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- Here I show you how to make 99.9% pure copper metal crystals using electrolysis. They are easy to make but take a very long time.
Here is the link to my video where I process the sludge at the bottom for the other metals.
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“This doesn’t need to be perfect by any means.”
*spends several minutes making micro-adjustments.”
“There we go, perfect!”
Lol love it
This looks like the most complicated fried chicken recipe on the planet.
😂😂😂
Extra Cu-rispy ! 🤣🤣🤣
Probably tastes like shit too
@@bullie86 Probably breaking your teeth too :D
I was thinking of that I swear I was about to comment it
I love youtubers, they do things so I don't have to.
oh nice i was looking for a good copper crystal growing tutorial
I was like totally meh about it. I had my heart set on Rutherfordium. No one just does that sort of thing anymore. Kids, these days, always going for the common metals. Not a care in the world for how that shit's just gonna turn green someday like the pine needles it looks like anyway. And where's the challenge? Rutherfordium has a half life in it's most stable form of only 1.3 hours. Try your little crystal growing experiment while dealing with unruly daughter products and the source metal spittin out alphas like a boss all the way. You wanna impress the world on TH-cam? Walk on the edge a little, bro. Show some chutzpah.
@Mister Dicken I have, long long ago. Alum makes seriously pretty crystals - very complex and crystal clear like glass. One of the easiest things in the world to get a big, pretty crystal out of.
@Mister Dicken For water soluble things like alum, salt or sugar, all you really need to do is heat water and stir in your crystal making chemical of choice until no more will dissolve. This is called 'Super saturation", and crystals will start to grow on any suitable surface as soon as the liquid cools. The usual method is to hang a string in the liquid and just let it be with the top open so the liquid can evaporate and more and more crystals will grow on the string.
To get a really nice crystal for display, you can take a crystal grown that way and hang it from a string in more supersaturated solution of the same type that made the crystal. The crystal will then immediately start to grow, acting as a perfect target for growth in the container. Doing it this way over and over, you can make a really big, really pretty crystal. Getting a perfect crystal is challenging, but growing huge ones that are kind of random is actually pretty easy.
@Mister Dicken Watched the video. That's quite a setup. I've never seen crystals grown that way, lol I guess that's like the hardcore method. Pretty cool.
Try using hydrochloric acid to shine those crystals up. HCl will not affect the copper but it will dissolve the oxides from the surface of the crystals. You will be left with very shiney crystals.
I did try using HCL to shine them up a while back and it does work for a day or two. After that though they turn very very dull.
Hmm, probably because the freshly exposed surfaces oxidize very quickly. Maybe after a hcl treatment you could spray them in urethane to preserve the luster. Just something to block the oxygen.
Could you reverse the current for a few hours before you pull them out?
for the smaller crystals why not encase it in resin then turn it into a necklace or something?
rvarnum just curious as to why you would want too. Do you think it would cause something else to happen?
This is so beautiful! Looks like little plants or corals.
This was way more interesting than I initially thought.
That's pretty cool. I would've left all the crystalson the wire and made a glass case for it to display the big crystal
tyler krug YES!!
I use a 32 qt PP dog food container as a crystal growing cell. You can start the process with water and sulphuric acid, the copper sulphate will evolve from that naturally. I also do not cast anode bars. I use an anode bag and a titanium anode. In fact, I call it the TAPP cell (Titanium Anode Parting Process). In this cell, I'm removing the copper substrate from gold plated pins in the anode bag and collecting large copper crystals on the cathode wire. My cathode wire is just an insulated 10 gauge wire, with about one inch stripped clean. To date I've grown several large crystals, the largest being right at 2kg as a single pure crystal. If you leave the seed wire straight, it can be twisted and extracted from the finished crystal.
This was really cool man! Thanks for taking the time and effort to make this video! I'm just now getting into this, I remember making salt crystals back in the day in science class. But these looks really cool and I'll deff would like to try this out. I know I can get ahold of good amounts of copper at work. So I'll probably start by saving and getting together as much copper as I can and then making it into a nice big bar or something in order to make my crystals when I'm ready. I actually think I'm going to try this out first before I try working with bismuth. Any way thanks for the vid once again dude!
This is complicated but the end result is awesome. Thank you for sharing.
If you place the anode into a very fine mesh plastic container or a nylon cloth bag you will keep the 'slimes' and other unwanted contaminants from settling out on the bottom of the reaction vessel. Streetips demonstrates this method in some of his silver cell posts. I also use this method and it works quite well.
Nice to see another sreetips viewer in the wild
Wow, It is beautiful and almost alive/organic. Thanks for sharing.
My spaceships on empty I'm so glad I found this. Quick trip to Walmart and I'm on my way home
CONGRATULATIONS on your new baby!!
anything of quality in chemistry takes a long time. Good video
Explosions.
Congratulation on the new born and thank you for the great video.
Fascinating...like watching a micro reef grow....it spun me out that the crystal mass kind of looked like a foetus!
Really cool and fascinating, Thank you. There is another channel where he makes pure silver crystals, he uses a stainless steel bowl.
this is very cool, they would look incredible set in resin to keep them safe
Pretty cool. Thanks for the video!
This was very interesting to watch. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Great video,learned a lot,thanks!
Awesome Congratulations on a million subscribers bro .. That is awesome keep up the good work dude I always watch the channel.... Cody's lab
Awesome, informative video thanks!. I am going to try this with Zinc.
Happy to see that kid is interested in dad's project
This is so bad ass. Thank you so much for sharing. Aloha!
Nicely done.
This is really neat.
You can add surfactants to prevent the crystals from branching out. The pointiest regions gets deposited first which is why you need to add surfactants to cap those regions.
This would be a a great time lapse
KFC (Kentucky Fried Copper) - extra Cu-rispy !! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
If this comment ☝️ does not end up with at least 1k likes....
This should be pinned.
I don't know why but that killed me
This... is perfect.
Thank you, I may try this with my stepdaughter. Looks like something we could have lost of fun doing.
Is it done
@@jasonolascuaga4734 never got to do this one, but I got her a colored Crystal kit and we also made some crystals on a copper plate and a good size 12v battery
WOW! Filtering made a huge difference!
So this is how popcorn chicken is made
copper bud.
Only the awesome popcorn chicken, oh yeah
you should see his mac and cheese
I say the much darker ones as you go down the growth are rather beautiful and add a more interesting feel towards them, so in my opinion I'd keep the much more beautiful form of darker crystals since it does add to the unique side of it ^-^ amazing video!
I 100% agree
amaziiiing! i love copper,.great work°
3 am and watch someone make tumors for fun
This is how they make chicken nuggets
fvcker gonna fvck 220 am for me....
fvcker gonna fvck copper buds
fvcker gonna fvck it's 3 am buddy
Kyle, they aren't sticky, though. ;)
Work for a automotive front grill plating company and we would have giant nickel and copper crystal in the tank laying everywhere when tank was cleaned out.i didnt know it was crystalized back then.
To preserve crystals from oxydating during electrolysis you can add some sulfuric acid. Grown crystals can be saved in 0.5 -1% H2SO4
it dissolves copper oxides
Copper wont oxidize if you store it dry and dont touch it. I have a piece of copper that im storing my showcase for 15 years now, and it still has that metallic gleam.
@@Bullshitvol2 yup watch a brand new copper sheet metal roof panel about three weeks after being handled while installing and the finger and hand prints are comical
if u add h2so4 during electrolysis, u will make them into cuso4
for saving that crystal....mineral oil / resin / argon is good choicesssss
Like the good old days at the company Platinum facility in South Africa. We mined nickel in the Transvaal and sent it to Norway. The Norwegians refined it like your copper precess. They kept the nickel as payment for their electrcity and sent the sludge from the tanks back to us. We used fluorine chemistry to extract the Platinum group metgals from that sludge.
It grows like acropora. so cool.
The cloudiness you saw after dissolving CuSO4 is not "impurities" - at least not all of it. Copper sulfate is known to partially hydrolyze into insoluble Cu(OH)2 in water. To prevent it add a little bit of sulfuric acid. If don't have it, HCl will suffice, too.
Christal man 🙌...thanks for your video
Use "vasoline" to coat those areas of our wire you do not want to grow crystals on...reduce the growing area and you will increase your crystal size...especially if you also reduce the voltage down to a little bit under 1.0 volts.
Good job.
congratulations! on the wee bairn!!
Really beautiful. I wonder if you were to limit the current instead of the voltage on your power supply, if you'd get thicker individual crystals (instead of the tree branch, fractal-like pattern).
Pretty neat!
"As you can hear, we have a newborn to attend to as well."
* Continues to pick crystals *
LOOOOOL A mad scientist and his long-suffering wife
"Ah don't worry the wife will get to it... Eventually... Or it will just shut itself up, we'll see..... Ok now these crystals" 🤷😂😂😂
Mans got his priorities straight.
Ahh crystal pickin. Best pickin this side of nose pickin.
Very Nice!
Looks like some exotic bud
Iwhat would you get when growing these in a 200 gallon tank over two years or more, cathode centralized in the tank, anode around the perimeter, growing up from the bottom.🤔
Drinking game: every time one phrase “go ahead” is used... take a drink.
Seriously though thank you those were beautiful that was very entertaining do you make art with them after
A couple small adjustments for those interested in doing this.
1: Use copper chloride instead of a sulfate or penta-hydrate! It's easy to make and will produce cleaner crystals much faster! It will also produce some obnoxious gas but not a lot.
2: Buy a platinum coated anode & cathode. They're surprisingly cheap, they won't dissolve as rapidly & they will yield larger crystals!
Once you've made these adjustments, dial up the energy & you'll replicate these results in days!
Only use copper chloride if you want to knock yourself out with chlorine gas!
If you are using copper chloride it’s probably safer to do the electrolysis outside!
Back to WWII hahaha
@@atticspliffer Fuck the Geneva Convention, this is science!!
try using different concentrations of sulphiric acid. You'll see much more clear crystals, or shape change due to growth speed (only applying to clusters)
That shit looks dank af!!!
This is a great project to do with a kid. Make something cool while teaching them the science behind it.
Beautiful
So awesome
Instead of using a Dremmel on the dark ones, try painting it with a little acid flux paste, let it sit for 30-60 secs (more if needed), and then wash it off. I use this technique to polish up the exposed 10 gauge wires inside my box mods. I strip the insulation and use thick solid core to give a steampunk look (like copper tubing) to the box. Over time, they darken and dull, but the flux brightens them right up.
Thanks for sharing! What is the spray you use to clean the crystals off, is it just water?
Spend ONE day exploring alantutorials, and suddenly TH-cam thinks I got a hard-on for educational videos.
I watched ONE VIDEO about making goulash nearly two months ago. There is still goulash in my feed.
@@PorgsLookTasty I'm gonna guess you wanted to learn something when you watched how to make goulash, yes? #alantutorials is a a web series that teaches... nothing. His earliest videos are tutorials like getting a piece of paper wet. As time went on, his uploads got stranger, and eventually it becomes apparent that this was someone's art project, a video series with a beginning, middle, end. When I heard of this, I had to see it, and now YT thinks I wanna learn all the stuff.
If you look up the videos, be warned: some people thought it was real. It's NOT real. Alan is an actor.
I have excess copper solution from purifying metals and jewelry. I will try this and see if it grows copper without adding crystals. It usually starts with silver that i cement out on copper. Reactivity series silver and copper trade places. I hope it works.
Thanks for the video, I'm not understanding what makes the current flow come from the + to deposit the crystals on the - when DC current is from the - to the +. if you use an air
defuser like that of a small fish tank to agitate your solution with an increase in amps up to 1 amp would it not deposit more a lot sooner? Thanks again.
Cool Video man love it and i also liked it :) when you make video's be sure to cut out bits of the video that will help you have people watch the hole video instead of skipping loads like i did :) just abit of friendly advice pal
Don't really want "holes" in the video! But you're right. ~22 minutes was rather tedious for a two minute video.
Have you ever tried putting ~walls (or anything) in the solution to direct the growth a bit ?
Nice video
If you set your power supply to constant current you might get a much more even growing of the crystals.
I wonder how they perform as antennas. Wide bandwidth? Can you grow them while say, supplying a physical vibration frequency to the cathode as it grows? Also, you may get better results if you allow gravity to help you, e.g. placing the anode at the bottom of the container, whilst the cathode remains saturated at the top. I used to have some very old crystal chemistry growing books and was fascinated to learn that the trick to growing crystals is to find out what "feeding" system works best, while resonance and temperature, all the way down to which direction your "feeding" solvent rotated, (clockwise or counter clockwise), to the frequency of the light, to the shape and orientation of the electrodes. It is indeed not only a science but an art. Thank you for the education.
Congrats on the newborn
I like the contrast between lighter and darker crystals personally
Boss: "if you could just go ahead and add copper sulphate, that'd be great"
Now I'm going to have a cup connected to a couple parallel AA battery's on my dresser for a month thank you
U will need a few over 2 months 😂 try d type cells 🙂
Dude, have you ever had a date that lasted as long as this video?
Was wondering if this has ever come across your mind to send one of your crystals to a wood spinner so that u can incase it in epoxy and shape it in to sphere would be cool if possible
that dust is the 'anode mud' that is created as the copper is stripped out of the impure bar. all it is are the impurities from the anode that are left behind during this process. (i have been doing a LOT of research into this kind of process.)
That's awsum
Awesome, they look a little bit like metallic calcified corals!😂👍
The hole looks like it used to be a gas bubble trapped whilst making the bar
So is this just for decoration or is there a purpose other than looking cool as hell? I love copper and things made from copper. Shiny copper is just a beautiful as gold to me. Oxidized copper is even more beautiful.
This is very cool, man! Have you tried growing them in a vacuum and/or anaerobic environment? How does temperature affect crystallization (if at all?)
I've not had too much of a chance to test other growing environments due to how it takes to grow these.
Could have just re-bent the hook🤔 and the reason for making these? What do you do with them?
It would be interesting to see what would be the effect on the crystal growth if one uses an AC current where frequency and amplitude is not symmetrical to 0 point. This could also be combined with different anodes activated at different dimes to add different metals to the crystal.
Dacian Herbei Are you trying to say it has a DC bias offset?
To use different metals you need different solutions. You make the solution by starting with two masses of the same metal in an electrolyte (baking soda and water) and then switching the anode to the receiving object once the electrolyte is saturated ( blue for copper). You can do this with almost every metal.
When using some metals the voltage controls the color(oxidation states) so you can literally paint the surface with colored metals.
However, the donor metal must be anode and the receiving object cathode.
richard vaughn yes this is what I meant. But also it would be interesting to have an AC current with really low frequency to create like a wave pattern like the waves of a sea.
Dacian Herbei Doesnt work that way. The crystals form the same way regardless of the current. Maybe you should attach the anode to a slow moving arm that swings back and forth once each day. So that the thickness of deposits would cause a waviness. (thickest deposits will be at the lowest resistance path...the shortest distance between the 2 electrodes)
So I was suggested this video while watching a NileRed video about making skatole. God damn it.
Just wondering if this expands the amount of copper or if there is a purpose for making elements into crystals beyond that of just making them for the sake of making them? Are they meant for specimen collections?
The process reminds me of electroplating. I have heard of something called electroforming, can you show that?
In Anatolia it was dicovered how to extract, or smelt, Copper metal from Malachite, circa 6,000 BC
Amazing! How did you keep the solution from evaporating?
I just had a great idea for next years cannabis cup trophy
YES. My similar thoughts. They totally look like little copper nugz. I second your notion.
Someone needs to create a strain that is reddish orange and name it copper
Dequartation you can extract copper crystals,
Silver too.
And you can get the gold
Have you ever tried a larger container and chain linked anodes on 2 to 3 sides?
What would happen if you crank up the current the last day or so? Would it coat the crystals with a stronger layer of fine copper?
Mmmmm popcorn chicken lol. That was really cool. How do u get other colours?
NICE
Pretty neat. You should have run that Anode out
How about an aux jack cord as a starting point? Cut it two inches from the jack, strip the casing off and fan the wires out. Then just clamp it to the power. Depending on the size wire inside you could have lots of starting points.
Soak the crystals in clear resin to stabilize, then make jewelry. Would definitely sell.
@@Aaron-qr3tg down boy! Chill. People would actually eat it up and buy it. While I prefer it in it's natural state. I am sure most would buy it
nice!