For anyone wanting to try this 3 years later: most ceramics suppliers sell aluminium oxide really cheap - cheaper than what you pay for the acid and the foil, and a whole lot safer too!
this guy doing chemistry is basically your mother cooking, she does everything by hand, it looks very dangerous, you are scared for her life but the output is amazing.
Thats safety standard in Russia. Defend against cold: Vodka. Defend against acid: Skin. Defend against flat tire: Concrete. Defend against bored: Vodka and fistfight.
Talking about the chromium oxide, "it's dangerous. Don't touch it." A few frames later, his fingers are covered in green powder. This is what I used to refer to as "ghetto chemistry." This guy has definitely taken it down a notch, though.
Please use H2 and O. flame and alumina refractory crucible. I did that many years ago during my master's degree program. The quality of the resulting poly crystalline ruby was pretty good.
Seems like any kind of chemical flame will only introduce contaminants into the crystal structure such as the bubbles often found in Verneuil produced stones. Is it possible to use a high strength laser to melt the reactants together? Especially if this could be done in a vacuum chamber reducing the likelihood of oxidation.
@@mnomadvfx I would imagine so since it can be done using microwaves to create plasma to melt it or arc welders with a graphite electrode and strong enough lasers get well above the needed temperatures it's just about if it's economically viable more than anything for the power needed to achieve it with lasers just like nuclear fusion, like we can sustained fusion going with lasers but it takes more power to get it going than it produces currently
@@mnomadvfx I have suceeded with making rubies and other synthetics with CO2 lasers. The pros of that method is you can reach temperatures of over 3000C with short exposure times. Meaning you can very quickly produce small blobs of rubies and other synthetics. The temperatue limit is dependent on the amount of energy you can input vs the dissipation of the heat. Higher power CO2's would drive the temperature up further and allow a larger heatzone. The drawbacks are that the heating is incredibly localised. This can be combatted by defocusing the laser increasing the beam cross section therefore lowering the intensity. But there will be a laser power threshold that has to be met. And it is actually possible to burn yourself a crater into your synthetics if the exposure is too intense. For rubies in particular, this is also dependent on the amount of chromium oxide used too as this has a very higher melting point of near 3000C vs the 2000C needed for aluminium oxide. You also will get stubborn aluminium oxide stuck to the rubies. Most rubies created are polycrystalline and low quality. For example they will have some structural weaknesses due to internal cracking. This is likely caused by sudden thermal changes. If there was a way to ease off the laser power to slow down the cooling however this would be combatted. But I was using a regular laser cutter. One method I did try was a dynamic rather than static exposure to the powder. I also tried making an almost aluminium reflection chamber like crucible. One benefit is you can cause some coalescence and grow your rubies by heating and collapsing surrounding powder into the molten ruby. If the exposure remains you can get this to form a larger more uniform sphere or spheroid. 95% of the time the rubies will be opaque or low opacity. However I have managed in making a couple now that have some translucency.
What about making a crucible wrapped in a coil. Heat the sample with an engraving laser. The hope is that if you can heat a tiny spot to the point it melts, then it will conduct and start absorbing energy from the coil that you supply with an ac current. A similar idea would be to drill a tiny hole in the top of the microwave. Shine the laser into the crucible and again, hopefully you can get a tiny bit of consulting alumina that will start absorbing microwaves. Same idea as melting glass in the microwave.
I learned this process about 35 years ago but never put it into practice, my loss! They actually make a special nozzle with a tapper and reservoir on top for the powder, and it goes down through the nozzle and melts as it falls, It's much cleaner, and it keeps all the powder from going everywhere, I was able to use a acetylene torch but all it would do is make a crust, I think I'm going to try it again because you have inspired me! Thanks for a great video I appreciate. Ps. I subscribed!
Oh my God, I don't know if I'm more terrified or amused, but I absolutely love this channel, this is the first video that I found, and I'm dying laughing both from the video and the comments LMAO
Technically speaking, this is ruby glass. It holds a lot of the properties of ruby, but the crystal structure is, well, not there because of how quickly it cools. In labs, the ruby is cooled, under pressure, very slowly to produce a crystal structure identical to naturally occurring. Takes about 8 months. Still, fused rubies, like this, are pretty cool.
Dude... you lost a ruby within 5 mins of having it... that mmiigghhtt be a record... and btw why didn't you turn the grafite CUP right side up? Woulda kept it from blowing away on ya...but hey ur the scientist
He continually tells us of the danger of the green powder but he blows it around the room whilst having no gloves on the whole time. You'd also think he would have known what size hypodermic to attach to the syringe in advance but hey, third time lucky. Somehow, I won't be going into a lab. near him anytime in the future, I'll stick to buying my rubies instead and stay alive in the process.
Impurities already in the graphite cup. A virgin graphite cup would have had to have been used to turn it right side up. There may not have been a virgin available...
Goldsmith / Master Jeweler here: DIY, Certified Electrician, Photovoltaic Technician, Mechanic, Musician yes I learned all the instruments except harp, drums, guitar (that one hurts) You Sir sparked an interesting idea... for that I shall let you in on a little secret. put the mixture in the crucible and put it in a forge, a casting furnace that you can make on your own to prevent your powder being blown away. there is another way to do it just using the crucible no forge. that comes with 50 years experience. Thumbs Up. i Like, OLE!
Very kewl! I'd suggest trying a flour sifter to move the green powder to a fire brick, or graphite, in larger, more even amounts. Have you thought about using a larger amount of powder in a kiln? It would also allow for slower cooling, less or even no cracking! Very kewl experiment! Love it & subscribed! You might see if there's a jeweler that could faucet some of these for you! Try a gem & rock club, lapidary club or even a jewelry store that has a gemologist there. Adding a bit of titanium & iron to the mix can make sapphires. It would be great to find a mix that can give that really pretty blue! TY for sharing! You might want to melt some quartz infused with copper or gold... that can make a really pretty red swirl through an optically clear quartz stone, if done correctly. Beautiful stuff! TY again for sharing! Subbed.
It's certainly not as valuable as natural ruby, and these stones are absolutely teeming with imperfections just due to water in the mixure of the alumina alone, not to mention impurities in the tinfoil (Tinfoil is pretty impure! They alloy it to make it great for wrapping food, but not much else), and iron impurities in the HCl. These stones would be even less valuable than most manmade stones just because they are not very well made. It's more expensive to make these rubies with the components shown than to sell the rubies one would make. These are corrundum and could certainly be crushed into useful abrasive powders, but there really isn't much more use to them.
Dude I love your videos. I don’t care what anyone says. Let’s see some other diyers make some rubies even if they aren’t mined ones. Excellent video as always.
I followed his instructions and my pinky finger is presently floating in Formaldehyde - lucky for me I don't play piano . . . well, not anymore that is.
"You can do this at home!" *Proceeds to use acid, noxious chemicals, syringes and a sex toy* This is great; thanks Russia! My kid is a shoe-in to win the science fair this weekend! This'll show my ex-wife who's an "unfit father;" might even net myself an unsupervised visitation!
Wouldn't it be easier to just buy aluminum oxide? It's pretty cheap. Also I'm confused why it needs to be vibrated out of a syringe when you can just scoop up how much you need.
When I searched this topic in TH-cam, I was secretly hoping this is what the answer would look like: a Futbol Cabbie who side hustles gemstones/lobsters from his van.
You are awesome! You are the king of cool! Thank you so much for sharing this! I love that you scavenge the parts and improvise! I cant wait to check out more of your videos!
Awesome! Another person making ruby at home. Welcome to the team. Thanks for giving ElementMaker some credit in the description. I still beat everyone in making ruby at home though. LOL. Dirty dirty hydrocarbon produced ruby...8 or 9 months ago.
That was cool! 😎 Will you make some to use in jewelry? I'd be interested to see the transformation from rough to faceted stone (or into a bead). Thanks for sharing! 🙂
WHO just casually brings a sex toy into a "DIY ruby" project as though it's just another common household device...for a man....to have just sitting around... Correction: THREE OF THEM sitting around.
I have adverse reactions to hand sanitizer. This recipe boggles my mind! As much as I love rubies and would love to grow my own, I think I am content to live vicariously through you.
Hydrochloric acid is not that dangerous. If it splashes on you just wash it off in a few seconds and nothing will happen. There's a video of a guy on here soaking his hand in it. People are hypersensitive safety Sally's about working with chemicals when common sense is the only safety equipment necessary 90% of the time. Goggles would probably be a good idea though.
@@Muonium1 The acid by itself is the least dangerous thing he's working with lmao. The gas from the foil+acid is hydrogen which is extremely flammable and hydrogen chloride which is poisonous. Chromium oxide is extremely toxic and a strong mutagen (and widely considered to be carcinogenic as well)
i don't buy that you make aluminium oxide by yourself - it looks too white and too pure for your shabby technique you used aluminium foil - such foils typically made from EN-AW 8011 or similar alloys - those are containing usually about 0,5 to 1 % Iron. Also this and similar types of allows contain < 1 % copper, silicon, magnesium for . The yellowish tint pretty sure comes from the ironchloride which gets formed as a byproduct. so if you neutralize and filter that stuff you should get a yellow tinted powder aswell - it does not magically turn white
You could try the last part of that again only with the powder inside the carbon bowl on a stand with a high temp torch under it to see if you get anything larger.
Use a lens from a rear projection t.v. and the Sun. Focus the Sun's rays through the lens onto something that can handle high heat. this method will not blow any material around.
It also won't get hot enough since the light color of the oxides reflects most of the heat away. You need over 2070 degrees Celsius to fuse the oxide feed material. However you need approximately 2200 degrees Celsius to be sufficient to fuse it into a legit single solid crystal. However, again, you need approximately 3000 Celsius at minimum to properly make flame fusion / Verneuil process rubies. The oxide feed material should be molten by the time it lands on the pedestal or platform and it is at this point the growing boule should be in contact with the 2200 degree Celsius portion of the flame. It needs to be molten and fluid enough to crystallize with the growing lattice below. This is done to eliminate the evolution of gasses as the oxides boil, as doing will solidify into a solid froth no better than iron thermite slag which is too corundum.
Matthew Wilson , what if he used a kiln to contain the heat (Except for the top where the magnified sun enters)? Would that allow the temp to rise enough?
@@TheRainHarvester I don't think it would only because of how quickly the heat rise and escape. The convection generated by the expanding hot air leaving the confines of the kiln would pull in the colder outside air into the chamber. Maybe there would be some possible scenario using some form of high temp quartz glass, or white sapphire glass so the sun rays could get inside, but I would imagine it still to be too impractical and expensive. As a thought experiment, I would imagine going the extra mile and adding a purified layer of carbon on top of the ruby feedstock to initially absorb more heat, while also filling the chamber full of argon so that CO2 isn't instantly generated. We're only trying to see if fusing the chromium oxide doped alumina is at all possible under this approach, so quality is of no concern. We just want to see some red or pink coloration. The carbon can be burned off after the fusion attempt. The problem which I foresee would be the thermal conductivity of the kiln floor and the walls of the kiln. The Fresnel lense from the projection TV would have to be used tracking the sun while directing the beam of focused light into the kiln chamber. I was going to attempt working out the math, but I have to leave as my ride is here at the office. Here is a link that you'll need to replace the spaces with dots. I'll work on it later myself just for the sake of learning something new. A final note for now is that it may actually be possible, but many obstacles need to be overcome to achieve this feat. If you have the resources then I say go for it. I tend to overthink things too, so there's that as well. I may sound somewhat discouraging in the above paragraphs, but really, there is always something to learn and I encourage you or anyone else to explore such an experiment. I'll try to get back to this post in the near future to follow up.
@@Bob3519 From what I understand of electric induction heating it mostly works with iron based alloys. Sapphire contains a small amount of iron oxide, so who knows? Ruby can even have a small amount of iron oxide contamination but I don't know to the extent which still allows pigeon blood red, nor do I know how it might effect clarity. I do have ruby samples which I created using thermite as my heat source, and it certainly has tons of iron contamination. Hmmm. I don't think I ever posted a video on the resulting products from that second attempt.
First of all, these pink chunks are not rubby crystals but very fine chromium-doped alumina polycristalline melt. Making synthetic ruby crystals that large requires much more than dropping the raw material mixture on top of a refractory and melting it with a torch. Second, chromium(III) oxide is not a highly toxic nor corrosive substance, and although touching it withought wearing gloves is not recommendable, it is much less dangerous than manipulating concentrated hydrochloric acid like that. Definitely, this video makes chemistry appear like MasterChef, while it is not instructive at all as to crystal synthesis.
Whilst I agree that this is just chromium-doped alumina poly-crystalline melt, it really does not take much more to convert it to a single crystal structure. It can be done solid-state even. One would simply have to make un-doped poly-crystalline alumina, putting both in a furnace and heating them to about 3/4 of the melting point of poly-crystalline alumina for a long enough period of time, depending on the size of your sample, you will get a single crystal formation out of the furnace.
any one that has a shop that looks like mine can't be all bad... sorry elementalmaker.. try to think of it as helping to share the knowledge.. I for one never saw your vid.. But I will go and watch it now along with more of this fellows..
Very very cool! I’m going to make some thank you! Do you know the minimum temp needed? I have an oxyacetalyn torch. Also great shirt, I live near girona!
No, synthetic ruby and sapphire is actually extremely cheap at around $0.10 USD per carat for flawless rough material, compared to hundreds or even thousands of dollars per carat for high-quality natural ruby.
I love your efforts at sharing and you are very easy to watch and for the people saying safety you are informing them and its up to them some people take things to a level it should never go.
I do have a green cutting mat and make jokes, but aside from that I try to keep my content non-overlapping with AVE. No worries though its the circle jerk of internet life, we all copy ideas from each other.
a few questions: How many time you apply the torch to the powder un til see if works? Why only in small mounts dispersed and no use a small compresed nugget to make one? Ty and really great DiY :D
This is amazing, you were able to replicate the work that Elemental maker did. This is excellent because that means I can do this also. But something different, you created aluminum oxide on your own, you didn't buy it. Fantastic.
This is my favourite video from all around youtube. So many paradoxes in one place and such a positive result in the same time.. just wonderful !!! All is in the comments below...i just cant stop laughing.. 😂🤣
I have to say you taken knowledge from many sources and combine them into one with the creative ingenuity that the world needs to grasp onto with all its might and create a new future because so much information has been covered up in suppressed for way too long thank you for your wonderful creative mind and sharing what you know I don't care about the stupid people that criticize how you do things it's amazing to me to see A beautiful mind and you sharing it for all the world to see keep up all your good work together when people unite and learn from one another so many things are possible so many wonderful new creative ideas and things that will take our future to the next level
I love how you casually went:
"Ok, today we are making rubies, we need some tin foil, couple fingers of acid, *a sex toy,* and a syringe..."
He shouldve said, "but not necessarily in that order," lol.
SEXUAL EDUCATION CLASS :D
Lol
I was so caught off guard by him saying that
"This is chromium oxide, don't touch it, it's quite nasty"
*10 sec later hands covered in chromium oxide*
lul
I saw that!
Came here for this XD
I saw that too
Alby The Great Yeah, but Andrew said it first 🤪
@@HeadNtheClouds but I also said too
For anyone wanting to try this 3 years later: most ceramics suppliers sell aluminium oxide really cheap - cheaper than what you pay for the acid and the foil, and a whole lot safer too!
When talking about losing one of the rubies possibly behind his table he says "it was a very sad experience" just adorable :)
Jesus Christ, this is like watching meth lab chemistry.
Lololol OMG YOU ARE RIGHT LOL
THIS. IS. NOT. METH!!
**proceeds to scratch the glass coffee table with ruby**
😁😁😁😁😁😁
My goodness you are so right Caleb Williams....
@@mrkiky *smashes head on table*
*breathes in ruby*
this guy doing chemistry is basically your mother cooking, she does everything by hand, it looks very dangerous, you are scared for her life but the output is amazing.
"Safety is number one priority" no gloves no fume extractor yolo measurement xD
Hahaha i laughed so hard
"don't touch it" (the green substance) *few seconds later the hand is green*
Thats safety standard in Russia. Defend against cold: Vodka. Defend against acid: Skin.
Defend against flat tire: Concrete.
Defend against bored: Vodka and fistfight.
Talking about the chromium oxide, "it's dangerous. Don't touch it." A few frames later, his fingers are covered in green powder. This is what I used to refer to as "ghetto chemistry." This guy has definitely taken it down a notch, though.
"Yolo measurment."🤣
Instructions unclear: put fingers in acid, typing with nose now.
Incredible
Ikr, I do that too often.
Makes huge ruby
Loses it in workshop
*now that... is an epic gamer move*
No seriously bruh gr8 work
First time I've seen a sex toy used in chemistry
I use them to create a chemical reaction 😉
egg vibrators make marvelous stirring beads...
Well then, you should come over to my place & meet my wife.
Evidently, your watching the WRONG movies.
Wait, Ive been watching the wrong ones too.
Please use H2 and O. flame and alumina refractory crucible. I did that many years ago during my master's degree program. The quality of the resulting poly crystalline ruby was pretty good.
Seems like any kind of chemical flame will only introduce contaminants into the crystal structure such as the bubbles often found in Verneuil produced stones.
Is it possible to use a high strength laser to melt the reactants together?
Especially if this could be done in a vacuum chamber reducing the likelihood of oxidation.
@@mnomadvfx I would imagine so since it can be done using microwaves to create plasma to melt it or arc welders with a graphite electrode and strong enough lasers get well above the needed temperatures it's just about if it's economically viable more than anything for the power needed to achieve it with lasers just like nuclear fusion, like we can sustained fusion going with lasers but it takes more power to get it going than it produces currently
@@mnomadvfx I have suceeded with making rubies and other synthetics with CO2 lasers. The pros of that method is you can reach temperatures of over 3000C with short exposure times. Meaning you can very quickly produce small blobs of rubies and other synthetics. The temperatue limit is dependent on the amount of energy you can input vs the dissipation of the heat. Higher power CO2's would drive the temperature up further and allow a larger heatzone. The drawbacks are that the heating is incredibly localised. This can be combatted by defocusing the laser increasing the beam cross section therefore lowering the intensity. But there will be a laser power threshold that has to be met. And it is actually possible to burn yourself a crater into your synthetics if the exposure is too intense. For rubies in particular, this is also dependent on the amount of chromium oxide used too as this has a very higher melting point of near 3000C vs the 2000C needed for aluminium oxide. You also will get stubborn aluminium oxide stuck to the rubies. Most rubies created are polycrystalline and low quality. For example they will have some structural weaknesses due to internal cracking. This is likely caused by sudden thermal changes. If there was a way to ease off the laser power to slow down the cooling however this would be combatted. But I was using a regular laser cutter. One method I did try was a dynamic rather than static exposure to the powder. I also tried making an almost aluminium reflection chamber like crucible. One benefit is you can cause some coalescence and grow your rubies by heating and collapsing surrounding powder into the molten ruby. If the exposure remains you can get this to form a larger more uniform sphere or spheroid. 95% of the time the rubies will be opaque or low opacity. However I have managed in making a couple now that have some translucency.
I would have just ordered sone of those motors from Amazon or Aliexpress, but I guess if you have sex toys laying around to cannibalize...
What about making a crucible wrapped in a coil. Heat the sample with an engraving laser. The hope is that if you can heat a tiny spot to the point it melts, then it will conduct and start absorbing energy from the coil that you supply with an ac current. A similar idea would be to drill a tiny hole in the top of the microwave. Shine the laser into the crucible and again, hopefully you can get a tiny bit of consulting alumina that will start absorbing microwaves. Same idea as melting glass in the microwave.
Jesus Christ, someone give this man a Netflix series.
ahahahahaahah :D
And a pair of gloves touching this shit will fuck your hands up
And turn him Black and gay
KushMasterSKITZ I'm on it 😂
Lol
3:00 dont wanna tuch it because it is very dangerous
3:09 wipes it with hand
he has no clue what he is doing check the elemental maker channel , rulof basically copy pasted his hho torch and ruby videos
He has it under his fingernails too. Lmao
@@AG.Floats CALL 911
@@nick5625 Innovation requires sacrifices.
@@uristmcary that's what I was thinking.
When today started, I couldn't have known that it would end with me watching a guy who sounded like Borat make a ruby using sex toys...yet here we are
Just know one year later, someone ended up on that same video, and thought the exact same thing...
Same here 😂
@@RM771000 Yeahh... Totally normal. Nothing to see there
Seriously, this guy was like i need a ruby for my CNC machine, ill just make one...... -_- dude is my hero!
I learned this process about 35 years ago but never put it into practice, my loss! They actually make a special nozzle with a tapper and reservoir on top for the powder, and it goes down through the nozzle and melts as it falls, It's much cleaner, and it keeps all the powder from going everywhere, I was able to use a acetylene torch but all it would do is make a crust, I think I'm going to try it again because you have inspired me! Thanks for a great video I appreciate.
Ps. I subscribed!
You do?
BY FAR the best comment section I've ever had the privilege of reading. This is the best. Im crying so fing bad I can't stop laughing.
Same here,made my day😭
Oh my God, I don't know if I'm more terrified or amused, but I absolutely love this channel, this is the first video that I found, and I'm dying laughing both from the video and the comments LMAO
Technically speaking, this is ruby glass. It holds a lot of the properties of ruby, but the crystal structure is, well, not there because of how quickly it cools. In labs, the ruby is cooled, under pressure, very slowly to produce a crystal structure identical to naturally occurring. Takes about 8 months. Still, fused rubies, like this, are pretty cool.
I don't care what he's making, this man is brilliant! 🤣👍
This really is another dimension of DIY.
Dude... you lost a ruby within 5 mins of having it... that mmiigghhtt be a record... and btw why didn't you turn the grafite CUP right side up? Woulda kept it from blowing away on ya...but hey ur the scientist
He continually tells us of the danger of the green powder but he blows it around the room whilst having no gloves on the whole time. You'd also think he would have known what size hypodermic to attach to the syringe in advance but hey, third time lucky. Somehow, I won't be going into a lab. near him anytime in the future, I'll stick to buying my rubies instead and stay alive in the process.
Well, I'll take your word for it DRUNKEN DRUID - you seem to know which side is up with a *cup* - I like Kentucky bourbon myself!
@@RingJando I wouldn't mind a Kentucky Bourbon either!!
Impurities already in the graphite cup. A virgin graphite cup would have had to have been used to turn it right side up. There may not have been a virgin available...
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...especially with three sex toys around o_O
Goldsmith / Master Jeweler here: DIY, Certified Electrician, Photovoltaic Technician, Mechanic, Musician yes I learned all the instruments except harp, drums, guitar (that one hurts) You Sir sparked an interesting idea... for that I shall let you in on a little secret. put the mixture in the crucible and put it in a forge, a casting furnace that you can make on your own to prevent your powder being blown away. there is another way to do it just using the crucible no forge. that comes with 50 years experience. Thumbs Up. i Like, OLE!
Add a small amount of water to the powder and you can form it into a shape that will withstand the heating without blowing away.
It’s so weird watching a chemistry video by a non chemist.
Isn't it weird that people think others need validation. Especially when they accomplish a task without anyone's validation. Amazing!
@@dubv79 you ok man?
@@mostlyghostly6615I'm doing well. Thanks for asking.
@@dubv79 so true.totally agree with you.this is an awesome vid..
Non chemist lol okay
"Safety is number one priority" ithink we found the italian Taras Kul, CrazyItalianHacker
Lol
But he actually make interesting projects
@@tomg3285 he has no clue what he is doing check the elemental maker channel , rulof basically copy pasted his hho torch and ruby videos
@@nick5625 minus all the dick jokes
Ahahahha
I spat my tea out at the sex toy bit - I wasn't expecting that but quite genius.
As a chemical engineering student I feel like this process can be don at a much bigger scale to produce some table sized pieces on a production line.
Employ the use of a vibrator.
Would this also work if you put the powder mixture into a blast furnace?
Your a wizard my man .a full Alchemist, awesome video.
Very kewl! I'd suggest trying a flour sifter to move the green powder to a fire brick, or graphite, in larger, more even amounts.
Have you thought about using a larger amount of powder in a kiln? It would also allow for slower cooling, less or even no cracking!
Very kewl experiment! Love it & subscribed!
You might see if there's a jeweler that could faucet some of these for you! Try a gem & rock club, lapidary club or even a jewelry store that has a gemologist there. Adding a bit of titanium & iron to the mix can make sapphires. It would be great to find a mix that can give that really pretty blue!
TY for sharing!
You might want to melt some quartz infused with copper or gold... that can make a really pretty red swirl through an optically clear quartz stone, if done correctly. Beautiful stuff!
TY again for sharing! Subbed.
That is not how the flame deposition process works.
Us
Would this kind of ruby have the value as a natural ruby or is it like industrial diamonds not worth anything
It's certainly not as valuable as natural ruby, and these stones are absolutely teeming with imperfections just due to water in the mixure of the alumina alone, not to mention impurities in the tinfoil (Tinfoil is pretty impure! They alloy it to make it great for wrapping food, but not much else), and iron impurities in the HCl. These stones would be even less valuable than most manmade stones just because they are not very well made. It's more expensive to make these rubies with the components shown than to sell the rubies one would make. These are corrundum and could certainly be crushed into useful abrasive powders, but there really isn't much more use to them.
I love this guy. His English is actually very clear and I appreciate that very much. Thank you very much and I am very impressed.
What was the white brick made of? I couldn't understand properly...
fire brick. it doesn't matter, because it didn't work anyway
Cheese
Dude I love your videos. I don’t care what anyone says. Let’s see some other diyers make some rubies even if they aren’t mined ones. Excellent video as always.
I love your accent you sound like a crazy scientist
Had me on the edge of my seat the whole video! I couldn't tell if it was funny or real.. Still not quite sure.. Great Job!
I followed his instructions and my pinky finger is presently floating in Formaldehyde - lucky for me I don't play piano . . . well, not anymore that is.
Could you use a ceramic crucible to heat the powder all at once?
😂 that moment he broke out a cockring 😂
better than he would showed of his anal vibrator right? XD
gamer waymer 😂😂
Very interesting watch,but what was the point in using the syringe doohickey? I'll just rewatch.
"You can do this at home!"
*Proceeds to use acid, noxious chemicals, syringes and a sex toy*
This is great; thanks Russia! My kid is a shoe-in to win the science fair this weekend! This'll show my ex-wife who's an "unfit father;" might even net myself an unsupervised visitation!
He is brazilian, the ácido thing was written in Brazilian Portuguese
He is italian
@@gabrielmagnani9118 he's italian
Hahaha 😂 gahahaga 💝 ♥️
he is italian, the acid is written in italian and he said 'ciao ciao' when he finished the video.
Wouldn't it be easier to just buy aluminum oxide? It's pretty cheap. Also I'm confused why it needs to be vibrated out of a syringe when you can just scoop up how much you need.
Oh yeah! I can make rubies at home, let me first grab chromium oxide from my refrigerator.
When I searched this topic in TH-cam, I was secretly hoping this is what the answer would look like: a Futbol Cabbie who side hustles gemstones/lobsters from his van.
You are awesome! You are the king of cool! Thank you so much for sharing this!
I love that you scavenge the parts and improvise! I cant wait to check out more of your videos!
Awesome! Another person making ruby at home. Welcome to the team. Thanks for giving ElementMaker some credit in the description.
I still beat everyone in making ruby at home though. LOL. Dirty dirty hydrocarbon produced ruby...8 or 9 months ago.
Wouldn't it be simple to just get the aluminum oxide instead of making it ?
Could you combine multiple small rubies to form a bigger one?
"nasty powder"
*doesn't wear gloves, gets it on his hands*
I'm nothing short of amazed!
I really enjoyed your video, you just got yourself a new subscriber.
Well done!
What about putting the powdermix in a little bowl and heat it from below? maybe made of tungsten or something.
I was looking for rugby. . Not quite what I had in mind this evening, good video and interesting use of sex toys
This is like watching your crazy zio attempting a get rich scheme. SS tier content
2:57 who else thought, that he was showing some matcha?? :))
I have on subtitles and it said that we can build a machine that burns every type of man. That's good, I'm subscribing, can't wait to see more!
this is gonna be the guy that makes 2 electric whips to stop elon musk with his iron-man suit
although I like Rulof Maker, this guy you're mentioning is Colinfurze
That was cool! 😎 Will you make some to use in jewelry? I'd be interested to see the transformation from rough to faceted stone (or into a bead). Thanks for sharing! 🙂
From what I can see there is a significant amount of skill and training required to cut gemstones even with powered equipment.
Do they have actual value like regular Rubys?
WHO just casually brings a sex toy into a "DIY ruby" project as though it's just another common household device...for a man....to have just sitting around...
Correction: THREE OF THEM sitting around.
it took me half the video before the disbelief wore off of his words and i actually registered the implications of what was said.
He had three...
Those particular ones are specifically made for a man. Why wouldn't a man own them?
So, we need small vibration motors... Wait a minute, we have some sex toys laying around, where we can salvage motors from. :) Brilliant
Those cock rings looked well used up lmao
I have adverse reactions to hand sanitizer. This recipe boggles my mind! As much as I love rubies and would love to grow my own, I think I am content to live vicariously through you.
He's remarkably careless considering the chemicals and chemical reactions he is playing with.
Hydrochloric acid is not that dangerous. If it splashes on you just wash it off in a few seconds and nothing will happen. There's a video of a guy on here soaking his hand in it. People are hypersensitive safety Sally's about working with chemicals when common sense is the only safety equipment necessary 90% of the time. Goggles would probably be a good idea though.
@@Muonium1 The acid by itself is the least dangerous thing he's working with lmao. The gas from the foil+acid is hydrogen which is extremely flammable and hydrogen chloride which is poisonous. Chromium oxide is extremely toxic and a strong mutagen (and widely considered to be carcinogenic as well)
Nah. That's Hexavalent chromium. This is the trivalent oxide. It's highly insoluble and relatively inert. Don't breathe the dust and you will be fine.
@@Muonium1 he has no clue what he is doing check the elemental maker channel , rulof basically copy pasted his hho torch and ruby videos
It's the internet. who gives a shit. you can make a video on literally whatever you want. nobody owns these ideas, they are over a hundred years old.
Would your ruby be transparent when cut/polished?
i don't buy that you make aluminium oxide by yourself - it looks too white and too pure for your shabby technique
you used aluminium foil - such foils typically made from EN-AW 8011 or similar alloys - those are containing usually about 0,5 to 1 % Iron. Also this and similar types of allows contain < 1 % copper, silicon, magnesium for . The yellowish tint pretty sure comes from the ironchloride which gets formed as a byproduct.
so if you neutralize and filter that stuff you should get a yellow tinted powder aswell - it does not magically turn white
No one gives a fuck
It could just be the camera.
I'm fairly certain this is a troll video.
Oh for Fu... sake give the guy a break Harvard man!
Maybe it was coke
You could try the last part of that again only with the powder inside the carbon bowl on a stand with a high temp torch under it to see if you get anything larger.
Hold my beer,
*I'm gonna do science.*
Shopping list: some acid aluminium foil oh and 3 vibrators from sex shop
Are they valuable or just for show
working with skin-melting chemicals without gloves
using a freaking sęx toy in the process
This man is Insane, I love it
liked and subscribed.
What would the large one be worth? How much to get it cut?.... thanks, and very interesting video.
Use a lens from a rear projection t.v. and the Sun. Focus the Sun's rays through the lens onto something that can handle high heat. this method will not blow any material around.
It also won't get hot enough since the light color of the oxides reflects most of the heat away. You need over 2070 degrees Celsius to fuse the oxide feed material. However you need approximately 2200 degrees Celsius to be sufficient to fuse it into a legit single solid crystal. However, again, you need approximately 3000 Celsius at minimum to properly make flame fusion / Verneuil process rubies. The oxide feed material should be molten by the time it lands on the pedestal or platform and it is at this point the growing boule should be in contact with the 2200 degree Celsius portion of the flame. It needs to be molten and fluid enough to crystallize with the growing lattice below. This is done to eliminate the evolution of gasses as the oxides boil, as doing will solidify into a solid froth no better than iron thermite slag which is too corundum.
Matthew Wilson , what if he used a kiln to contain the heat (Except for the top where the magnified sun enters)? Would that allow the temp to rise enough?
@@TheRainHarvester I don't think it would only because of how quickly the heat rise and escape. The convection generated by the expanding hot air leaving the confines of the kiln would pull in the colder outside air into the chamber. Maybe there would be some possible scenario using some form of high temp quartz glass, or white sapphire glass so the sun rays could get inside, but I would imagine it still to be too impractical and expensive.
As a thought experiment, I would imagine going the extra mile and adding a purified layer of carbon on top of the ruby feedstock to initially absorb more heat, while also filling the chamber full of argon so that CO2 isn't instantly generated. We're only trying to see if fusing the chromium oxide doped alumina is at all possible under this approach, so quality is of no concern. We just want to see some red or pink coloration. The carbon can be burned off after the fusion attempt. The problem which I foresee would be the thermal conductivity of the kiln floor and the walls of the kiln.
The Fresnel lense from the projection TV would have to be used tracking the sun while directing the beam of focused light into the kiln chamber. I was going to attempt working out the math, but I have to leave as my ride is here at the office. Here is a link that you'll need to replace the spaces with dots. I'll work on it later myself just for the sake of learning something new.
A final note for now is that it may actually be possible, but many obstacles need to be overcome to achieve this feat. If you have the resources then I say go for it. I tend to overthink things too, so there's that as well. I may sound somewhat discouraging in the above paragraphs, but really, there is always something to learn and I encourage you or anyone else to explore such an experiment. I'll try to get back to this post in the near future to follow up.
Could Electric induction be used to create the heat?
@@Bob3519 From what I understand of electric induction heating it mostly works with iron based alloys. Sapphire contains a small amount of iron oxide, so who knows? Ruby can even have a small amount of iron oxide contamination but I don't know to the extent which still allows pigeon blood red, nor do I know how it might effect clarity. I do have ruby samples which I created using thermite as my heat source, and it certainly has tons of iron contamination. Hmmm. I don't think I ever posted a video on the resulting products from that second attempt.
If you put all of the powder inside the graphite crucible and cook it, will it make one big ruby?
First of all, these pink chunks are not rubby crystals but very fine chromium-doped alumina polycristalline melt. Making synthetic ruby crystals that large requires much more than dropping the raw material mixture on top of a refractory and melting it with a torch.
Second, chromium(III) oxide is not a highly toxic nor corrosive substance, and although touching it withought wearing gloves is not recommendable, it is much less dangerous than manipulating concentrated hydrochloric acid like that.
Definitely, this video makes chemistry appear like MasterChef, while it is not instructive at all as to crystal synthesis.
While I debate the first part because Ruby's are just dropped al2o3 and if the end result is roughly the same who's to notice. The rest makes sense.
Whilst I agree that this is just chromium-doped alumina poly-crystalline melt, it really does not take much more to convert it to a single crystal structure. It can be done solid-state even. One would simply have to make un-doped poly-crystalline alumina, putting both in a furnace and heating them to about 3/4 of the melting point of poly-crystalline alumina for a long enough period of time, depending on the size of your sample, you will get a single crystal formation out of the furnace.
@@johnsherfey3675 The end result is not the same. The material is opaque.
@@dangillick9247 Congratulations! You have just invented one more crystal growth method. They are so dumb to use Chochralski method...
@@radostin_pavlov A lot of natural ruby is opaque, or nearly so. Clear crystals are not common.
Hi, is ruby conductive for electricity?
What if we directly heat the powder without passing through syringe
no the sex toy syringe is what makes it a ruby, my dear.
Why is it necessary to use shaking motors if you put this thing next to fire? And if I have shaking hands can I make ruby as well? :D
7:34 "so I want to show you an original ruby I took away from a house."
Hahaha So you admitting to burglary on TH-cam or nah? LOL
in the original video he says "from my home"
Can we use microwave oven to heat these both oxides to be melted and make a bond?
Dude gloves!!!
Also jellied and strong are not great descriptors of the color white
Why you didn't flip that graphite cup so you'll get concave surface???
any one that has a shop that looks like mine can't be all bad... sorry elementalmaker.. try to think of it as helping to share the knowledge.. I for one never saw your vid.. But I will go and watch it now along with more of this fellows..
Very very cool! I’m going to make some thank you! Do you know the minimum temp needed? I have an oxyacetalyn torch. Also great shirt, I live near girona!
*_"[I don't know how I feel about this...]"_*
Bro how's homeworld
Just wanted to ask... is this typa ruby expensive?
lol this guy! casually makes ruby at home.
Created ruby is it the same in price or is ther differance in ruff raw to the real thang cus that looked real easy campared to growing them .
No, synthetic ruby and sapphire is actually extremely cheap at around $0.10 USD per carat for flawless rough material, compared to hundreds or even thousands of dollars per carat for high-quality natural ruby.
I love your efforts at sharing and you are very easy to watch and for the people saying safety you are informing them and its up to them some people take things to a level it should never go.
may i know if mixture is put in glass spoon and heated on propane stove
Or just watch the ElementalMaker
Wow this guy basically copied my video step-for-step. Crazy.
let's pour a few fingers of acid in the jar, sounds like a proper chemist ...
@@ElementalMaker and you basically copied AvE's format. so what
I do have a green cutting mat and make jokes, but aside from that I try to keep my content non-overlapping with AVE. No worries though its the circle jerk of internet life, we all copy ideas from each other.
We get it. You want credit. Get over it
a few questions: How many time you apply the torch to the powder un til see if works? Why only in small mounts dispersed and no use a small compresed nugget to make one? Ty and really great DiY :D
"dont touch this"
*all over table
*all over hands
What about grinding the Chromium powder down before trying to make a ruby.
This is amazing, you were able to replicate the work that Elemental maker did. This is excellent because that means I can do this also. But something different, you created aluminum oxide on your own, you didn't buy it. Fantastic.
You’re not only a gem bt gem maker of a person😂❤
3:23 in the italian version of the video he says: is a cat game 😂
"""""big cats toy"""""
This is my favourite video from all around youtube. So many paradoxes in one place and such a positive result in the same time.. just wonderful !!! All is in the comments below...i just cant stop laughing.. 😂🤣
I wonder why you're not just buy aluminum oxides rather than DIY cause it's more pure, same like you're chromium oxide
I have to say you taken knowledge from many sources and combine them into one with the creative ingenuity that the world needs to grasp onto with all its might and create a new future because so much information has been covered up in suppressed for way too long thank you for your wonderful creative mind and sharing what you know I don't care about the stupid people that criticize how you do things it's amazing to me to see A beautiful mind and you sharing it for all the world to see keep up all your good work together when people unite and learn from one another so many things are possible so many wonderful new creative ideas and things that will take our future to the next level
Please make philosophers stone next. Start with urine
Since the powder being blown away is an issue, could you perhaps use a refracted laser?
Borax can be used as flux to stop the powder from being blown away.
Why make crystal meth when you can make crystal rubies.
Hahah
do we need the vibration with the syringe?