Silver nitrate crystals for me cost about as much as buying silver and nitric acid and dissolving the silver. But my country doesn't allow me to purchase nitric acid, so it's invaluable if I want to make silver crystals. I would otherwise first have to spend a couple of hours making the acid then a couple of hours dissolving silver, in-between allowing the electrolyte to cool down I would lose a whole day just making electrolyte.
The process is refining the silver to make it 99.999 fine. The process removes all the impurities so that you are left with just pure silver. Precious metal refiners do make a living doing this they either charge a fee for the process or take a percentage of the metal depending on the arrangement with their customer.
For instance, jewelers have their scrap metals, off cuts, and mistake pieces refined. They need to know what karat their metals are to ensure purity when they sell their piece. Too much solder, for instance, can lower the purity and make the metal softer so they can't just melt all their scrap together and roll out a new sheet. Refining takes out all the solder, copper, and other impurities so that the fine metal can be mixed again to get the desired karat
Hello mate this is very interesting. This process doesnt actually grow silver ie make more than it eats on the anode? Or is there a return x amount of electrode eaten is multiplied by a factor of y?
Hi. It doesn't make more than it takes from the anode. The process is used to purify the silver in the anode by removing impurities. Copper impurities will trade places with silver in the electrolyte, and platinum group metals or gold particles will be trapped in the filter. Thanks for watching
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How much silver nitrate crystal do you use when making a solution.
I use 50 grams silver nitrate crystals to every 250ml water. 👍
@3-2preciousmetalrecycling excellent thank you!!!
How much did the solution cost? Is this profitable?
Silver nitrate crystals for me cost about as much as buying silver and nitric acid and dissolving the silver. But my country doesn't allow me to purchase nitric acid, so it's invaluable if I want to make silver crystals. I would otherwise first have to spend a couple of hours making the acid then a couple of hours dissolving silver, in-between allowing the electrolyte to cool down I would lose a whole day just making electrolyte.
I also recover the silver from the electrolyte once it becomes over contaminated with copper
What is the electrolyte that u used???
Silver nitrate crystals dissolved in distilled water. 👍
@@3-2preciousmetalrecycling only problem in canada is how expensive this stuff is. even to make it is impossible
Hi i don’t understand ar u making more silver or u just make it 999 trug this process? Like could u make a living whit this ?
The process is refining the silver to make it 99.999 fine. The process removes all the impurities so that you are left with just pure silver. Precious metal refiners do make a living doing this they either charge a fee for the process or take a percentage of the metal depending on the arrangement with their customer.
For instance, jewelers have their scrap metals, off cuts, and mistake pieces refined. They need to know what karat their metals are to ensure purity when they sell their piece. Too much solder, for instance, can lower the purity and make the metal softer so they can't just melt all their scrap together and roll out a new sheet. Refining takes out all the solder, copper, and other impurities so that the fine metal can be mixed again to get the desired karat
@@3-2preciousmetalrecycling now i understand this better, it’s very interesting love you’r content 👍🏽 thank you .
Hello mate this is very interesting. This process doesnt actually grow silver ie make more than it eats on the anode?
Or is there a return x amount of electrode eaten is multiplied by a factor of y?
Hi. It doesn't make more than it takes from the anode. The process is used to purify the silver in the anode by removing impurities. Copper impurities will trade places with silver in the electrolyte, and platinum group metals or gold particles will be trapped in the filter.
Thanks for watching