Boris Petrov - thank you very much for filming this process and then uploading it to share with us all here on RUclips - it was very nice of you! I have literally hundreds of these discs stockpiled in storage because I have always suspected that they contained precious metals of some sort. Now I know what to do with them, thanks to you!
Some cd manufacturers use silver or even gold for their reflective coatings... but most use aluminum. Now CD-R and CD-RW disc do contain silver, gold and/or other rare metals....
You could also use a 50% nitric acid solution (polycarbonate is pretty resistant to nitric acid at that concentration even heated so as to speed the reaction) which would yield silver nitrate and then you could recover the silver from the silver nitrate solution using some copper.
There is no silver in a CD. The reflective surface is made when the CD is in a vacuum chamber next to a nickle disk that is blasted with argon gas. The molecules released from the nickle target adhere to the poly-carbonate of the disc, so the coating is nickle! Plus, the melted poly fumes will kill you!
I loved the video! Ive been wondering about how much silver you would get from a small amount of discs. I enjoyed watch the solution work. Love your humor! Excellent taste,my man. Not only in humor, but in music too. I'm scrolling through these comments and seeing all this hilarious and stupid comments. If you can't read the text fast enough, practice reading more. Perfect time to put text up by the way. If anything, I would say make it a little shorter. Of course the time and energy wasn't "worth" that .1 gram of silver, but it was worth all the fun that Boris probably had. You think this is too long? Go outside and watch the sunset for the whole day. Learn patience and appreciate the process that is undergoing. This video, much like most RUclips videos, was made for fun and the pleasure of the maker who wishes to share what they had with others and to remember what they did. If you didn't enjoy what they had, don't add some useless comment that says you didn't. It just proves youre an uncultured swine who would like to be negative and make the world a worse place. And don't watch the whole video if you don't like it. That's you deciding to waste your time.
At my old work we had a CD grinder. took about 4 seconds per disk.. I am sure some home mechanisms can be built and scrap 1000 disk in the time it took you to melt all the crap off of 20 disk. Just collect the powder remains and continue with your process. Your process seems a bit fun to try, but quite inefficient.
poncho vanillabean ya but your looking at it wrong. that pot could be full of cds, therefore itd be a dimes worth of energy to get 2 quarters worth of silver. see where im goin?
Especially if you cut them all up into smaller pieces to fit in the pot better anf you did two to three loads off of you pot of lye ( caustic soda) 200 CDs for 1 g of silver 1000 CDs for an oz 16000 CDs for a.lb and people throw them away like nothing, could probably spend a week going door to door for old CDs and end up with 1000$ lye is like 4$ a lb already have a pot, oh what about one oof those big stew pots and 3 lbs of lye could get a couple thousand cut up CDs in one of those. What if you had kids and could send them out to do the slave work }:‑) at least then they paid for their own sneakers the b****ds, time too go Rob the neighbors.
Boris, thank you. You have given us in the United States and the entire world ideas about how to prosper. you are like the great scientists. ideas that you have are to be treasured and expanded upon. you have blessed us. May you be blessed.
Not that someone is going to do this to 9000 CD's for around $15+ worth of silver, it is cool information to know if you find yourself in some type of Macgyver situation and you are in need of a little silver.
The polycarbonate material and possible gold or silver in the reflective layer would make CD-Rs highly recyclable. However, the polycarbonate is of very little value and the quantity of precious metals is so small that it is not profitable to recover them.
Trying to get the precious metals out of CD's and hard drive discs are like changing four quarters for a dollar, or even five quarters depending on your technique.
Only the most expensive cds were coated with silver, most of them now are aluminum, but what you have looks like aluminum. From my experience i would know, i work with silver most every day
+Dragonfliii Lopez - I love wasteful folks like you who throw useful stuff away - that's precisely how I've stockpiled hundreds of CDs - by retrieving them from the refuse that people have discarded!
Don't worry about that, silver has never been used on CDs it has always been aluminum. The crystal structure of the metal that he recovered is consistant with aluminum not silver
+Howard Black I've never come across Lye myself - I assume we Brits must know it by another name - But looking at the spelling, there must be *lots* of it in our Parliament! ;-)
If you only heat up the cd for a few seconds and freeze after, to expand the polycarbonate more than metal layer to take off the metal layer? is possible?
What happens to all old recycled devices.... First off your device will be scrapped for all of its precious metals such as gold which enables electronics to work. Not to forget copper, and what these recycling companies don't want you to know is that they can melt these scraps of metals that are then sold for jewelry,or computer parts. Who knows if your purchasing that new microwave that might have a piece of gold that you already had.
What is the value of polycarbonate? Even then it is recycled. Silver will just increase profit and the point I was making that there is some silver. Not too much but it's up to interested person to adjust a whole process to make it profitable
Mo King Surely you are joking, right? Besides, it's a question you are capable of figuring the answer to yourself - use the brain you were born with, Mo King! First off, the video was made by a gentleman who lives in Russia - and assuming you are in America, I'm surprised that it never occurred to you to realize that you can't expect someone who lives in another country to go to the trouble of: (first) doing research necessary to learn what the energy costs are in America, and (secondly) then correlate the costs of energy in America to the costs of energy in Russia, and (thirdly) then figure out how much energy he used to do the whole lot, to figure out the difference. You remind me of the guy further up who expects someone to translate this entire video into Spanish for him!! The nerve of both of you - are you related? People are getting so lazy they want everyone else to do all the work to give them their answers instead of exerting the effort themselves! Unbelievable! Not to mention your question should not have even been asked, because it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that at $18 per troy ounce for Silver, the heating cost would be negligible. If you're a youngster, forgive me - if you're an adult, figure it out yourself.
What are the chemicals you are using for this method. I want to do it at home to. Maybe you can send me more detailed instructions, with the all the processes that have chemicals added to or in any solution. I have literally thousands of CD's. thanks. Keep the video's coming. Good work
To much intro to much lapse in between significant procedure. Shorten video and Lord have mercy get to the point. You are catering to a generation of short attention spans. They won't hang around
I’m assuming you mean my generation? I stayed for the whole deal. Patience is a virtue, and the people who can’t handle waiting can go back to making money the simpleton way: let the man dictate how much and when
So stainless steel is not the only thing that can withstand you solution glass beakers will also withstand it and instead of using wood stick you can use a glass rod
I don’t care about the lower quality of editing, this is funny and cool. Plus, my sincere apologies, but I can’t not laugh at the potato crucible. I’ll have to try that some time
I have a few gold ones somewhere also. Most of mine are the silver ones. I wonder if the pressed ones like software and music come on are silver also because the ones seen in this video were recordable instead.
Dude your funny as can be man. And very good find on the CD's. Was the green liquid the soda when you said you washed the stuff before you melted it? Just curious what caused the green color
greenish color was caused by one more ingredient I added while making solvent. After all I realised that it was not needed so just caustic soda will do the job
for the amount of silver you get, this is hardly worth the time and effort, although interesting. I don't think they make CD's with silver anymore though, If I can buy a pack of 10 for a dollar, its probably aluminum more commonly.
David Bretherick David! You are making that evaluation based on the notion that the person selling you the "pack of 10 for a dollar" actually knows the value of what they're selling you - many people don't. I have seen many items for sale online that are undervalued because people just aren't aware what they have - nor do they possess the inclination or the motivation to sensibly research it to learn. I'm just sayin.' As well, considering this gentleman recovered 1 Troy Ounce of silver off of just a handful of discs, that's mighty respectable .... as I write this on February 15th, 2017, the New York spot market price for silver is $17.99 per troy ounce, up .04 cents from yesterday; with an expectation to keep rising. I have hundreds of these discs stockpiled - for the precise reason of always suspecting they were coated with a precious metal. I actually thought it could be rhodium, considering how reflective they are; but silver is good. It'd be worth it to me to process 'em. There are many folks out there who would be grateful to get their hands on $17.99 by just exerting some time and effort. I guess it all depends on your personal financial situation, but I believe in supporting the recycling effort as well - it's better than putting more stuff in landfill.
nice video , but you did not say what kind of solution you use and how much you used to the amount of water? and what did you do with the polycarbonate and What is the value of polycarbonate ? is this Cody from Cody lab. ?
So how many compact disc would it take to get a lb of silver? Considering how many people throw them away that 200$ a lb, also if you cut them all up into smaller pieces it would take less solution for more discs, sounds like you could make a handsome bid at an Enterprise for recycling people old CDs, time to go pester the neighbors for their old CDs:-)
First it was a total waste of your time. Then it was a total waste of our time. At least i finally got to hear some intelligent music on a video. Thanks.
Quite a lot of people are asking how much of silver it could be there? Gents! Except of theoretical yield it also depends on your practical skill ) The method shown in the video is "quick and dirty". Those people who know how refining works they should be also able to estimate losses. Speaking about just melting less than a gram of silver in potato will cause some losses on it's own. Finally it's up to interested person to make the process profitable by regenerating solution and reducing cost of spend energy.
there are these videos of women who scrap off the silver so the cost is clear for there arts and crafts. you could scrap the silver off in that way and then put the scrapings in the solution without the bulk of the cd. could you possess more in less time and chemicals this way?
Pour out the liqiid outside into the soil to filter it for safety and a responsible disposal method and for the cd scrap simply toss. Note I imagine that is what the vid is saying to do but fwiw idk as I am not doing this. Nor ever have before done this.
0:44-0:54 (boiling and boiling solution) - use stainless steel pot, "sodium hydroxide" (Na(Oh)) mixed w. water (find your own 'magic solution'?) 9:30-9:34 (melting the foil process) - add some Borax "sodium borate, sodium (or disodium) tetraborate" (again, ones own 'magic solution'?) 9:51-9:55 ("testing") - take result and dissolve in "dilute nitric acid" (HNO3), (I reckon it's again ones own prefered amount depending on how much the quantity is) 10:13-10:17 ("final results") - silver precipitated back to 'silver chloride' by adding (ones own 'magic amount'?) of sodium chloride to the mixture. just something I noted down for my self while whatching the video... hope it helps with your question
All in One by #shiv It said clearly and as plain as day, in the video: "domestic caustic soda" (in water, I presume - that's a "given"). Since you can write the English language, that means you can also read it ... your question should give rise to asking yourself this question: "If I missed that, I wonder what else I must have missed?" If you do not know what "domestic caustic soda" is, gee; if I wanted to know what it was, I'd look it up in a dictionary or do a simple Google search on it - I wouldn't ask someone else to do the work to get the answer I wanted! I am truly stunned by the prevalence of questions that have been asked in this comment section that needn't have been asked. Although I am a strong believer in the edict: "The only stupid question is the one that isn't asked," I am beginning to believe that something has recently seriously wrong in our society as relating to sensible thinking processes because I have never seen so many thoughtless questions in one place! Everyone is expecting others to exert the effort necessary to get their questions answered! Does the term "critical thinking" mean anything to you??!
there is a pause button. i bet you are the kind of person that would die locked up in a fully stocked kitchen in less than a week. either mommy does everything for you or you eat takeout every day
Interesting vid. Just did the math. You dissolved 25 CDs to get 0.1g of something that maybe silver. How many CD's to get the same amount of silver as a 1 Troy ounce = 31.1035 grams (lets just say 31grams) coin? 0.1g = 25 CDs 1g - 250 CDs 1 Troy Ounce = 7750 CDs So, to get 1 Troy Ounce as of today (7th of Sep 2020) is worth USD$27 you have to dissolve 7750 CDs That amount of work for only that amount of silver.. I think this is possibly the most inefficient & wasteful way to get silver I have ever seen. Hopefully your making more from the views🤣
Best cd-burner ever. Compatible with all brands.
Ha, nice.
Wheyy
My wife left me, but left behind her CD-R COLLECTION, guess I have found my SILVER LINING :)
Chay. Bode.
Same here lol
🤣
Boris Petrov - thank you very much for filming this process and then uploading it to share with us all here on RUclips - it was very nice of you! I have literally hundreds of these discs stockpiled in storage because I have always suspected that they contained precious metals of some sort. Now I know what to do with them, thanks to you!
I worked for a CD manufacture they Vaporize Aluminium with High Voltage not Silver
Some cd manufacturers use silver or even gold for their reflective coatings... but most use aluminum. Now CD-R and CD-RW disc do contain silver, gold and/or other rare metals....
You could also use a 50% nitric acid solution (polycarbonate is pretty resistant to nitric acid at that concentration even heated so as to speed the reaction) which would yield silver nitrate and then you could recover the silver from the silver nitrate solution using some copper.
Keep in mind, these must say CD-R, not Just CD or CD-RW. DVDs will not work, as the other types other than CD-R contain Aluminum.
Actually, Mr. E-Scrap Man, my research says otherwise.
all CDs are made of aluminum not silver. get a job buddy
Would you care to elablorate? I honestly would like to know what you have found out.
You are correct. However, the CD-Rs which you use in your computer do contain silver.
The E- Scrap Man b
I have more than 2000 CD and DVDs at home. Didn't know u could take out silver from them. Bravo.
Ah well, at least I enjoyed the Blue Danube.
At last one person didn't ask me "what is that terrible music?"
Definitely my favourite - I love all the Strauss waltzes.
Love blue danube
There is no silver in a CD. The reflective surface is made when the CD is in a vacuum chamber next to a nickle disk that is blasted with argon gas. The molecules released from the nickle target adhere to the poly-carbonate of the disc, so the coating is nickle! Plus, the melted poly fumes will kill you!
Ahhh. You really had to kill the moment. Didn't you.......;-)
I loved the video! Ive been wondering about how much silver you would get from a small amount of discs. I enjoyed watch the solution work. Love your humor! Excellent taste,my man. Not only in humor, but in music too. I'm scrolling through these comments and seeing all this hilarious and stupid comments. If you can't read the text fast enough, practice reading more. Perfect time to put text up by the way. If anything, I would say make it a little shorter. Of course the time and energy wasn't "worth" that .1 gram of silver, but it was worth all the fun that Boris probably had. You think this is too long? Go outside and watch the sunset for the whole day. Learn patience and appreciate the process that is undergoing. This video, much like most RUclips videos, was made for fun and the pleasure of the maker who wishes to share what they had with others and to remember what they did. If you didn't enjoy what they had, don't add some useless comment that says you didn't. It just proves youre an uncultured swine who would like to be negative and make the world a worse place. And don't watch the whole video if you don't like it. That's you deciding to waste your time.
At my old work we had a CD grinder. took about 4 seconds per disk.. I am sure some home mechanisms can be built and scrap 1000 disk in the time it took you to melt all the crap off of 20 disk. Just collect the powder remains and continue with your process. Your process seems a bit fun to try, but quite inefficient.
The French Horn solo when the music start
Musician Friendly yes u can play my french horn
I stared at a pot of CDs for 8 minutes. 👍
Ok if you can speed read but each step is slow like molasses . he will show you the dis for twenty minutes then the reading is like a quick flash
Looks like a dime's worth of energy to get a nickel's worth of silver.
poncho vanillabean ya but your looking at it wrong. that pot could be full of cds, therefore itd be a dimes worth of energy to get 2 quarters worth of silver. see where im goin?
Especially if you cut them all up into smaller pieces to fit in the pot better anf you did two to three loads off of you pot of lye ( caustic soda) 200 CDs for 1 g of silver 1000 CDs for an oz 16000 CDs for a.lb and people throw them away like nothing, could probably spend a week going door to door for old CDs and end up with 1000$ lye is like 4$ a lb already have a pot, oh what about one oof those big stew pots and 3 lbs of lye could get a couple thousand cut up CDs in one of those. What if you had kids and could send them out to do the slave work }:‑) at least then they paid for their own sneakers the b****ds, time too go Rob the neighbors.
@@roywhipple7340 Lol
You can always bypass your meter and get free electricity
Thank you for using proper music.
I will have to try this sometime.
I just hope that was a platinum album. :)
Boris, thank you. You have given us in the United States and the entire world ideas about how to prosper. you are like the great scientists.
ideas that you have are to be treasured and expanded upon.
you have blessed us. May you be blessed.
J. C Wow. Hi. Its been a minute.
Thank you for the comment. Be blessed. Be safe.
Lol.
Fuck that was like watching an oak tree grow....
Not that someone is going to do this to 9000 CD's for around $15+ worth of silver, it is cool information to know if you find yourself in some type of Macgyver situation and you are in need of a little silver.
EclecticCloset when would you need silver though? to make a bullet to kill a vampire ? 🤣
Silver is for werewolves , lycanthropes. garlic, wood sun for vampires...
The polycarbonate material and possible gold or silver in the reflective
layer would make CD-Rs highly recyclable. However, the polycarbonate is
of very little value and the quantity of precious metals is so small
that it is not profitable to recover them.
Trying to get the precious metals out of CD's and hard drive discs are like changing four quarters for a dollar, or even five quarters depending on your technique.
About as exciting as watching paint dry!
So after watching the video I'm not really finding the information I was looking for, how many CDs to make a pound of silver?
around 500
Everyone rips on you for the low extraction rate but the joke is on them, you got their views!
Only the most expensive cds were coated with silver, most of them now are aluminum, but what you have looks like aluminum. From my experience i would know, i work with silver most every day
Hello, I did not understand what solution you used in the stainless steel pot to put the CDs in? 😉
I am really quite upset with myself right now. I just threw a stack of cds in the garbage can like a week ago...
+Dragonfliii Lopez - I love wasteful folks like you who throw useful stuff away - that's precisely how I've stockpiled hundreds of CDs - by retrieving them from the refuse that people have discarded!
Don't worry about that, silver has never been used on CDs it has always been aluminum. The crystal structure of the metal that he recovered is consistant with aluminum not silver
Bananas
+Howard Black I've never come across Lye myself - I assume we Brits must know it by another name - But looking at the spelling, there must be *lots* of it in our Parliament! ;-)
LOVE THE WALTZ, Genius at work! Lv it!
If you only heat up the cd for a few seconds and freeze after, to expand the polycarbonate more than metal layer to take off the metal layer? is possible?
no way )
Boris Petrov
yes
that scratchy noise is from a vinyl record not a CD know that sound any where lol
What do you use for a base or “magic touch,” in the beginning?
Never throwing away my old discs away now
i never did
they would have to be CD-R drives because any other would be only aluminum
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What did you show? You did not mention anything.
Did you put the Borax inside in to the glass in the end? I did not see How you make this finish
That is not silver but aluminum vaporized in high vaccum chamber.
how much bill cost on electric heater for half an hour dose it worth 😃
Congratulations for your video, and for the refined musical taste
Its amazing, l can't wait to start right away. Oh my God, where have l been all this while not have gotten this important information?
What happens to all old recycled devices.... First off your device will be scrapped for all of its precious metals such as gold which enables electronics to work. Not to forget copper, and what these recycling companies don't want you to know is that they can melt these scraps of metals that are then sold for jewelry,or computer parts. Who knows if your purchasing that new microwave that might have a piece of gold that you already had.
I just wonder what the value in silver is compared to the cost of fuel to heat the water.
Regards MoK
What is the value of polycarbonate? Even then it is recycled.
Silver will just increase profit and the point I was making that there is some silver. Not too much but it's up to interested person to adjust a whole process to make it profitable
I live in a sunny area and know how to position free craigslist mirrors to make free heat.
Boris Petrov
Mo King Surely you are joking, right? Besides, it's a question you are capable of figuring the answer to yourself - use the brain you were born with, Mo King! First off, the video was made by a gentleman who lives in Russia - and assuming you are in America, I'm surprised that it never occurred to you to realize that you can't expect someone who lives in another country to go to the trouble of: (first) doing research necessary to learn what the energy costs are in America, and (secondly) then correlate the costs of energy in America to the costs of energy in Russia, and (thirdly) then figure out how much energy he used to do the whole lot, to figure out the difference. You remind me of the guy further up who expects someone to translate this entire video into Spanish for him!! The nerve of both of you - are you related? People are getting so lazy they want everyone else to do all the work to give them their answers instead of exerting the effort themselves! Unbelievable! Not to mention your question should not have even been asked, because it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that at $18 per troy ounce for Silver, the heating cost would be negligible. If you're a youngster, forgive me - if you're an adult, figure it out yourself.
Interesting video...never know what precious metals are in your home. Thanks
What are the chemicals you are using for this method. I want to do it at home to. Maybe you can send me more detailed instructions, with the all the processes that have chemicals added to or in any solution. I have literally thousands of CD's. thanks. Keep the video's coming. Good work
Please What are the acids used in the separation of silver for the CD
To much intro to much lapse in between significant procedure. Shorten video and Lord have mercy get to the point. You are catering to a generation of short attention spans. They won't hang around
good.
I’m assuming you mean my generation? I stayed for the whole deal. Patience is a virtue, and the people who can’t handle waiting can go back to making money the simpleton way: let the man dictate how much and when
@@Andrewlang90 true he seems the one to have little patience
you don't want everyone knowing chemistry
Just need $1000 of lab equipment and about $200 in electricity to get it. But a very educational video, priceless
This is exactly how I make lasermeth.
I have a nice pile of old CD-R's Thanks for the video. I LIKE silver. Also, what about actual silver silverware ?
So stainless steel is not the only thing that can withstand you solution glass beakers will also withstand it and instead of using wood stick you can use a glass rod
I don’t care about the lower quality of editing, this is funny and cool. Plus, my sincere apologies, but I can’t not laugh at the potato crucible. I’ll have to try that some time
Wondering, prob already asked by someone, I have a bunch of the gold colored CD.... Could it be... Au?
yes could be, but those discs are rare and expensive. Still, yes it could be
I have a bunch that were given to me... Wish I could send you a pic of them. Ok. I'll give it a try to process it as Au. Thanks
I have a few gold ones somewhere also. Most of mine are the silver ones. I wonder if the pressed ones like software and music come on are silver also because the ones seen in this video were recordable instead.
Boris Petrov
Wilson Revelle Ag on the periodic table is silver..not Au
what amount did you get from those 21 discs. .. from.where im sitting it looked like around a 10th oz or so but I can't can't really tell..
Dude your funny as can be man. And very good find on the CD's. Was the green liquid the soda when you said you washed the stuff before you melted it? Just curious what caused the green color
greenish color was caused by one more ingredient I added while making solvent. After all I realised that it was not needed so just caustic soda will do the job
Thanks
+Boris Petrov Good video, you Russians are so industrious.
gary good 😋
for the amount of silver you get, this is hardly worth the time and effort, although interesting. I don't think they make CD's with silver anymore though, If I can buy a pack of 10 for a dollar, its probably aluminum more commonly.
foiled again!!!
David Bretherick David! You are making that evaluation based on the notion that the person selling you the "pack of 10 for a dollar" actually knows the value of what they're selling you - many people don't. I have seen many items for sale online that are undervalued because people just aren't aware what they have - nor do they possess the inclination or the motivation to sensibly research it to learn. I'm just sayin.' As well, considering this gentleman recovered 1 Troy Ounce of silver off of just a handful of discs, that's mighty respectable .... as I write this on February 15th, 2017, the New York spot market price for silver is $17.99 per troy ounce, up .04 cents from yesterday; with an expectation to keep rising. I have hundreds of these discs stockpiled - for the precise reason of always suspecting they were coated with a precious metal. I actually thought it could be rhodium, considering how reflective they are; but silver is good. It'd be worth it to me to process 'em. There are many folks out there who would be grateful to get their hands on $17.99 by just exerting some time and effort. I guess it all depends on your personal financial situation, but I believe in supporting the recycling effort as well - it's better than putting more stuff in landfill.
OfTheDifference where did u see him getting an oz off this? He got 0.1 of a gram
Can this be done with email ?
Thats why Clinton had hers dissolved
I mean.....who doesn't?
nice video , but you did not say what kind of solution you use and how much you used to the amount of water? and what did you do with the polycarbonate and
What is the value of polycarbonate ? is this Cody from Cody lab. ?
I'd rather same the time and just use them as target practice
Are you used any chemical or just water to boil cds?
So how many compact disc would it take to get a lb of silver? Considering how many people throw them away that 200$ a lb, also if you cut them all up into smaller pieces it would take less solution for more discs, sounds like you could make a handsome bid at an Enterprise for recycling people old CDs, time to go pester the neighbors for their old CDs:-)
No conclusions given, just some nice music.
You’re rushing through the descriptions, but show the heating up of liquid at almost full length. Bit annoying.
First it was a total waste of your time. Then it was a total waste of our time. At least i finally got to hear some intelligent music on a video. Thanks.
Quite a lot of people are asking how much of silver it could be there?
Gents! Except of theoretical yield it also depends on your practical skill )
The method shown in the video is "quick and dirty". Those people who know how refining works they should be also able to estimate losses. Speaking about just melting less than a gram of silver in potato will cause some losses on it's own.
Finally it's up to interested person to make the process profitable by regenerating solution and reducing cost of spend energy.
there are these videos of women who scrap off the silver so the cost is clear for there arts and crafts. you could scrap the silver off in that way and then put the scrapings in the solution without the bulk of the cd. could you possess more in less time and chemicals this way?
cd auto corrected as cost.. sorry.
Boris Petrov what liquid did you use to take the silver off?
melting less then a gram of silver in potato?? must be auto correct right?
+attack125 no he said his crucible was half a potato. he even showed a pic of it.
tanks info what solution is used
how did you re -form the hydrocarbonate and what do u do with the CD scraps
Pour out the liqiid outside into the soil to filter it for safety and a responsible disposal method and for the cd scrap simply toss. Note I imagine that is what the vid is saying to do but fwiw idk as I am not doing this. Nor ever have before done this.
what do you do with all that chemical waste that's left after..
Carlos Mejia dump that shit down a drain lol
Well, this has been a lovely afternoon...
Thank you Boris for a great video. For (a few) others, are you sitting comfortably eating potato chips?
You use that pot to make chili?
may i know pls wat re the chemicals used in it
loved the choice of music, at times it seesm that you were in snyc with it.
0.1 grams silver = $0.23 USD. 9000 cd's = 1 troy ounce
shane aldridge pure 999 silver sells at 40 cents a gram . so , .1 would equal only 4 cents of silver . not 23
how many cds in one kg...?
There is 31.1g per troy oz. So it would only be 311 cds to get one troy oz. At today's price of $16.57/toz that works out to 5.3 cents each.
Informative thanx... 311
more like 6531.735CD's. ;)
could you tell me that which solution you use ??
0:44-0:54 (boiling and boiling solution) - use stainless steel pot, "sodium hydroxide" (Na(Oh)) mixed w. water (find your own 'magic solution'?)
9:30-9:34 (melting the foil process) - add some Borax "sodium borate, sodium (or disodium) tetraborate" (again, ones own 'magic solution'?)
9:51-9:55 ("testing") - take result and dissolve in "dilute nitric acid" (HNO3), (I reckon it's again ones own prefered amount depending on how much the quantity is)
10:13-10:17 ("final results") - silver precipitated back to 'silver chloride' by adding (ones own 'magic amount'?) of sodium chloride to the mixture.
just something I noted down for my self while whatching the video...
hope it helps with your question
All in One by #shiv It said clearly and as plain as day, in the video: "domestic caustic soda" (in water, I presume - that's a "given"). Since you can write the English language, that means you can also read it ... your question should give rise to asking yourself this question: "If I missed that, I wonder what else I must have missed?" If you do not know what "domestic caustic
soda" is, gee; if I wanted to know what it was, I'd look it up in a dictionary or do a simple Google search on it - I wouldn't ask someone else to do the work to get the answer I wanted! I am truly stunned by the prevalence of questions that have been asked in this comment section that needn't have been asked. Although I am a strong believer in the edict: "The only stupid question is the one
that isn't asked," I am beginning to believe that something has recently seriously wrong in our society as relating to sensible thinking processes because I have never seen so many thoughtless questions in one place! Everyone is expecting others to exert the effort necessary to get their questions answered! Does the term "critical thinking" mean anything to you??!
No silver AND YES ALUMINUM
Like the choice of music
At what point do you throw in the carrots? lol
what is the solution made of
just wondering, what base are you using here ?
Are those things dated back to the era of Soviet Union? They are so spooky
So how much time did you spend on this?
You’ve got a 4 word crawl up on display for 5 seconds and a 20 word up for 2. Think about it. Just a helpful tip.
there is a pause button.
i bet you are the kind of person that would die locked up in a fully stocked kitchen in less than a week.
either mommy does everything for you or you eat takeout every day
Nothing like doing a little pot and turning a few CDs to pass the time
what u add in a beaker water or chamical
Let's have a look (AND SEE) if there is and silver in compact discs ;)
Literally watching water boil for the first 4 min!
Interesting vid. Just did the math. You dissolved 25 CDs to get 0.1g of something that maybe silver.
How many CD's to get the same amount of silver as a 1 Troy ounce = 31.1035 grams (lets just say 31grams) coin?
0.1g = 25 CDs
1g - 250 CDs
1 Troy Ounce = 7750 CDs
So, to get 1 Troy Ounce as of today (7th of Sep 2020) is worth USD$27
you have to dissolve 7750 CDs
That amount of work for only that amount of silver..
I think this is possibly the most inefficient & wasteful way to get silver I have ever seen.
Hopefully your making more from the views🤣
Well that's 10 minutes and 34 seconds of my life absolutely wasted!
What if the CDs were burned? Set on fire?
I can't believe your CD still making music in the pot...LOL (nice music background)
i want to know how to extract silver in compact discs
What is used in the solution?
what song was that
Rapaz como voce sabe dessas coisas eu nunca sabia que dava pra remover
how many oz's of silver did you get
Did you watched the video?
Yes
Exact weight was given in the video :)
14.9 grams per disk
+jack meoff he says .1 gram as a result of 21 discs. or am I misreading it.?
If you may obtain cheap electric power this method may be good.
cost more on gas or electric
brother there is no of CD are present which CD can be use
You have a talent for dragging videos out smh
seriously what was the song ?reply.