Making Real Gold From the Purple Plague!
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2024
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Nilered made a ring with purple gold today.
Really cool! At the beginning, I assume you meant that it has really low resistance, not conductivity.
and high conductivity
I was VERY confused
Yeah that threw me too
Yes, i also got confused there he ment super low resistance to electricity 😅
It therew me too. I was thinking the led would be dim.
Almost 2 years later NileRed made purple gold
Nile red made this from scratch. It was a really cool process
Action lab destroyed it Nile red made it
I saw that one! That's kinda hilarious.
NileRed: "Finally, after way, way, wayyy too much effort, I've finally accomplished the production of purple gold!"
Electronics engineers: "You mean purple plague? Oh man, we can't NOT make that stuff. It's so annoying!"
Nilered did the exact opposite thing
I'd love to have an ingot of that, even though it's brittle, it looks so beautiful!
Well, I think that it would only be able to make it on the surface of the gold.
That would be... expensive. It would be an ingot of gold after all.
@@sinisterthoughts2896 wouldn't gold plague be just as expensive if gold is used to make it?
@@monsterhunter445: An "ingot of gold" would be measured by weight - so ultimately the weight of less gold with the added weight of whatever ratio of aluminum. The economy of making gold plague ingots would be the weight of gold "displaced" by using aluminum (using less gold), but adding the increased cost of production of plague gold (assuming the aluminum would be obtained at very low prices). It makes you wonder what 14K gold is being "cut" with.
3 things
1 you can only like 40 U.S. dollars for the meatles needed
2 theres a tab that showed me that if you change it to 80.5% gold and 19.5 aluminum its way stronger than the reguluer
and 3 if you whant it perfect than the equipment is 3,000$ just to make it yourself but perfect
bonus 2
4 the regular price for equipment is like 1,800$ so i recomend getting it perfect for 3,000
5 if you make purple gold you could sell it for 600 dolers a 100 g bar of purple gold
It's funny how NileRed did the opposite and it was way harder.
2:52 Thats a new method they use for Iridium catalysts.
To save Iridium they mix it with another material and etch it away.
That way they get a very high surface area.
If it's so brittle, can you grind it down easily to a powder? With that you could then make a more 'pure' gold as the surface area to volume ratio increases drastically. If it's not brittle enough, put it in LN2 first. Most materials get more brittle with lower temperature.
This was my first thought, makes the most sense
u can sell gold dust people buy them
yeah makes sense
@@runewolf77 purple gold oxidizes quite easily, it'll turn black but it's a cool concept
@@Absent_keebs that's a shame
Who is here after NileRed's video?
Me
NileRed's video make me curios about purple gold
0:48 "It has super-low conductivity." Not exactly. It has super-low "resistivity." Conductivity is 1/resistance, so purple gold has super *high* conductivity.
I though I'm the one one who notice that. Might be just an error he didn't notice.
He probably meant resistance
NileRed brought me back to this.
0:49 "it has really low condutivity like real gold", I was under the impression gold has great conductivity
Love to see videos about purple gold out there, especially one from your channel. At 1:42 purple gold that was made into jewelries were mixed with other metals in order to make it more malleable. So it was much different from the ones that you've made.
0:48 super low resistivity
I’ve been interested in gold for a long time and I’ve never heard of purple plague!
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Can also go blue by adding gallium
Gold compounds can be purple, copper compounds are often blue... I’m curious about this pattern.
It’s different because green copper compounds are chemical compounds, whereas here we are dealing with an alloy. Chemical compounds are formed with ionic or covalent bonds between atoms. Alloys are formed through metallic bonds. The mechanism where compounds and alloys produce colors is different (I think, not sure).
Colloidal gold is pink/red
It's all quantum effects. Also, pure gold and copper get their color from relativistic effects.
i love purple gold, wish it was more common in jewelry and stuff
1:51 Aluminium is amphoteric. It will react with acids and bases.
"Hi everyone! Today I'm gonna show you how to be an alchemist in modern times". :v
Out of joke, very good and interesting video program as always. It was very cool to see your experiments with those pieces of purple gold, and it was surprising to me to know what elements that gold alloy is composed. 😀👍
"low conductivity"? Gold has low resistivity, not low conductivity. In fact, of all metals, the only metals that have higher conductivity than Gold are Copper and Silver.
He misspoke I think, but yes that bothered me too.
Never thought gold could look like this, the aluminium made it so brittle too!
Off-topic but there's been talk lately about the earth's core possibly being superionic. It would be pretty neat if the action lab could elaborate on the subject a little.
Fantastic Experiment.
Thanks bro.
Nile red must have watched this video before he decided to make his own
This is a fresh info!!! Thank you very much!!!
@0.48 Not super low conductivity, but rather super low resistance. Conductivity is measured in Siemens BTW, which is the inverse of Ohms. 🙂
He said gold 33 times in this video. At a runtime of 3:54 (excluding the sponsored segment), I calculated that the script was progressing at a rate of 8.46 gold per minute
impressive
Amazing.
Well, we do have Purple of Cassius, which is colloidal gold. So this "Purple Gold" shouldn't be too much of a surprise. Really cool, nonetheless!
There's also crown glass and it's similar
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You can indeed use NaOH to remove the aluminum from the purple gold. But what if you used HCl instead? If I'm thinking about this correctly, the HCl would achieve the exact same goal that the NaOH does. Purple gold is made from aluminum and gold, so you were to put a chunk of it in some 12 M HCl, the gold colour would appear on its surface as well, I believe. Aluminum dissolves easily in HCl, making H2 gas and AlCl3 salt, which also dissolves in water. Gold however, does not, because its reduction potential is higher than that of the H+ ion, which was donated by the HCl. So by that logic, the aluminum would be removed and it would leave you with pure gold metal.
NaOH dissolves the passivating layer of aluminium oxide.
HCl works too, Nile red did it in his video on making purple gold
The purple color of AuAl2 comes from the nanostructure of its surface
Fulminating gold is an explosive gold compound, when it explodes it makes purple smoke due to the production of gold nano particles!
Gold also forms a galvanic pair with aluminum, which promotes the reaction.
In similar way, Zinc leaches from brass (which called dezincification)
with your vacuum pump probably you can make a plasma fusor.
I am into jewellery design and never heard of purple gold im curious to work with it one day
Sweat and other environmental factors can fade the purple back to gold. Perhaps used as a backing for a clear stone so it is completely enclosed?
@@pattheplanter it'll actually turn black instead of gold because it oxidizes.
Last time u said u worked as carpenter
@@Absent_keebs actually it'll oxidize the outside layer and if you sand it you need to heat treat it at 600 degrees Celsius
Same happens when you put metallic mercury on aluminium. It forms a bypass to the aluminium oxide protection and the underlying aluminium metal is actually extremely reactive with water/acid/whatever.
And now NileRed made some.
Came here after watching @NiledRed video
never knew this i love gold even more now, purple is my fav color!
Did you dry the gold before weighing it to see how much aluminium it had lost?
Prince would have LOVED this!
I'd love to see what happens if you melt it? How can you restore the gold to it's refined state?
Very cool. I've actually been looking to learn how to make purple gold since I have a project idea for it, but seeing the aluminum removed is cool as well.
Is it possible to plate things with purple gold?
Purple gold is something new for me thanks for this video
I love you’re vids!
I guess it has appeal as jewelry because purple is historically the color of royalty.
I think purple gold might be more common than regular gold in space, like meteorites and on other planets. We have a lot of chemistry going on cleaning/stripping/dissolving anything that comes into our atmosphere so I wouldn't be surprised if that meant the "natural" common color of gold is not gold color at all.
I'm surprised that it actually lost a measurable amount of weight.
Aluminum is light compared to gold and only those atoms on the surface are going to be dissolved.
You could see from the one he opened that the gold colour actually went quite deep, not just on the surface. It may only be 20% of the total weight but aluminium is two-thirds of the atoms. So when dissolved out you can get the holes in the sponge extending quite a way in.
the sample has a lot of surface area to volume, also the reaction was a little deep so no wonder it lost that weight
Jeweler: This ring cost 1500 dollars and it has a tiny diamond crested with 18 karat gold surrounding it
Action lab: So today I'll be showing you an experiment involving this hand-sized diamond and a bag full of 18 karat gold.
This is awesome!
0:47 Guess this was supposed to be "high conductivity" or "low resistivity."
I wonder if it would be possible to adjust the aluminum content (or maybe use something other than aluminum) to make the gold alloy usefully hard without being brittle?
I'd love to see how you can make plague gold!
This makes so much sense on the call of duty zombie camo
It's almost similar to bismuth, you should do a video on bismuth!!
This is so interesting!
Is it possible to weld purple gold? Could you heat two pieces and fuse them together? So many properties to explore when you find a new substance!
Need to get Nilered on the case
Very cool. The purple gold looks a bit like peacock pyrite.
It would be interesting to mortar and pestle a grams worth and process it out to a final resolution. Cool sponsor by the way! 👍
A better way for the 4th one first grind it into a powder to increase surface area and after it is gold use magic to put it back together
Can you please make a video on perpetual motion !!
You make great videos :)
That Mel Science would be great for my kids
I remember it on a manhwa "Release the witch"
Where did you get the purple gold from?
LEAN CRYSTALS
YES, I WAS FINDING THIS COMMENT LOL
mix it with rust powder and light it up to see what happens 😂
Didn‘t know about purple plague, a great way to smuggle gold 😄😄😉
I'm thinking that using acid to dissolve the aluminum out pan would be the easiest way to separate. Maybe even the gold will need to be dissolved then reconstituted. Any idea as to the best way to purify the gold out of this bonding with aluminum and/or retrieving the gold from a totally dissolved acid solution? Thanks for your awesome videos.
Boil the aluminium off in a furnace?
I can never unsee this. Why is he blinking non-stop.
If you alloy with indium, you get a blue alloy that looks a lot like zinc or osmium❤
Imagine if the ancients had a way to refine alum without using electricity. Purple is already associated with royalty given the rarity of Tyrian Purple before modern synthesis of it's pigment, so imagine a purple metal made of actual gold, and aluminum which at one point costed more than gold.
Thank You.
Can you tell us how much purple gold costs? Is it more or less than regular gold?
Super video turning brittle gold to normal metal ,
What would happen if you create a Reaktion wit gallium ?
Imagine a "ceramic" coffee cup made of purple gold.
Never knew about Purple Gold. Now I do :)
Purple is my favorite color - my hair is dyed purple. The first time I heard of purple gold, I wanted to know a lot more. But until watching this video, I'd never actually *seen* any purple gold. The things I'd read about it said that it doesn't behave like a metal; in designing with it, it's better to think of it as a "stone". And now I know that I'd like a piece of jewelry with some purple gold in it.
hmm black treated steel chain with a purple gold wow piece? i think it would look good around the wrist
@@jamescanjuggle I don't like wearing bracelets. I would like stainless steel and purple gold together in a "wow" pendant on a chain around my neck. I once found out that the purple gold is so brittle and soft you can't set it into a ring like a stone. But it's so *PRETTY!*
nilered
@The Action Lab mercury might be a cool reaction with the purple gold the aluminium should oxidise and the gold dissolve in the mercury right ? then to separate nitrate the mercury and melt the gold .would be interesting if you have the equipment which you prob do
Both aluminum and gold are soluble in mercury
Hey could yall do the sound expireament with the material that vibrates the best sand /rice and then u can do it with water I was thinking using a hydrophobic fine grain substance and water to see wat happens plz
How deep can the hydroxide penetrate? It will be cool to use a gold-aluminum sheet (though I wonder how to prevent it from breaking)
Wow purple gold amazing
When I was a little boy my dads friend told me that purple cabbages have gold in them.
First time ever hearing of purple gold
You should cover it in gallium!
Will it react with Gallium as well? What kind of reaction will it be?
Gold-gallium alloy will be slightly blue in colour
Wow! I never heard of purple gold. What light frequency properties make it turn purple?
I read a lot of it in Chinese martial arts novels but never thought that it was a real material.
@@FedeG86 It probably wasn't in reference to this material (depending on when the novels were set.)
Surely it's plaque not plague!?
Plague 😂
Its plague, because in engineering the aluminum contamination in the right amounts will make the gold brittle and non electrical conduction. It was a plague to electrical engineers trying to find out why things were turning purple and failing.
Reverse Nile Red
The alchemists' powder of projection is purple too
Purple gold looks cooler than normal gold. Lol I'd love to have a chain necklace made of that with a small white gold cross on it. Or vice versa, would actually be even better.
Edit: @ 1:39 he shows jewelry made from this.. 😂 **the big oof**
you can't make chains out of brittle things unfortunately
@@oxybrightdark8765 yeah it'd be super cool if it did though. Vice-versa of what I said in my original comment would also be cool, and maybe possible. I imagine you could possibly form a rugged cross with controlled breaks, and maybe heat it up a bit to soften it before drilling a hole in it? I don't know exactly how the composition of this stuff would react to that, it may just break. But again, hypothetically, it'd be cool.
Seems gaudy, but don't get me wrong. Like any other math nerd, I still like addition too.
@@custos3249 I have a racquetball racquet that I just got that is purple and white, and the goggles I ordered happened to also be purple and white, so it would match with those very well lol.
That would be pretty cool. Too bad science has to mess it up!
Or like those settings, maybe the cross could be inset in some white gold, and that would protect it.
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Since the purple gold is so brittle, could you grind it in a mortar and pestle and *then* attempt to purify?
"Surface area"