@@seronymus Lmfao
Nordic Gold is a brass alloy with some aluminium and tin added.
It would be very cool to see other mixes, like sterling silver, black bronze, rose gold and so on :)
Sterling silver at least is easy. That's just silver with a bit of copper. Back when pennies were made of copper we'd make our own sterling silver for casting. 1 troy oz. of pure silver and a new (copper) penny, with a little bit nipped off. Someplace in storage I've still got a couple pounds of silver from those days. Hope I haven't thrown it out by mistake.
"This is a bunch of copper metal, and I want to try turning it into gold."
Oh, so we're doing alchemy today, alright
yay, alchemy
That was my first thought too 🤣
damn, i left my philosopher's stone in my other pants...
Lol
Euros coins are made out of Nordic gold
So, apparently it's called "Nordic Gold", because the alloy was invented for some Swedish coins (by a lady working for a Finnish company). It's also used in Polish coins, and some Euro coins. It doesn't really tarnish, and it has some anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties. So... just a decent alloy for coins, basically. Neat.
Thank you! I was wondering about this 😊
in theory you could coat gold coins in this and it would be less likely to rub away ?
2:09 👌good soup
2:30 that was magical
Summarize this channel in one quote: "And it honestly turned out better than I expected."
It literally read out in Nilered's voice in my head
so what we have here...
That’s called publication bias
Facts though!
Either that or “I think it's pretty cool.”
He really became the alchemist with this one.
Yes😂
Technically, it's metallurgy.
Without even the circle 😂
@@g30ffm0rt0n Considering alchemy's history, that distinction ranges form minor to entirely inconsequential. He made a bronze alloy to fake being gold, aesthetically. That's about a third of all alchemy.
Next up: making gold out of piss.
I like how Nile talks about his scientific experiments like he's cooking them lol
I thought Cu + Zn was called brass... which, incidentally, does have a golden colour
Copper and Zinc is brass
The main difference is that Tin and Aluminum was added into the mix and that the metal percentages are different
Nordic gold has around 89% Copper and 5% Zinc while actual brass has around 67% Copper and 33% Zinc
@@TBiscuit1 You seem fairly knowledgeable about this, so I figured I'd ask. Does Nile adding Tin to a Copper alloy make this a partly bronze material? Or is it more heterogenous and the materials aren't a "bronze centric" combination?
Brass is basically knock off gold anyways.
heavy, soft, corrosion resistant, conductive, yellow, etc. It's just fake gold
@@steptimusheap8860 No it's not lol totally different crystalline structure, alloy, still corrodes so much more easily than gold
@@cyberhaggis pyrite has a different crystal structure too, doesn't mean it's not also fake gold
Looked it up:
This alloy is used in coins (like the bigger Euro cents), and it can be described as somewhere between bronze and brass or a combination of both
Actually it's a type of aluminium bronze I believe.
Can the metal be used in other applications besides coins? For example making a cool novelty fake sword? Just curious.
@@williamburnett3660 Absolutely! Since it's a type of brass alloy it's possible to make it develop a nice black(ish) patina with proper chemical treatment. I'd recommend using it only for the sword's handle though, the blade should be either steel or something that resembles steel.
@@CoolKoon It contains zinc, which makes it a brass, but also tin which makes it bronze, and aluminium that makes it aluminium bronze. Technically it's just a "copper alloy", but it has the ingredients of both bronze and brass, which is why I described it as a combination of both
"I call it, bronze and brass"
"More like belong in the trash"
What's your hobby?
Nile: Cooking
What do you cook?
Nile: Metals
Can you make a nice copper dish my fine good sir?
That's metal af
@@Hestirix_plays Yeah sure, Any Liquids? We don’t serve water
Nile: Meth
Nile: copper is good food.
if the Zinc is burned off why even add it? The vaporization temperature of zinc (about 1600 ° F) lower then the melting point of copper
Much of the zinc is dissolved into the molten copper and remains trapped. The rest boils away as we saw.
Here in europe some Euro coins (0,10€, 0,20€ and 0,50€) are still made out of Nordic Gold
Still? They always were
2:15 Forbidden Twinkie
If all content was like this on youtube. No bullshit. straight to the case. actually doing what title says, and you don´t drag it out with a lot of crap.
Respect.
I know right?!
it used to be like that in the past, then the corporate dipshits ruined it
So A) wtf is the spatula made of? The one you used to mix the molten metals without it melting as well.
B) How do you clean it after the fact?? Can't quite rinse it in water or anything like that.
I feel like my questions are more metallurgy questions than they are chemistry. Lol
I am very much impressed by your Passion for the experiments which tell us something new each time , we watch your work
He makes chemistry loveable
I think that's his main goal😉
This is how youtube should be
“My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lame Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87111.”
@@Cay9z If you mean "How" then you are spitting true facts my friend
@@GameShack2006 Its a typo sorry it was not meant to be the slut girl word
I've seen other Nordic golds, but really like the color here. So I've got to ask, How much of each metal was used in this alloy?
If he followed the standard formula, 89% copper, 5% aluminum, 5% zinc, 1% tin.
@@RedwoodRhiadra true, I'm just not sure that it was the standard formula, and I've seen people recommending other ratios before.
@Casey Riley With other ratios it isn't Nordic Gold.
I'm guessing his is a bit short on zinc, since most of it appeared to go up as zinc oxide fumes/particles.
@@ParadigmUnkn0wn It looks like a lot, but it's probably a very tiny amount.
alchemists in middle ages: this is what we were seeking for so many years
I don't think the alchemists would be satisfied with a method to make fake gold by using aluminium, a material which was more expensive than real gold back then.
Love this channel 🎉🎉🎉
Copper pipes are so lovely to work with, the colour of them after you clean the oxidation with sandpaper is the best colour!
I agree! I work with copper plumbing fittings, and the adapters that are cleaned for hospital use are so, so shiny, and the best colour! The complete opposite of black malleable fittings, which is just dirty iron.
Man, Nile’s gold production has really upgraded
I remember when you were doing this with paint cans and torches :3
Wow what a true fan your are
I always wondered if you had to actually stir the mix when alloying, at last I can see the actual process, thank you!
1:22, 75mL of aluminum metal
1:03 the forbidden orange juice
I was thinking that lol
“Hi guys! This is my personal gold recipe!”
2:30 portal sound
Is no one going to talk about how Nigel always has the most unusual things “lying around?” 😂
Thats just the perks of being a professional chemist lol
Nigel should do a whole series on nothing but high temp reactions and metallurgical chemistry.
i like how u arranged them in the same way when u made actual gold bars
you make everything sound so easy
Im still in shock that this man just woke up and decided to convert copper into gold
thats easy
@Don't read profile photo ok. 😂
@The Orange Knight bots fucking bots 😂
Well, he did just happen to have some lying around.
1:13 Nile actually wanted to show us the creation of the first Black Hole image
Actually it's a kind of brass, like all alloys made out of copper and zinc. Classic brass would be 66% copper and 34% zinc, yet does sometimes contain other metals, e.g. aluminum. If the main two metals are copper and tin, it would be bronze instead but here only very little tin is added. Nordic gold is used quite often for coins (e.g. 10, 20 and 50 Euro cents are made out of it), because it has a distinct color, is very durable and it's very unlikely to cause allergic reactions.
It's no wonder that Nordic gold has become such a sought-after material in the world of precious metals
NileRed and BigstackD Casting is the crossover we all need
*Today we are making nordic gold coins with BigstackD Casting*
That collab is actually pretty fun to watch
1:38
That shit looks like some kind of divine fire or some shit, damn.
🤨
"Copper metal tthat's a casing from a STG44 Bullet"
i love this type of content
This guy makes things that seem impossible to make even if he used magic.
@Don't read profile photo ok
godamit ur gettin spammed in the replies
@@theboss-by5gd best thing to do is to report those spams brother 👍
Yeah specially with the Jesus privellages
@Don't read profile photo I read it man
Can we just appreciate how much time he puts in to add in good captions
It's a 3-minute video...
There's only 354 words...
Sure beats the auto captions that go all "Alpha Kenny Boy."
Don't read that out loud.
It's easy when you read from a script, you just upload your text file.
@@jorionedwards i see what you did there
Seeing metals melting and an alloy being made is one of the most satisfiyng things to watch
Love how nilered shorts combines the professionalism of nilered with the sheer chaos of nileblue making the ultimate shorts channel
The sound of hot metal being cooled by water is so satisfying, kinda like bacon sizzling on a hot pan.
Yeah and the way the metals instantly melt when added into the beaker(or wutver thats called lol)
@@aniruudhh I believe that it's called a crucible.
It sounds like the screaming souls of the damned
I made some Nordic Gold for the first time recently, I'll be making more of it because it is very nice to cast with and make all kinds of novelty items and jewelry for only a small fraction of the cost of real gold.
It tarnishes.
@@glasslinger A few coats of clear lacquer should preserve it for a good while
That sound when u placed it into the water thooo
Thanks dude
my dad and mum owned a jewelry shop and all the jewelries they used to sell was my father's designs and whenever he had to melt gold or silver I was always watching him melting it cause it was my fav part 🥰🥰🥰 this video brought back memories 😆😆
Otherwise known as Aluminum Bronze, a substitute for gold in Minecraft Tinkers Construct when making certain things.
Wasn't it Aluminum Brass?
Aluminum bronze is a real thing people make and sell. It's not a minecraft invention.
@@tsm688 Don't be silly. Next thing you'll tell me is that you can make charcoal in a furnace in real life.
@@TacComControl Emeralds don't pop out of the rock table cut!
0:03 sounds like the sound that plays when a teammate takes your stack in dota 2
2:30 sounds so magical
I love watching metal melt! And the pouring bit… something so satisfying!
I was so so astonished to see the metal copper melt. That was so satisfying. Thank you for showing this to us.
It looks really similar to actual gold, it's so cool!!
NileRed is the only person that could make a interesting tutorial on how to make a soup of metals
Just a suggestion: packing the furnace with as little airspace as possible with go a long way to avoid getting O2 into the metl, and when you add the zinc, it won't fume so badly, also if you soak (leave it in the furnace after it's liquefied) your melt any longer than needed you are extending that fuming more than needed. In some cases this can actually cause problems with zinc loss and a change in properties for high-zinc castings.
Impressive how he always survives his new projects 👀
ye i keep dying whenever i try this
This is a awesome how to your own Nordic gold video! 💕💞
2:30 That is an amazing sound holy shit
Now I know the meaning of :- " everything that glitters is not gold "
Like pyrite
Stairway??? Led Zep
But gold glitters too 😐
@@RossiaIsNoMore it doesn't, not really. It's a very dull colour
1:57 you make this how cheap no I'm joking u say "cook" that's melting and burns
let him cook
Like brass with a few extra bits to make it special
1:35 Zinc goes crazy with the melted copper and aluminum
Eureka, can you measure its density using water displacement for volume?
And maybe compare to that real gold you surely collected off the floor one day.
@@JM-tj5qm We know it's definitely less dense than gold, we just want the exact measurements
@@wongcayven9893 google
Much less dense. Gold's density is almost identical to tungsten's. There have been some fraudulent gold bars found here and there that are heavy gold plating on a tungsten core, but that's really the only way to make that work. You could just hold one of these in your hand and tell it's not gold. Even lead is light and fluffy when compared to gold.
I also want to see what method he uses. To keep water volume to maximum accuracy my first guess would be pouring from one graduated cylinder to another that already contains the material.
@@garyha2650 Graduated cylinders aren't generally regarded as very precise.
I guess a better way to get maximum accuracy would be to replace the cylinder you're pouring from with a volumetric pipette, or a burete. You're still using a second cylinder, though, and that could introduce some inaccuracies, but it's probably better than using two cylinders.
0:08
NileRed: Says Furnace
me: Minecraft?
Nice content bro, keep it up👌
Hey nile loved your content for years i really wish there were more games with reactions as a mechanic of the game and more just hitting craft and learning on your channel will help me try and work something into my game even if it isnt a full periodic table of elements
Now we just need him to make dwarven metal
2:25 It looked like it shrunk so much
Cause it did
How about 'Amazon Gold'?
A gold/silver/copper alloy with a special trick.
On casting, the alloy looks much like silver, but when treated with a mixture of acids, magic happens!
The acids strip away silver and copper, leaving a spongy* surface of pure gold.
Rubbing the surface with a burnisher collapses the gold sponge, leaving a thick film of nearly pure gold!
For many years, archeologists thought that the gold films were electro-plated!
*Nano-scale porosity...it doesn't look like Gold until is is rubbed, rubbing fuses the particles to solid metal.
Brass is an alloy made primarily of copper and The proportions of copper and zinc can vary, resulting in different kinds of brass. Basic modern brass is 67% copper and 33% zinc............
Next video:
So i got some Plutoniun 9... and i wanna try to make a Nuclear Bomb
Thank you for this tutorial my family enjoyed the meal
Same! They fell on the ground this time! Did yours too?
That sound when he dipped the "gold" in water was satisfying
Nice pour man!
That cooling down sound is cool sounding
I swear if I had the instruments, I would do this daily. It seems so fun!
I love your videos bro, I know shorts make more money, I just wish you’d do more full length videos as those tend to be my favorite and I watch them multiple times and all the way through. Please *Nile* if you read this, please do more!
Actually shorts make quite a bit less than full length videos, however it’s obviously a lot easier to make a 2 minute video than a full length one, also shorts get a ton more views typically. Overall just treat them like extra little videos to tide you over to the next full video.
@@jerrywinstrom I agree with that notion, but RUclips is actually giving an incentive $ to do the shorts as they are trying to compete with tiktok and other social media platforms. And it’s obviously worked. And the reason I posted this is it seems very rare he does a full length breakdown/ video. And I really enjoys those especially when it comes to chemistry. I still watch all of the shorts and enjoy them.
Slag sinks, dross floats. So you don't "scrape off some slag from the surface."
2:30 Releasing Souls In The Ancient Gold