As a Chemist/Silver refiner I have to say that there is absolutely nothing fundamentally flawed with the video. I think its fantastic to see someone showing how you don't need thousands of dollars on fancy glass ware and equipment to do REAL Chemistry. There is nothing wrong with mason jars and coffee filters. I do have one small comments but is by no means negative, merely informative. The grey powder there is most likely not silver chloride but rather silver powder. This is a good thing and easy to test, simply add some more nitric acid. If it dissolves then it is silver powder, if not then it is most likely silver chloride. I have to say kudos on suggesting that it is silver chloride. That is a fantastic demonstration of the chemistry thought process and you are absolutely correct that the formation of silver chloride is possible in this situation. The ONLY reason I think it is silver powder and not silver chloride is the color. Fresh silver chloride is very white, whiter than paper white and the powder looked really grey. Silver chloride can turn purple and/or grey but that takes time and sunlight and is only on the surface. If you have any Chemistry related questions feel free to reach out to me. I love to help people and I think you put together a great video here with a lot of potential.
thank you very much for the input! yeah I don't think it was silver or silver chloride any more. it was far to light (as in mass) to be silver in my opinion. also I did some research and found some info on recovering silver from the chloride involving adding sulfuric acid, iron, and then sucrose. the info was pretty vague so I had to wing it. there was no visible reaction other than the sulfuric acid dissolving the iron. I washed the powder and melted some down. I was left with some very dirty slag and a hard, brittle, grey, metallic bar with a very high melting temperature and a very large, visible grain structure. who knows that that is, maybe some ungodly iron alloy. the silver had been through a house fire and wasn't washed as well as it could have been so perhaps it was a little ash reacting with the nitric. who knows haha thanks again for the comment!
I have to agree here. I use Mason jars to create the silver chloride. Then that goes into 1000ml beaker for the addition of lye and sugar. I just feel safer using the borosilicate glass when dealing with the rapid temperature rise.
@@mcartandtool6580 Hey man I was hoping you could help with this. So I refined my sterling and the solution is liquid but the copper is not reacting with it to form the silver cement. Could you help me out here?
Just started my silver stack, and have been doing research into refining. The fact that you’re focused on safety, but with a sense of humour earns my like
Good video. Nitric can be purchased online at Lab Alley for about half the price on eBay. I buy 10 L delivered to my door for about 200 to 210 in 67% technical grade and it works just fine when I refine silver. You should further refine the silver, as it is only about 97 to 98% pure. To test this just take some of the silver powder and dissolve it again, it will still turn the acid blue showing that there's copper still. Pure silver dissolved in Nitric will remain clear when dissolved. As one silver refiner to another great job on the video and your responses to other people's comments are great too.
Chuck in an air line to bubble the solution around lightly it speeds up the process and exposes more molucules to the copper for transfer. also chuck in a small amount of sulfamic acid to denox the solution prior to puttingin your copper, this will ensure there is no dissolving of copper prior to transfer.
Good stuff. The safety is boring, but that’s 70% and it will eat you and your stuff. Thanks for showing that you add acid to water. Never water to acid! A lot of people skip that little safety rule.
Watch sreetips, he is much more informative and he will probably save you a ton of money because he tells you what he is using instead of buying the acids as acids from a vendor. Which FYI is way more expensive than just buying over the counter products that are the same things.
Love this man it is amazing how it all works!! I’ve never had the privilege of owning any silver! Let alone a bar 😝 keep up the good work brother! Hope to be hearing from you soon!!
This made more sense than several 3x45 minute videos ive tried to watch, and the result was the same. I cant get 70% acid here, only 30% but will test this out on some silver and see how it goes. Thank you so much!
I think you did a pretty good job on this project. You first focused on the safety precautions and kept mentioning them throughout and then you kept your explanation pretty simple while still giving enough information for us to understand what's happening. Good job, just remember to weigh the extra next time. Maybe mention disposal for the waste chemicals.
Its fitting to play metal when you fire up the torches. Well done. Here's a filtering tip frens. To remove the possibility of the filter tearing open and pissing you off, use a funnel, but line the funnel with a nylon paint straining bag. Then put a coffee filter into that (so its a double layer). The nylon allows a wicking action for continuous flow and supports the paper filter so it won't break apart. Sometimes I filter into a plastic bucket. I make a lid for the bucket out of plastic or scrap wood and drill holes that I can squeeze the funnel into. I can often fit 3 or 4 funnels into one home made lid. The lid also keeps inquisitive bugs out, and dust. When a filter becomes clogged, it is easily swapped out.
this is crazy because I did this in chemistry class in high school. We did a different metal, but we used a similar method with copper nitrate. This is awesome! Alot of it has to do with the protons and electrons in the silver and copper. It's so funny how that all works out .
Well, I want to say that I’m new to all this silver refining, but I really enjoyed watching your video. It actually taught me a lot. Some of the stuff that I didn’t know about leaving the bars in overnight. It’ll help you get all the silver out a lot of the videos I watch they only leave it in for about an hour or two so I really appreciate the video. It was very helpfuland you’re a lot more decent than listen to some of these other goofy people. Let me tell you, so thank you again I hope you have a merry Christmas. Thanks again.
Then your 10th grade AP chemistry teacher was a complete moron. He messed up by not washing the silver to make sure there was no chlorine present, he didn't roll out the silver into thin strips that the acid could easily attack, and he should have a bucket to pour the copper heavy left-over solution into. Then he could just add some iron bars to that and the copper would cement out the same way the silver did. Not to mention the fact that this should be done in a proper environment with a proper heating plate and a fume extraction system. That way he wouldn't have to move around an acid solution that is in the middle of a reaction because he forgot to take it outside before he started! Edit: You want to see it done properly, go watch sreetips videos. There are still things he does wrong, but there are fewer issues with his work than this.
@@EastDallasKicks I just finish 5 yers in the navy on a submarine. I’ve got 3 kids and just started a new job. (I wasn’t in tenth grade I just still had contact with him) lol
Bro, this video was awesome! I’ve been buying sterling jewelry at auction and just stock piling it. The way you refined this makes me realize that I can definitely do the same!! THANK YOU!!! Also, you’re funny AF!!!
hope you see this and have an answer to this question. did you keep track of cost to refine? not for molds and torches, those are reusable. but for the consumables. mainly the nitric acid and copper bars use
Thanks for the schooling of how to.. Now I just need to watch this how to video enough times to write all this new and exciting information I just learned..now make my shopping list of this I need to get the job done.. Where to find silver scraps to experiment on..I know grandma's silver wear set..no that will get me hurt by granny.. thanks looking forward to more of your videos.. New subscriber to your channel.. I learned something new..I believe everyone needs to learn something new every day.. keep your mind open makes you stronger.
You did good man! I love chemistry and I think your practices are good. I always wonder how this method compares with the silver chloride, sodium hydroxide, and sugar method of refinement. Is there any notable difference in purity? I think it's also good to mention silver staining on your skin. I usually get them when I randomly get a small amount of silver nitrate on my glove and then touch the outside of the beaker. Later during my cleaning step if I don't wear gloves then when I touch the outside of the beaker it transfers a small amount to my skin and then the sunlight finished the job turning the skin black.
Thanks! I’m not too familiar with other refining methods. For sure about the staining. Even getting the thought on your hands will leave a stain. I refine gold as well and I get it almost every time.
Excellent. Thank you for this streamed down video. I believe a 60yrs old I know the safety stuff. Thank you. I just wish I had as much silver as you do. Take it easy Thanks
What is done with the copper solution afterwards? Is the Nitric acid/Copper Solution " More Safe" after the copper is disolved? Or will it still burn your eyes out? Thanks! Awesome video.
I just recently 2 days ago got into stacking and got you popped up on my recommendation. Very informative vid bro I subbed gonna be checking back in for more. I’d love a bar of silver that be freaking awesome!that is if you’re still doing the give away.
About four days, a lot of that is washing the copper nitrate out of the silver. some of the silver crystals are microscopic and take a long tome to settle out.
My only suggestion is don't leave constant heat on graphite molds. Preheating is a must but you want it warm enough to to boil off any moisture and not cool too fast but also not to a point where the graphite will start breaking down. As far as the melting, you did fine! I personally don't keep a torch on the cupel while pouring but if it works for you, there's nothing that says don't! if you want to do larger batches, you can find a cheap propane furnace on amazon. Just make sure to buy rigidizer for the ceramic wool. Hot gloves are a must.
I’m no expert but I I found that the bars come out better when the graphite is as hot as possible and constant heat from the el cheapo torch is all I got. Same with the cupel, I couldn’t get the metal hot enough with the torch to allow for any time in the open air. I’ll look into the furnace, thanks for the input!
sreetips would remind you there's enough chlorine in tap water to produce the amount of silver chloride you had at the bottom of the jar. Did you use distilled water?
This is fun! My question is, where are you pulling all your scrap silver from. If you haven’t already made a video about that, it may be a neat video too!
Good ,dear chemist can you show us how to find purity of silver like silver alloy . Copper silver zinc ? Puriry how much in alloy contain silver ? Kindly
thankyou very much for replying me I am your big big fan and love your work but i am could you please please give me some more information like 1 -:How much nitric acid is required for 1 kg silver alloy 2-: after adding nitric acid to silver how much time we need to heat the solution to end the reaction sir please answer my question
Hey man what filter paper did you use? I found someone eBay but they’re the disc versions and I don’t think they will bend and move like urs cause I have jars and want to use rubber bands also
Oh sweet Thankyou, also did you end up losing any silver in the process? And I have about 15kg of silver to make into bars but idk weather to you an electric furnace or a propane. Could you help me out with that? Cheers man
Hey I saw this video and was wondering how you dealt with the leftover silver in solution. I ask because I've done it and can't tell if its silver or lead.
the whole process takes a few days. the silver I was purifying was 92.5% silver 7.5% copper. the issue with having that much copper is the copper takes a lot more nitric to dissolve than the silver. nitric acid is expensive so it would cost more to purify. other than that it should work just fine. you could do a quick test with some zinc to make sure it would get weeded out along the way.
Copper will use up the nitric something like 2-3x as fast as silver, and the zinc will react with the nitric even faster. It will work, but you'll use up a serious load of nitric acid getting it done.
@@quantroots Maybe if you powdered the alloy, that could work, but I also think you could produce zinc oxide (which is a high-melter) and frankly I don't know where that would go --it wouldn't surprise me that you'd produce something troublesome down the road in the eventual nitric treatment. The good news is that you could try heating with regular propane which can't melt Ag or Cu very well. But if you powdered the whole alloy, I think you'd have some chance of dissolving it in a much weaker acid, even acetic acid, made from cooking off water from ordinary vinegar. The idea being that a weak acid wouldn't attack either the Ag or the Cu. At some point you have to consider your work and chem costs.
As a Chemist/Silver refiner I have to say that there is absolutely nothing fundamentally flawed with the video. I think its fantastic to see someone showing how you don't need thousands of dollars on fancy glass ware and equipment to do REAL Chemistry. There is nothing wrong with mason jars and coffee filters. I do have one small comments but is by no means negative, merely informative.
The grey powder there is most likely not silver chloride but rather silver powder. This is a good thing and easy to test, simply add some more nitric acid. If it dissolves then it is silver powder, if not then it is most likely silver chloride.
I have to say kudos on suggesting that it is silver chloride. That is a fantastic demonstration of the chemistry thought process and you are absolutely correct that the formation of silver chloride is possible in this situation. The ONLY reason I think it is silver powder and not silver chloride is the color. Fresh silver chloride is very white, whiter than paper white and the powder looked really grey. Silver chloride can turn purple and/or grey but that takes time and sunlight and is only on the surface.
If you have any Chemistry related questions feel free to reach out to me. I love to help people and I think you put together a great video here with a lot of potential.
thank you very much for the input! yeah I don't think it was silver or silver chloride any more. it was far to light (as in mass) to be silver in my opinion. also I did some research and found some info on recovering silver from the chloride involving adding sulfuric acid, iron, and then sucrose. the info was pretty vague so I had to wing it. there was no visible reaction other than the sulfuric acid dissolving the iron. I washed the powder and melted some down. I was left with some very dirty slag and a hard, brittle, grey, metallic bar with a very high melting temperature and a very large, visible grain structure. who knows that that is, maybe some ungodly iron alloy. the silver had been through a house fire and wasn't washed as well as it could have been so perhaps it was a little ash reacting with the nitric. who knows haha thanks again for the comment!
Where’s the bars ? Silver of course !
I have to agree here. I use Mason jars to create the silver chloride. Then that goes into 1000ml beaker for the addition of lye and sugar. I just feel safer using the borosilicate glass when dealing with the rapid temperature rise.
@@mcartandtool6580 Hey man I was hoping you could help with this. So I refined my sterling and the solution is liquid but the copper is not reacting with it to form the silver cement. Could you help me out here?
I would also like to know this as well @MC Art and Tool
I have learned a lot watching a genus like you
Just started my silver stack, and have been doing research into refining. The fact that you’re focused on safety, but with a sense of humour earns my like
thank you!
YouGet a like because While you appreciate safety is important it's also good understand that it doesn't have to be dull.
Good video. Nitric can be purchased online at Lab Alley for about half the price on eBay. I buy 10 L delivered to my door for about 200 to 210 in 67% technical grade and it works just fine when I refine silver. You should further refine the silver, as it is only about 97 to 98% pure. To test this just take some of the silver powder and dissolve it again, it will still turn the acid blue showing that there's copper still. Pure silver dissolved in Nitric will remain clear when dissolved. As one silver refiner to another great job on the video and your responses to other people's comments are great too.
thanks for the input! next time I need nitric I'll check that site out.
Chuck in an air line to bubble the solution around lightly it speeds up the process and exposes more molucules to the copper for transfer. also chuck in a small amount of sulfamic acid to denox the solution prior to puttingin your copper, this will ensure there is no dissolving of copper prior to transfer.
Good stuff. The safety is boring, but that’s 70% and it will eat you and your stuff. Thanks for showing that you add acid to water. Never water to acid! A lot of people skip that little safety rule.
I just started buying and salvaging precious metals. This video was super informative but simple to understand. 👍
Watch sreetips, he is much more informative and he will probably save you a ton of money because he tells you what he is using instead of buying the acids as acids from a vendor. Which FYI is way more expensive than just buying over the counter products that are the same things.
Love this man it is amazing how it all works!! I’ve never had the privilege of owning any silver! Let alone a bar 😝 keep up the good work brother! Hope to be hearing from you soon!!
This made more sense than several 3x45 minute videos ive tried to watch, and the result was the same. I cant get 70% acid here, only 30% but will test this out on some silver and see how it goes. Thank you so much!
Glad I could help!
I think you did a pretty good job on this project. You first focused on the safety precautions and kept mentioning them throughout and then you kept your explanation pretty simple while still giving enough information for us to understand what's happening. Good job, just remember to weigh the extra next time. Maybe mention disposal for the waste chemicals.
appreciate the feed back, thanks!
I love the pounds of silver look and making stuff with it !
Its fitting to play metal when you fire up the torches. Well done. Here's a filtering tip frens. To remove the possibility of the filter tearing open and pissing you off, use a funnel, but line the funnel with a nylon paint straining bag. Then put a coffee filter into that (so its a double layer). The nylon allows a wicking action for continuous flow and supports the paper filter so it won't break apart. Sometimes I filter into a plastic bucket. I make a lid for the bucket out of plastic or scrap wood and drill holes that I can squeeze the funnel into. I can often fit 3 or 4 funnels into one home made lid. The lid also keeps inquisitive bugs out, and dust. When a filter becomes clogged, it is easily swapped out.
Good stuff thanks!
this is crazy because I did this in chemistry class in high school. We did a different metal, but we used a similar method with copper nitrate. This is awesome! Alot of it has to do with the protons and electrons in the silver and copper. It's so funny how that all works out .
You've done a great job on this video you are so officiant and precise.
thank you!
Great learning now I can save my silver waste! Thank you
Mmmmm silver! 😋 Nice haul you have there. Thanks for sharing.
I have watched this video 3 times now, dag-um! It doesn't get old. Thanks brother.
Thank you! Glad you enjoy it!
Well, I want to say that I’m new to all this silver refining, but I really enjoyed watching your video. It actually taught me a lot. Some of the stuff that I didn’t know about leaving the bars in overnight. It’ll help you get all the silver out a lot of the videos I watch they only leave it in for about an hour or two so I really appreciate the video. It was very helpfuland you’re a lot more decent than listen to some of these other goofy people. Let me tell you, so thank you again I hope you have a merry Christmas. Thanks again.
Thank you for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed it!
10 out of 10. My 10th grade ap chemistry teacher said good job.
haha thats awesome!
Then your 10th grade AP chemistry teacher was a complete moron. He messed up by not washing the silver to make sure there was no chlorine present, he didn't roll out the silver into thin strips that the acid could easily attack, and he should have a bucket to pour the copper heavy left-over solution into. Then he could just add some iron bars to that and the copper would cement out the same way the silver did. Not to mention the fact that this should be done in a proper environment with a proper heating plate and a fume extraction system. That way he wouldn't have to move around an acid solution that is in the middle of a reaction because he forgot to take it outside before he started!
Edit: You want to see it done properly, go watch sreetips videos. There are still things he does wrong, but there are fewer issues with his work than this.
Where you at now bud? 12th?
@@EastDallasKicks I just finish 5 yers in the navy on a submarine. I’ve got 3 kids and just started a new job. (I wasn’t in tenth grade I just still had contact with him) lol
@@Strangeklown97 oh was just about to say congrats on graduating either now or soon 😂
I dig your "regular guy" approach... well done
thanks!
Bro, this video was awesome! I’ve been buying sterling jewelry at auction and just stock piling it. The way you refined this makes me realize that I can definitely do the same!! THANK YOU!!!
Also, you’re funny AF!!!
Thanks bro! I appreciate it! If I can do it anybody can!
Yet again, another great video 👏🏼🙌🏼👌🏼
thanks!
hope you see this and have an answer to this question. did you keep track of cost to refine? not for molds and torches, those are reusable. but for the consumables. mainly the nitric acid and copper bars use
Thanks for the schooling of how to..
Now I just need to watch this how to video enough times to write all this new and exciting information I just learned..now make my shopping list of this I need to get the job done..
Where to find silver scraps to experiment on..I know grandma's silver wear set..no that will get me hurt by granny.. thanks looking forward to more of your videos..
New subscriber to your channel..
I learned something new..I believe everyone needs to learn something new every day.. keep your mind open makes you stronger.
lol for sure! glad to have you aboard! I love learning, just not the kind you do in school unfortunately.
You did good man! I love chemistry and I think your practices are good. I always wonder how this method compares with the silver chloride, sodium hydroxide, and sugar method of refinement. Is there any notable difference in purity? I think it's also good to mention silver staining on your skin. I usually get them when I randomly get a small amount of silver nitrate on my glove and then touch the outside of the beaker. Later during my cleaning step if I don't wear gloves then when I touch the outside of the beaker it transfers a small amount to my skin and then the sunlight finished the job turning the skin black.
Thanks! I’m not too familiar with other refining methods. For sure about the staining. Even getting the thought on your hands will leave a stain. I refine gold as well and I get it almost every time.
Looks fun im going to try this
Do it! Just be careful
Excellent. Thank you for this streamed down video. I believe a 60yrs old I know the safety stuff. Thank you. I just wish I had as much silver as you do. Take it easy Thanks
Very nice. Thank you. I've been looking for exactly how to do this
No problem!
U need more subscribers honestly I love ur videos
thanks! if you want to help, share my channel with anybody you think would enjoy it!
@@mcartandtool6580 sure will
Dude you deserve more subscribers than you have, just subbed looking forward to seeing what else you do.👍
thank you!
What is done with the copper solution afterwards? Is the Nitric acid/Copper Solution " More Safe" after the copper is disolved? Or will it still burn your eyes out?
Thanks! Awesome video.
Neat chemistry lesson. I've seen it but I don't get it. Hope mom doesn't need her pyrex dish back to make Christmas cheer!
believe it or not I bought my own pyrex!
@@mcartandtool6580 If I'm not one of the lucky ones to receive a bar. Can I buy one?
Isn’t that the truth !
I just recently 2 days ago got into stacking and got you popped up on my recommendation. Very informative vid bro I subbed gonna be checking back in for more. I’d love a bar of silver that be freaking awesome!that is if you’re still doing the give away.
First time subscriber love the video keep em up
Merry Christmas! Good job on the video. How long did the whole process take?
About four days, a lot of that is washing the copper nitrate out of the silver. some of the silver crystals are microscopic and take a long tome to settle out.
Thank you so much for this, going to give it a go. Silvers bars dope! Any videos on gold?
My only suggestion is don't leave constant heat on graphite molds. Preheating is a must but you want it warm enough to to boil off any moisture and not cool too fast but also not to a point where the graphite will start breaking down.
As far as the melting, you did fine! I personally don't keep a torch on the cupel while pouring but if it works for you, there's nothing that says don't!
if you want to do larger batches, you can find a cheap propane furnace on amazon. Just make sure to buy rigidizer for the ceramic wool. Hot gloves are a must.
I’m no expert but I I found that the bars come out better when the graphite is as hot as possible and constant heat from the el cheapo torch is all I got. Same with the cupel, I couldn’t get the metal hot enough with the torch to allow for any time in the open air. I’ll look into the furnace, thanks for the input!
Thank you so much really enjoyed watching take care
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed my video!
Brother normal water will not work..??
I love your hat and mustache man, respect
thanks!
Great job. Fast easy and looked fun
pretty cool!
Great job, I have 20lbs of silver which is 75% silver and 25% copper.
I’m doing my research to separate them, thank you👍
Awesome video! Think you nailed all the essentials! Kudos! & Merry Christmas too!
sreetips would remind you there's enough chlorine in tap water to produce the amount of silver chloride you had at the bottom of the jar. Did you use distilled water?
WHAT IS THAT SONG
The one that plays during the smelting.
I've heard that solo so many times before but i cant remember where.
I use that same pyrex cup for a beaker for my own refining nice seeing all those bars did you get the gold out too?
I did! I will refine the gold in a future video
Your mustache is filthy. I love it.
Get a pyrex casserol dish to put under the beaker. If to tipped that over its GONE.
This is fun!
My question is, where are you pulling all your scrap silver from. If you haven’t already made a video about that, it may be a neat video too!
Yard sales. You can get silver jewelry cheap
Good ,dear chemist can you show us how to find purity of silver like silver alloy .
Copper silver zinc ?
Puriry how much in alloy contain silver ?
Kindly
Hey man. Why can I not just put the old silver jewelry in my foundry and melt and pour as I do CU, brass, AL. etc. ? I guess I don't understand.
thankyou very much for replying me I am your big big fan and love your work but i am could you please please give me some more information like
1 -:How much nitric acid is required for 1 kg silver alloy
2-: after adding nitric acid to silver how much time we need to heat the solution to end the reaction sir please answer my question
This is really, really cool!
Thanks!
Hey dude love your video’s and would love to have just one of those bars I’m just starting out in the refilling trade
2:24 did you kept pouring the solutions into the jar after putting water in it?
How and when did you learn all this STUFF .?
How long does the dissolving process take? Im on day 5. Am I babying it and doing it too slow?
Really cool!
Thank you!
Hey, is it okay to rinse it with tap water instead? Will it cause the powder to become impure, and turn dark in colour?
What a great video! love it!
I've been watching the videos think I'm ready to give it a shot myself could you send me a list of everything I need and or what site to order from
Brilliant work
I really enjoyed your video I just refined 3.4 pounds of scrap sterling I got 3.1 pound bar
Good job that’s awesome!
Truly an awesome video
Does the nitric become not dangerous after it's used up/finished reacting?
Nice job my friend. Keep the good work buddy👍👍👍👍👍
thanks!
Great Job. I believe you can place some lead bar in the solution to soke up any chlorine.
Great video very educational thumbs up
Great video. First time I have seen you creat.
That was cool and I like the whole video..😂😂😂
That's awesome. Great video..
Thanks!
Would a butane torch take much longer? You rock, dude!
Thanks man! I have a small butane torch that doesn’t get hot enough.
Do you stamp your bars? This is cool as shit.
2:14 I was just wondering if that was rice in your hot plate when you put the Pyrex dish full of solution on it.... Thank you
It was sand to help dissipate the heat
Thank you so much... Your video is very informative and very easy to follow...
Glad I could help!
Where did you obtain the silver scrap to do this project?
I would love to know all the things you know about silver
Awesome video man!
Hey man what filter paper did you use? I found someone eBay but they’re the disc versions and I don’t think they will bend and move like urs cause I have jars and want to use rubber bands also
Coffee filters
Oh sweet Thankyou, also did you end up losing any silver in the process? And I have about 15kg of silver to make into bars but idk weather to you an electric furnace or a propane. Could you help me out with that? Cheers man
it's a good effort to pour your own silver bars, better than I can do.
Very cool!
Thank you so much I have some quantity of silver to refine ...
So cool thanks for the video
good vid! good humor too!
Thanks!
Inspired!🙏🏾❤
good work. thanks for the info.
If you happen to still be doing a giveaway, I'm interested! I didn't see anything about it in your later videos but I might have missed something.
Very nice. How pure would you say the silver is? 98%?
I would guess its 99%+
What kind of filter paper did you use? Thanks
Just whatever coffee filters I had laying around
fine, thanks Dear
Nice. You can learn a little bit from streetips channel though.
Is it possible to get the copper out of the blue solution?
Great video!!! Free bars??
New Sub keep up the good work
How exactly pure are they? that's awesome dude
98 or better from what I have researched. I don’t have the means to test it. Thanks bro!
How do you dispose of the acid afterwards?
Neutralize it with baking soda
Hey I saw this video and was wondering how you dealt with the leftover silver in solution. I ask because I've done it and can't tell if its silver or lead.
I am not sure of the silver in solution you are talking about.
How many hours did the entire process take and would this work for scrap with around 45%-45% copper/silver and 10% zinc?
the whole process takes a few days. the silver I was purifying was 92.5% silver 7.5% copper. the issue with having that much copper is the copper takes a lot more nitric to dissolve than the silver. nitric acid is expensive so it would cost more to purify. other than that it should work just fine. you could do a quick test with some zinc to make sure it would get weeded out along the way.
Copper will use up the nitric something like 2-3x as fast as silver, and the zinc will react with the nitric even faster. It will work, but you'll use up a serious load of nitric acid getting it done.
@@pneumatic00 I also thought about melting the zinc off through a metal sifter as the melting point is much lower than the copper or silver.
@@quantroots Maybe if you powdered the alloy, that could work, but I also think you could produce zinc oxide (which is a high-melter) and frankly I don't know where that would go --it wouldn't surprise me that you'd produce something troublesome down the road in the eventual nitric treatment. The good news is that you could try heating with regular propane which can't melt Ag or Cu very well. But if you powdered the whole alloy, I think you'd have some chance of dissolving it in a much weaker acid, even acetic acid, made from cooking off water from ordinary vinegar. The idea being that a weak acid wouldn't attack either the Ag or the Cu. At some point you have to consider your work and chem costs.
@@pneumatic00 What are your thoughts on this? I saw it done here: th-cam.com/video/YyoQ-lKJyvI/w-d-xo.html
U have great humor
Great video! How many did you give away?
2