TH-cam algorithm: here is a video of pure silver crystal trees being cleaned and harvested Me: why? TH-cam algorithm: do you want to watch it? Me: a hundred percent
Metal salt "transmutation" is well documented in history. It's where the idea of transmuting other metals into gold came from. The idea was that "oil of vitriol" that has the essence of a higher metal (in this case, silver) could wash out the impurities of a lower metal, leaving behind a greater quantity of higher metal. We now know that what's actually going on is that due to metals like Iron being more reactive than copper, the iron would displace the copper in copper sulfate, leaving a thin layer of copper on the surface of the iron, and converting an equivalent amount of copper sulfate to Iron sulfate. The novel part of the process used in this video compared to the well known sulfate process is that the electrical current serves to drive the reaction past the equilibrium point. In short, while alchemists would be amazed by his process, they would also have a pretty clear grasp on what processes are at play, and would be more surprised by the quantity of silver 'made' rather than the fact that he got silver at all.
I just started my own silver cell without a fume hood but I am working outside with a fan going & away from public. It's only been an hour since I started & there's already crystals forming around the stainless steel pot! Thanks for all your informative videos @sreetips!! Wish I could post pictures on here...
On Aug 14th 2020 the value of that 1551 grams of silver was $1334.91 USD. I'd love to see a breakdown of the costs for impure materials, chemicals, electricity, the costs associated with casting it into bars, and the cost of safely disposing of waste.
Thank you for the super slow, super close look at the crystals on bowl both in and out of solution. That was an amazing sight to behold. I can only imagine how epic is must be in person. You rock, Sreetips. 🤘❤🤘
😲That looks gorgeous. I'd love to keep it in that crystal form as an art piece with the blue liquid frozen in time. The time lapse video on the copper is AWESOME!
Time lapse of the cement silver forming on the copper and falling to the bottom was really neat to see. I don't remember seeing that particular footage in earlier videos. Really gives you a good visual for the chemical reaction and how much silver is actually coming out of that small amount of electrolyte. Great content!
have you ever considered taking some of the larger attractive crystals and immersing them in clear acrylic before they oxidize to create some curios..could it turn a tidy side project? i'd like to look at a perfect silver crystal under glass. gold forms crystals as well, perhaps with a gentler process than the stump remover. your process creates something rather rare in nature, as a side product. toward the end you showed very fine silver 'cementing' to the copper sheeting...those are fabulously fine detail. how hard would it be to use tweezers to remove it and slowly lower it into acrylic? also thinking polishing small magnifying dimples into the 'globe' would further attract the mesmerized mind. i'm a true fan of crystalline expressions, and you might have a fidget for us there in your stainless steel cauldron, that likely would generate better than by the kg bulk.
Incase anyone was wondering, as of 5/1/2021, silver is selling at .84 per gram, therefore this batch has generated him $1302.84. Edit: this makes all the times my chemistry teacher said 'It pays to learn chemistry.' Hit home.
Jason, this is my hobby. I’ve got much silver to process. I just keep cranking out pure silver. I don’t sell it because the price is too low right now. Maybe when silver gets to $100. Even then, I’ll only sell it when I need paper to pay bills and buy food.
This is the type of chemistry that would have got my school science class flipping out over solutions, chrystals and reactions. Well I'm flipping out a bit about this lot right now. It's totally brilliant.
😳 those are absolutely beautiful. I’ve got 500ozt of sterling and sweeps to process. I started up two cells. Lol. You got some beauties my friend. You should pull out some of the bigger ones and keep them.
Holly shit... In ancient Hungarian folk tales, in the fay land, dragons living in magical metal forests. Lead forest, silver forest, gold forest... And those forests usually round. You just made yourself a magic forest.
Yeah, my first thought was this needs some macro photography, I so wanted to see more of the detail. Especially when the crystals were still in solution, but also when they were washed. I also wanted to know how fragile they are. Are they durable enough for instance to be encased in a way that they will not discolour over time. I would rather own a silver crystal than a piece of jewellery tbh, far more beautiful.
One of the best vids ive seen on the chemistry behind the pour. Unreal. Absolutely stunning images from the crystalline formation in the electrolyte solution to the timelapse Cu dissolving with Au. Unreal. Wow!
As someone who spent 20 + years in the lab as a bucket chemist (those who know will understand!) I admire your technique and envy your set up. How do you go about disposal of your waste though? Isn't that rather expensive? I am glad how you stress the safety aspects from time to time and also wear your PPE, tough shoes etc. I used to have to deal with boiling conc. sulphuric acid under reflux on a concrete mantle and every so often it would finally eat through the glass Kjeldahl flask and BOOM! Not fun!! It nearly always happened just as I went to lunch....
@@sreetips concentrated sulphuric at 360 degrees c long enough slowly eats through the glass. Its a very slow reaction. Possibly the fact that there is also borax and copper sulphate in the tube and it boils for an hour or so 3 to 4times a day.
I used to love making crystals when I was working at a high school at one time as the lab tech. The students were blown away by the colours and shapes and when they helped me make some copper sulphate crystals they were blown away. We made some beautiful crystals, one was even as large as your hand and it was so clear it looked like bright blue glass. I made sure to take the time to explain why they made different shapes (molecular angles), why some were square, rhombic etc. I only hope I sparked some interest in one of them... I was lucky that I had a high school teacher who didn't think girls couldn't do science and encouraged my interests in chemistry during years 9 and 10. In the 70s and early 80s girls didn't do the hard sciences (chemistry and physics) only the 'soft' ones such as biology or environmental science. He once gave the few of us who were a bit brighter a geological map of the nearby mountains (Mount Dandenong and the lower Great Dividing Range, Victoria, Australia) and asked us if we could figure out what order the rocks had been laid down, what types they were, their origin and what geological action had taken place such as volcanic, glacial erosion etc. It made for some spirited discussions between the four of us as we could see how some rocks had been shifted up or slammed down. Mr Hall if you are out there somewhere.... thank you for your encouragement to dive deeper into this magical world of science - I can never thank you enough.
I had a lab set up in my basement as a young boy. I was fascinated by science and chemistry. This hobby of mine is a spin off of that season of my life. Like getting to be that kid again. The first time I stuck a piece of copper wire into a silver nitrate solution and watched the silver come out of solution like magic, I was hooked. That was almost eleven years ago.
@@sreetips I wish I could set a lab up here but the permits I would need to get from local government etc would be super expensive and difficult to obtain.
Do you ever pluck any of those gorgeous big crystals out from the bowl with tweezers or something before dumping the whole lot to preserve some nice specimens?
I did silver chloride experiments in high school and the crystals of silver looked transparent like when you put the copper in your rinse solution. Beautiful.
It's always so incredible to see silver just grow! Grow in the crystals in the stainless steel bowl and this one was very interesting to see on the copper!! Don't see it like that to often!! Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
Chandler Morris she finds silver jewelry, flatware, bowls and other sterling silver. I don’t “melt in down” but rather I dissolve it in nitric acid and separate the silver from the copper that’s alloyed with the silver. Then I precipitate the silver on copper metal, collect the resulting silver powder, and melt the 99% pure silver powder into shot that I use as feed stock for my electrolytic silver cell. In the cell all remaining impurities are remove by the cell and I end up with absolutely pure elemental silver metal. Close to five nines fine. That’s 99,999 parts per one hundred thousand
@@sreetips So as a person who frequents this side of TH-cam I have to ask "What got you to the point of your metal working ability?" Where did you start in this line of business?
My wife sold scrap gold to a guy at the flea market. She bought it at yard sales. Made a nice profit until I discovered he was giving her $150 for $500 worth of metal. After that we began selling the scrap on eBay ourselves. Did well for several years. Then in 2010 I began to wonder what folks were doing with the scrap gold that I sold them. Started snooping around about learning to refine it myself. But there was nothing. No books, no magazines, no periodicals, no information at all. TH-cam was new and there were videos with bits and pieces. But they left out critical details and directed you to a web site for a fee to get the rest. Then I stumbled onto the goldrefiningforum.com my user name there is kadriver. With the help of those guys i began to learn. A year later I posted my first refining video on TH-cam. Then forgot about it. A year later while surfing the web I came across my video. To my astonishment it had 92k views and my channel had 1600 subscribers. I realized that I had struck digital gold. But that it would only pay off if I gave it all away. Most refiners would rather take their refining secrets to the grave. But I decided to make videos with as much detail as I could, remembering how difficult it was to learn and how nice it would have been to have videos, like mine, available to view back when I was learning. The rest is history. Documented for all to see, enjoy, and learn from, without anything left to the imagination. To borrow a quote from General George S Patton, “I have precisely the right instrument, at precisely the right moment in time at precisely the right place. An opportunity like this may not happen again for another thousand years!” What a ride. And that’s how I got started at all this.
I always love and enjoy when u do ur videos. And the process. It’s just an amazing journey to see what u achieve. It’s just eye candy for my eyes. Always. 👌 great video ✅
Electrochemistry is the most efficient and environmentally friendly way to clean silver and copper. I love electrochemistry! The wires from the power source are better made thicker and without connections.
@12:52 anyone else have flashbacks to watching Bill Nye do a successful experiment on PBS while growing up? That sincere sound of wonder at the natural world and how it works 🙂
Im so envious. I've collected many jewelers tools and mastered my soldering techniques. I work with copper and brass because i can not find reasonable priced silver and gold. Lol
We bought $200 worth of scrap gold and silver this morning at a church yard sale. Paid five bucks. It’s out there, but it won’t just fall in your lap. We got up at 5am, to arrive at the church at 6am to be first in line for the sale that began at 7am.
FANTASTIC. What would the situation be if you start the process with a .999 bar? Would would need to loose the entire bar in transmutation. Please forgive my ignorance. This was my introduction to this possibility THANK YOU MUCH for the share
Wow this guy is smart af he def has some chemistry classes under his belt would love to learn this stuff im pretty sure hes taking that silver shot from old electronics and turning it into clean sliver bars most likely what a genius. I just payed almost 1100 for a kilo of silver and has a few kilos.
This work saves reserver in nature too. But they still mine more and more, there is many place where silver is secondary. These reactions and crystals are so beautiful indeed. When you show same thing in paper, that give some clue, but isn't same thing. You have choiced nice job for you.
@@daallen7636 Something easily fixed by instead using piezoelectric pickups if it were an issue. There would also be the added bonus of not needing to route the body and block some of the finish with magnetic pickups
I wish I was able to take a high res photo of that cell! that is phenomenal! with enough lighting you could take a very interesting overhead photo. Thanks for the video!
Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are images of dynamic systems - the pictures of Chaos.
خدمت استاد بزرگ استاد در ابتدا نیتریک اولیه شما چند درصد بود ودر ضمن در تیزاب شما اسید کلریدریک رو ازرو جلد چهار لیتری اسید ۳۱ و اعشاری بود ولی نیتریک تیزاب رو می فرمائید متشکرم
You could sell the trees to as lab grown specimens to mineral collectors, rock shops and even Tucson rock and gem show, that be if they survive transport... Is all the silver coming from electronic "junk" ? I appreciate your time spent in responding, thanks !
Incase you're wondering, 1552 grams of silver equates to approximately 50 ounces of silver which is currently worth $1350/USD.
A man of culture, I see.
Not for long.
Dollar per dollar? That sound worthless
Cool to see you used Troy ounces in your calculation
Tylor Buster uh... wrong idea bud our dollar is weaker lol so same buying power
This was a cool randomly recommended video
You too, eh?
Lol same
Yup
thanks yt very cool
Same!
I would love to have a few of the "trees" of the pure silver crystal suspended in some acrylic as a paperweight. That's absolutely GORGEOUS.
I second that comment
I third, what a great idea! Would be a great art/business project.
Betcha the silver cold hold up to being enrobed in glass
-classier
chase cahoon the problem with glass is is dense and hard so it would be hard to not damage the crystals and epoxy would work just as well
TH-cam algorithm: here is a video of pure silver crystal trees being cleaned and harvested
Me: why?
TH-cam algorithm: do you want to watch it?
Me: a hundred percent
same
I love it :D
yes
yup.
legendary post.
I bet medieval alchemists watching this would assume you had discovered transmutation lol.
or they are like Damn these guys having figured how to turn silver into gold yet.
Metal salt "transmutation" is well documented in history. It's where the idea of transmuting other metals into gold came from. The idea was that "oil of vitriol" that has the essence of a higher metal (in this case, silver) could wash out the impurities of a lower metal, leaving behind a greater quantity of higher metal.
We now know that what's actually going on is that due to metals like Iron being more reactive than copper, the iron would displace the copper in copper sulfate, leaving a thin layer of copper on the surface of the iron, and converting an equivalent amount of copper sulfate to Iron sulfate. The novel part of the process used in this video compared to the well known sulfate process is that the electrical current serves to drive the reaction past the equilibrium point.
In short, while alchemists would be amazed by his process, they would also have a pretty clear grasp on what processes are at play, and would be more surprised by the quantity of silver 'made' rather than the fact that he got silver at all.
HE'S TURNING COPPER INTO SILVER!!!!
@@stumbling I just poopy diaper
Rather, they would probably start making more bagdad batteries. electroplating isnt new.
I just started my own silver cell without a fume hood but I am working outside with a fan going & away from public. It's only been an hour since I started & there's already crystals forming around the stainless steel pot! Thanks for all your informative videos @sreetips!!
Wish I could post pictures on here...
Bravo
upload to google photos and post the link to it
Whats the blue liquid called?
@@brandonrafferty1575 electrolyte
@@Rustic-Minerals-Jewelry can you just buy it? If so. Wherr?
That silver is clearly contaminated, better send it all to me for proper disposal 😂🤓😎
Silver
J Marie Hey love!
hahaha
🤣😂🤣😂...😒
nice one mate 😂😂😂
That has to be one of the most beautiful things I have seen. I love the colour of the electrolite and the shape of those crystals.
Electrolyte*
@@CrossedCoder thank you, sadly, I knew it's spelt that way.
You should have some time lapse on the silver building up 🕵🏻
Yes
That would be totally cool!
that would be cool
On Aug 14th 2020 the value of that 1551 grams of silver was $1334.91 USD. I'd love to see a breakdown of the costs for impure materials, chemicals, electricity, the costs associated with casting it into bars, and the cost of safely disposing of waste.
How many processes that are profitable to eliminate the waste. That would be one heck of a set up, put ALL the expense in a model and run it.
Thank you for the super slow, super close look at the crystals on bowl both in and out of solution. That was an amazing sight to behold. I can only imagine how epic is must be in person. You rock, Sreetips. 🤘❤🤘
Yea, I have to second that statement . Blue to silver/white was quite amazing in itself.
Plot twist: This is his daily routine of making Silver cereal, which is why he ends the video with a bowl of silver and a spoon.
Breakfast of Champions - Silver Flakes they’rrrrrrrre Grrrrrrrreat !! 🐯
Stuff like this is the reason why I love chemistry. Amazing!
😲That looks gorgeous. I'd love to keep it in that crystal form as an art piece with the blue liquid frozen in time. The time lapse video on the copper is AWESOME!
Time lapse of the cement silver forming on the copper and falling to the bottom was really neat to see. I don't remember seeing that particular footage in earlier videos. Really gives you a good visual for the chemical reaction and how much silver is actually coming out of that small amount of electrolyte. Great content!
I usually don’t like videos on here, but this one is too cool not to. Chemistry is such an amazing form of science and art. Truly beautiful, man.
Wow it's so beautiful to see silver crystal in that form it's so pure and beautiful absolutely fantastic video awesome 😎✌️
Noooo! Scraping off those beautiful crystals made my heart hurt a little.
Love the falling "blankets" of silver during the time lapse. Great video!
have you ever considered taking some of the larger attractive crystals and immersing them in clear acrylic before they oxidize to create some curios..could it turn a tidy side project? i'd like to look at a perfect silver crystal under glass. gold forms crystals as well, perhaps with a gentler process than the stump remover. your process creates something rather rare in nature, as a side product. toward the end you showed very fine silver 'cementing' to the copper sheeting...those are fabulously fine detail. how hard would it be to use tweezers to remove it and slowly lower it into acrylic? also thinking polishing small magnifying dimples into the 'globe' would further attract the mesmerized mind. i'm a true fan of crystalline expressions, and you might have a fidget for us there in your stainless steel cauldron, that likely would generate better than by the kg bulk.
So glad you showed us the silver crystals, a glimpse was not enough.
Bravo
Incase anyone was wondering, as of 5/1/2021, silver is selling at .84 per gram, therefore this batch has generated him $1302.84.
Edit: this makes all the times my chemistry teacher said 'It pays to learn chemistry.' Hit home.
dunno what it cost him in terms of impure shot but im curious about his net profit
10 Days later and it's already $0.88 per gram. Silver just keeps trending up and up and up.
Jason, this is my hobby. I’ve got much silver to process. I just keep cranking out pure silver. I don’t sell it because the price is too low right now. Maybe when silver gets to $100. Even then, I’ll only sell it when I need paper to pay bills and buy food.
@@sreetips It is starting to look like that time may be soon.
@@sreetips how much money did it cost you to produce that batch? Not including your labor and equipment. Just the materials.
This is the type of chemistry that would have got my school science class flipping out over solutions, chrystals and reactions. Well I'm flipping out a bit about this lot right now. It's totally brilliant.
Thanks jack
If seeing that pure silver crystal doesn't make you smile I don't know what would. Gorgeous!!
😳 those are absolutely beautiful. I’ve got 500ozt of sterling and sweeps to process. I started up two cells. Lol. You got some beauties my friend. You should pull out some of the bigger ones and keep them.
Wow !!! Your videos are awesome. I love the fact that you never waste anything. That silver came out just beautiful. Thank you. 👍😎🇨🇦
Holly shit...
In ancient Hungarian folk tales, in the fay land, dragons living in magical metal forests. Lead forest, silver forest, gold forest... And those forests usually round.
You just made yourself a magic forest.
That silver cell is so beautiful!
Can you imagine how amazing really close up photos would look and then blow them up to a large size..... incredible.
Yeah, my first thought was this needs some macro photography, I so wanted to see more of the detail. Especially when the crystals were still in solution, but also when they were washed. I also wanted to know how fragile they are. Are they durable enough for instance to be encased in a way that they will not discolour over time. I would rather own a silver crystal than a piece of jewellery tbh, far more beautiful.
@@lindyashford7744 I completely agree, completely unique and beautiful.
12:50 “had to come take a look at this, get it on the video” absolutely love this man
This was one of those rare times I stopped the video smiling and made sure I pressed the like button. Fantastic work, and very interesting
I could watch your videos all day and night long. Neat stuff Sreetips...
One of the best vids ive seen on the chemistry behind the pour. Unreal. Absolutely stunning images from the crystalline formation in the electrolyte solution to the timelapse Cu dissolving with Au. Unreal. Wow!
2:24 that looks incredible in so many ways!
As someone who spent 20 + years in the lab as a bucket chemist (those who know will understand!) I admire your technique and envy your set up. How do you go about disposal of your waste though? Isn't that rather expensive?
I am glad how you stress the safety aspects from time to time and also wear your PPE, tough shoes etc. I used to have to deal with boiling conc. sulphuric acid under reflux on a concrete mantle and every so often it would finally eat through the glass Kjeldahl flask and BOOM! Not fun!!
It nearly always happened just as I went to lunch....
Boiling sulfuric will dissolve glass? I never would have known.
@@sreetips concentrated sulphuric at 360 degrees c long enough slowly eats through the glass. Its a very slow reaction. Possibly the fact that there is also borax and copper sulphate in the tube and it boils for an hour or so 3 to 4times a day.
Amazing. It looks like a magical cave from out of a fantasy movies.
YOU ARE AN ARTIST!!!! Love watching (most) rarely comment.
Dropped a little bit at the very end there hope you picked that up. 😁
I heard it hit the surface of the cardboard at the very end.
fascinating stuff. its interesting how the crystals look almost identical in structure and shape to living, branching corals in the ocean/ aquarium.
That was awesome to watch! And looking online at silver worth that 1551g = ~$1300.00 as of 4/23/21. Refinement process is amazing too!
and almost 1200.00 USD to the money a year from your comment here in far off 2022 good Sir.
lesson being, silver holds wealth pretty well, or at least well enough for a long haul hodl
I used to love making crystals when I was working at a high school at one time as the lab tech. The students were blown away by the colours and shapes and when they helped me make some copper sulphate crystals they were blown away. We made some beautiful crystals, one was even as large as your hand and it was so clear it looked like bright blue glass. I made sure to take the time to explain why they made different shapes (molecular angles), why some were square, rhombic etc. I only hope I sparked some interest in one of them...
I was lucky that I had a high school teacher who didn't think girls couldn't do science and encouraged my interests in chemistry during years 9 and 10. In the 70s and early 80s girls didn't do the hard sciences (chemistry and physics) only the 'soft' ones such as biology or environmental science. He once gave the few of us who were a bit brighter a geological map of the nearby mountains (Mount Dandenong and the lower Great Dividing Range, Victoria, Australia) and asked us if we could figure out what order the rocks had been laid down, what types they were, their origin and what geological action had taken place such as volcanic, glacial erosion etc. It made for some spirited discussions between the four of us as we could see how some rocks had been shifted up or slammed down.
Mr Hall if you are out there somewhere.... thank you for your encouragement to dive deeper into this magical world of science - I can never thank you enough.
I had a lab set up in my basement as a young boy. I was fascinated by science and chemistry. This hobby of mine is a spin off of that season of my life. Like getting to be that kid again. The first time I stuck a piece of copper wire into a silver nitrate solution and watched the silver come out of solution like magic, I was hooked. That was almost eleven years ago.
@@sreetips I wish I could set a lab up here but the permits I would need to get from local government etc would be super expensive and difficult to obtain.
Do you ever pluck any of those gorgeous big crystals out from the bowl with tweezers or something before dumping the whole lot to preserve some nice specimens?
They are fragile and won’t stay together very well
I wonder if it's possible to cast one in resin
@@sreetips Bummer...
@@sreetips try heating super glue into a vapour it might harden up
Very beautiful white crystals.
The silver cell is in fact a PLATING device :)
Great video and thanks for showing and teaching ;)
Lemme drink that blue gatorade looking stuff it looks 🔥
It does look good huh. I love gatorade, koolaid, etc.
It is electrolyte so. It is a gatorade. But dangerous haha
Thinking same, said to myself idk what that is but it'll kill ya I know that
Forbidden Gatorade
If I understand how he set up the reaction, that’s copper nitrate solution. Very bad to drink!
I did silver chloride experiments in high school and the crystals of silver looked transparent like when you put the copper in your rinse solution. Beautiful.
It's always so incredible to see silver just grow! Grow in the crystals in the stainless steel bowl and this one was very interesting to see on the copper!! Don't see it like that to often!!
Have a GREAT Day My Friend!!!
Shane York didn’t know I could grow silver. What do u grow it out of? Like what are the ingredients to “grow” silver?
This dude is so damn smart when it comes to chemistry
These silver crystal vids are my favorite
That was so beautiful, I’ve never seen blue that color before.. unbelievable
Sir, You have truly gained a mastery of Alchemy
Love the crystallized silver. I add it to my gold paydirt bags, really makes em' pop. Great to see the process. Thanks for sharing 👍🐊
“Hydrochloric aaaacid” I never get tired of hearing it
I love gems, rocks, gold and silver, but your vid beats them all. Wonderful hobby. 👍
Just where are you getting all that silver "shot" you're purifying?
1550 gm/ 31 gm/troy oz x $26.50/oz = $1,325.00 as of 8/14/2020. Quite a haul.
My wife finds it at local sales
When you say she finds it, do you mean it's like silver dishes or jewelry that you then melt down and turn to shot in order to purify it?
Chandler Morris she finds silver jewelry, flatware, bowls and other sterling silver. I don’t “melt in down” but rather I dissolve it in nitric acid and separate the silver from the copper that’s alloyed with the silver. Then I precipitate the silver on copper metal, collect the resulting silver powder, and melt the 99% pure silver powder into shot that I use as feed stock for my electrolytic silver cell. In the cell all remaining impurities are remove by the cell and I end up with absolutely pure elemental silver metal. Close to five nines fine. That’s 99,999 parts per one hundred thousand
@@sreetips So as a person who frequents this side of TH-cam I have to ask "What got you to the point of your metal working ability?" Where did you start in this line of business?
My wife sold scrap gold to a guy at the flea market. She bought it at yard sales. Made a nice profit until I discovered he was giving her $150 for $500 worth of metal. After that we began selling the scrap on eBay ourselves. Did well for several years. Then in 2010 I began to wonder what folks were doing with the scrap gold that I sold them. Started snooping around about learning to refine it myself. But there was nothing. No books, no magazines, no periodicals, no information at all. TH-cam was new and there were videos with bits and pieces. But they left out critical details and directed you to a web site for a fee to get the rest. Then I stumbled onto the goldrefiningforum.com my user name there is kadriver. With the help of those guys i began to learn. A year later I posted my first refining video on TH-cam. Then forgot about it. A year later while surfing the web I came across my video. To my astonishment it had 92k views and my channel had 1600 subscribers. I realized that I had struck digital gold. But that it would only pay off if I gave it all away. Most refiners would rather take their refining secrets to the grave. But I decided to make videos with as much detail as I could, remembering how difficult it was to learn and how nice it would have been to have videos, like mine, available to view back when I was learning. The rest is history. Documented for all to see, enjoy, and learn from, without anything left to the imagination. To borrow a quote from General George S Patton, “I have precisely the right instrument, at precisely the right moment in time at precisely the right place. An opportunity like this may not happen again for another thousand years!” What a ride. And that’s how I got started at all this.
Thanks for the time lapse of the silver cementing on the copper. I didnt expect it to be so fast, or for there to be s much.
I have no idea whats going on but it looks pretty damn sweet
I always love and enjoy when u do ur videos. And the process. It’s just an amazing journey to see what u achieve. It’s just eye candy for my eyes. Always. 👌 great video ✅
That’s close to $1400 worth of silver right there!
Electrochemistry is the most efficient and environmentally friendly way to clean silver and copper.
I love electrochemistry!
The wires from the power source are better made thicker and without connections.
@12:52 anyone else have flashbacks to watching Bill Nye do a successful experiment on PBS while growing up? That sincere sound of wonder at the natural world and how it works 🙂
Im so envious. I've collected many jewelers tools and mastered my soldering techniques. I work with copper and brass because i can not find reasonable priced silver and gold. Lol
We bought $200 worth of scrap gold and silver this morning at a church yard sale. Paid five bucks. It’s out there, but it won’t just fall in your lap. We got up at 5am, to arrive at the church at 6am to be first in line for the sale that began at 7am.
Great video, you make it look easy but it’s really “the long game” that counts.
My silver cell never sleeps
Is there a gold cell for purification? Or are the other ways you demonstrated the best?
Patrick... Sreetips has already made a video about a gold cell..
FANTASTIC. What would the situation be if you start the process with a .999 bar? Would would need to loose the entire bar in transmutation. Please forgive my ignorance. This was my introduction to this possibility
THANK YOU MUCH for the share
I have a video on the gold cell called the “Wohlwill Process”
This is so cool, and one of those things my generation just doesnt quite understand yet that you guys are good at!
I’ll come sweep your shop anytime!
I had no idea silver could have a crystal form. So beautiful. So precious :)
In the words of Beakman's World, " Science Rules!!! "
Instantly had the guitar riff going through my head as soon as I read that.
Wait... wasn't that in the intro to Bill Nye The Science Guy?
Wow this guy is smart af he def has some chemistry classes under his belt would love to learn this stuff im pretty sure hes taking that silver shot from old electronics and turning it into clean sliver bars most likely what a genius. I just payed almost 1100 for a kilo of silver and has a few kilos.
What did you do today?
Sreetips: Oh you know just grew some kilos of silver crystals
I just harvested the silver yesterday. I need to melt some cement silver. Excited to try a larger propane melt furnace. Watch for the video
The comment you made about building a multi kilo furnace now makes complete sense!
Government is like :
THATS ILLEGAL.
But its not lol
can i smoke it
@@CottageHound yes, yes you can but can i watch?
I feel like I just watched him make meth
@@CottageHound You can smoke anything just got to get it hot enough, you should record it for umm scientific purposes
Watching the time lapse of the Silver cementing out onto the copper was excellent - Thanks :-)
Man! Looks like moonlight on frost covered Christmas trees.
@Steven Lengenfelder And then, in his recent video, there was an actual TREE growing! Fantastic!
I’m loving your videos. Incredibly helpful in my current pursuits. Thank you so much!
Sir, you remind me of Professor Julius Sumner Miller the famous physics teacher;-))
Excellent!
This work saves reserver in nature too. But they still mine more and more, there is many place where silver is secondary.
These reactions and crystals are so beautiful indeed. When you show same thing in paper, that give some clue, but isn't same thing.
You have choiced nice job for you.
Gold refining is my primary hobby. Silver is more or less a by product of my gold refining.
New drinking game. Take a shot every time he says "pure silver crystal"
I’m drunk af😂😂
i died
Nah a shot for the words silver. Crystal.and or pure when any of those are said then take a shot then bask in the glory of a few hundred kill streak
I bought some from sreetips, absolutely amazing in person. Most beautiful metal I've ever seen. You guys have to get some. They are mesmerizing !!!
Outstanding, Chief. 👌🏽
Man, that is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing this!
I'd love to see those crystals suspended in resin
I'd like to see a guitar body that was a suspension of silver crystals in epoxy with varying blue color to simulate the electrolyte in the cell
@@GiveThemHorns that would cost a shit ton and probably make noise in the pickup
@@daallen7636 Something easily fixed by instead using piezoelectric pickups if it were an issue. There would also be the added bonus of not needing to route the body and block some of the finish with magnetic pickups
Your videos are awesome! So informative. Just checked out your eBay store and couldn’t believe you live in SC. Greetings from another SC native.
I should’ve studied more in science 🤓 it’s so interesting and your pretty good at this next get going on that time machine
I wish I was able to take a high res photo of that cell! that is phenomenal! with enough lighting you could take a very interesting overhead photo. Thanks for the video!
2:55 You ever just, take a little slurp just to see what it tastes like?
Forbidden gatorade
I bet its electrifying.
Hard to believe how much can you learn just surfing YT. Thanks! Fascinating!
Yep seems like he's making meth to me I'm gonna have to call him Walter now
First thing I thought of lol we are currently watching BB, on season 4 rn I know I'm late but better late than never I guess 🤔😅
@@williamparker9506 I'm still on season 2 :D
Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop. Driven by recursion, fractals are images of dynamic systems - the pictures of Chaos.
looks like healthy marijuana buds in early flowering.
خدمت استاد بزرگ استاد در ابتدا نیتریک اولیه شما چند درصد بود ودر ضمن در تیزاب شما اسید کلریدریک رو ازرو جلد چهار لیتری اسید ۳۱ و اعشاری بود ولی نیتریک تیزاب رو می فرمائید متشکرم
The nitric bottle says 68% to 70% assay.
"Tell me friend, have you turned oxygen to gold yet?"
This is fascinating you TH-cam for suggesting this. That blue was gorgeous.
Our education system sucks and it's done deliberately. My kids are going to be home schooled on youtube.
Random recommendation has earned you a new sub my boy keep up the great work 💪
Welcome to my channel!
Most delightful random video in ages, Thanks, subbed & liked 👍
Excellent, thank you
Didn't know silver could crystallize. So beautiful and fascinating!
Why don't you use a filter or strainer when separating the silver crystals from the electrolyte?
You could sell the trees to as lab grown specimens to mineral collectors, rock shops and even Tucson rock and gem show, that be if they survive transport...
Is all the silver coming from electronic "junk" ?
I appreciate your time spent in responding, thanks !
No, the silver is coming from the 99% impure silver that I add to the anode basket
Pouring the dry crystals into the bowl at the end sounds like a childhood Christmas
This was so much cooler than I thought it would be. Great video
Love the chemistry and the video my friend !
You are a chemist and a magician! Very cool video!