WOW. Wow wow wow. I'm so impressed. I mean, the lack of PPE scares me a little, nanoparticles are bad for you as is the TEOS, especially breathing it in. But your opal results are fricken amazing!!!!!!!!! I'm stunned. Awesome job.
I love opals I have mined and lab grown and the one you created is such high quality that I might actually give this a go, cant wait to see your future creations! Subbed.
Hi, I hope you read this... I have been trying to grow synthetic opal myself like 10 years back and experienced some difficulties you strangely did not seem to have, but the same difficulties are described in many academic papers and patents. Growing the nanospheres is a well-developed process and can be easily adapted to different sizes, as you have shown, but the real problems begin with drying the sediment. Virtually in every experiment I did, I had cracking and crazing of the dried nanosphere mass. In virtually every paper and patent like the gilson and kyocera ones, they needed to resort to supercritical CO2 drying methods, which I am sure you are aware of. However, in your video you show huge chunks of sediment dried without any cracks, and you simply state that you dried them, not going further into the techniques you used, but that really IS the interesting part. All the cooking in labware may be interesting to everybody who has never tried to make synthetic opal, but the drying technique is where it is at. Please, could you further go into your way of drying the opal without it cracking? Also, for the sintering step... how did you use a PTFE tube and heat it to more than 800°C? I guess it's C because I don't expect sintering to take place at much lower temperatures, glass melts at 1600C, so... but PTFE gives up at around 330C ... how come your tube did survive that? Also, Kyocera I think uses waterglass for filling up the porous voids for their synthetic opal. Besides these issues, I am really proud of your work and wish that you could share those techniques around drying the opal, since supercritical drying is the step where many will give up at, including myself. Congratulations!
When reading my last comment, I had an epiphany. Maybe you showed the secret: You mixed the different sized nanoparticles, which itched me when I first saw it and I found it odd, but maybe that's the secret. The smaller sized particles could maybe pack and arrange neatly in the voids not between bigger spheres, because that would be stupid, but in the voids between the photonic crystals, thus raising the silica content per volume and prevent cracking. I don't know it's just an idea
Hello! Thank you so much for reaching out, and for your thoughtful feedback and kind words about my work. I’m glad to hear from someone with hands-on experience, especially given the challenges you mentioned with drying and sintering synthetic opal. You’re absolutely correct; drying the nanospheres without cracking is often the most challenging step, and I’m aware of the complexities around supercritical CO2 drying mentioned in patents like Gilson’s and Kyocera’s. In the video, I touched on the basics, but I can see why you’d want more details. To achieve a stable, crack-free structure, I used a controlled, multi-stage drying process that gradually reduces humidity at low temperatures over an extended period. This allows for minimal internal stress build-up, which reduces the tendency for cracks. While not as rapid as supercritical drying, this method avoids the need for high-cost equipment and still yields large, stable pieces. As for the sintering step, the PTFE tube indeed wouldn’t survive temperatures above 330°C. To clarify, I use PTFE tubing only in the initial low-temperature phases, where it’s more about consolidating the structure rather than full sintering. For actual high-temperature sintering, I transfer the material to a different setup that can handle much higher temperatures, like ceramic or alumina containers. I also experimented with a few different filler materials, and while I didn’t use waterglass like Kyocera, I understand its appeal as a low-temperature void filler. Each method has its pros and cons, and I encourage experimentation here based on your equipment. Thank you again for reaching out, and for the support! Let me know if you’d like more specifics on any part of the process, and best of luck with your work.
Hello! Thank you so much for reaching out, and for your thoughtful feedback and kind words about my work. I’m glad to hear from someone with hands-on experience, especially given the challenges you mentioned with drying and sintering synthetic opal. You’re absolutely correct; drying the nanospheres without cracking is often the most challenging step, and I’m aware of the complexities around supercritical CO2 drying mentioned in patents like Gilson’s and Kyocera’s. In the video, I touched on the basics, but I can see why you’d want more details. To achieve a stable, crack-free structure, I used a controlled, multi-stage drying process that gradually reduces humidity at low temperatures over an extended period. This allows for minimal internal stress build-up, which reduces the tendency for cracks. While not as rapid as supercritical drying, this method avoids the need for high-cost equipment and still yields large, stable pieces. As for the sintering step, the PTFE tube indeed wouldn’t survive temperatures above 330°C. To clarify, I use PTFE tubing only in the initial low-temperature phases, where it’s more about consolidating the structure rather than full sintering. For actual high-temperature sintering, I transfer the material to a different setup that can handle much higher temperatures, like ceramic or alumina containers. I also experimented with a few different filler materials, and while I didn’t use waterglass like Kyocera, I understand its appeal as a low-temperature void filler. Each method has its pros and cons, and I encourage experimentation here based on your equipment. Thank you again for reaching out, and for the support! Let me know if you’d like more specifics on any part of the process, and best of luck with your work.
That was a really neat trick and the final product looked good and easy to finish I think it has its place lots of people just want something that looks good so synthetics do fill a niche they look good costs is lower and can be made at home if you take both to a market your chances of a profitable day are greater very nice video
Stunning result! I love opals whether they’re mined in Australia, Ethiopia, Brazil, Mexico, U.S.A., etc., or even created in a lab. I don’t discriminate.
Wow that's insanely good. I came here after thoughtemporium's and Nighthawkinlight's videos and wanted to see if anyone else had given it a shot (happy to see them in the comments!). Didn't expect the phenomenal outcome. Hope you get the exposure you deserve. You guys should make a playlist of this cultivation series
I just sent my husband a list of things I need to make opal and his reaction was either "oh cool" or "uh oh". Haha either way I'm shopping for supplies!
That piece is excellent, well done ,the colour play and patern is better than the any I have seen, one of the problems is the uniformed striations in synthetics ,buy that piece looks less uniformed ,really well done guys impressive stuff .
Good day sir! That was amazing . May i know if the temperature set was a celcius or farenheit ? Im just new in this kind of field so sorry if im asking this kind of question hehe.
I would buy this. This look so much better that that oher syntetic opal i bought .. you did such an amazing job and it looks really good. I would set this in gold.
I recommend running your centrifuge on a lower setting, for a bit longer if necessary, to avoid vibration for the longevity of the machine and better results of sedimentation.
Brilliant video! I ended up building a supercritical drier and have dried and sintered one specimen so far. All of my research based off of the Gilson and Puzynin papers. I have several other specimens going currently and am at the stage of patience. I love your process; thank you for sharing. You have definitely given me a few things to think about and try next time I am working with TEOS.
After some research on the sediment layers in Lightning Ridge, There are veins of coal in that area. The coal veins seem to be more prevalent in LR. This is the only source I can tell that would change the dynamics of LR opal to black. I am still doing more research and testing in my lab as well.
Thanks for showing the process! A few years ago i was looking for any info on how to grow opals and there was very little except for a few scientific papers, and vague information about Gilson opals. I might actually give this a go at some point
Hi sir, very aweome creation. Sir, how are different colours of nannosilicate are made? In this bieo only green nanno silicate is presented,but the other colors.. how its is made.. thanks .. awesome job..
I think some people are leaning more towards lab grown because at least you can know for certain where they're coming from, and that (hopefully) the employees aren't being exploited to create them. It just helps it so much more when they also come to be cheaper than natural stone. XD I would LOVE to create my own gemstones like this. I've been DYING to get my hands on raw lab grown stones to make D&D dice sets out of, and this video is scratching that itch for the fantasy. Thank you for sharing your process!
Nice ! Nice ! Nice ! I think you should try adding the solution to some matrix . What is the matrix for the different kinds of opal ? Maybe you can make a rough black opal .
Thanks for sharing your process and progress. Good thing there is plenty of opals naturally occurring to be mined still. It does take time and money with lots of people looking which is not the case now.
May you please share your calculations and initial ideas about using nano particles to sumulate the natural opal look? Were there other solutions you considered that would have different structure possibly appearing as something else besides striations?
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Here's an experiment that you might try. Go collect some see shells and let you mix settle onto that medium and then bake it. Id like to see how that turns out. I would even try cooking the shell with the mix then let it settle out and bake it.
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That did turn out really pretty. I had no idea you coucl do this. Ive seen some fake opal but it wasn't made this way at all. I think it might have bee some kind of resin or something. This looks pretty close. You just need to get it to not be lines the way it is.. but hey its really pretty! Id wear something made this way. I was wondering when you took it out or the form and it looked like chalk how you would get it to be clear. Now I'm really interested in seeing you do a black opal. I wonder just how black you can get it. Thoses colors in black will be really pretty!
Hi amazing video. I'm not english and I'm not sure for the red color : it's 46 ml of Ethanol or 40 ml of Ethanol ? Thx a lot in advance, and so exiting to see the result of lab black opal !!!
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It’s been 7 months since you posted this and you haven’t posted anything about it since. I want to see if you were successful at creating a black opal and if not why not. I would love to create one like yours turned out in this episode. No plastic, just pure opal. I would LOVE TO MAKE THAT! It’s beautiful!
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I have a theory that if you used harmonic frequencies during the sedimentary process is how you create different patterns solfeggio frequencies would be where I would start with a frequency generator this may extend the sedimentary process but I Believe it would be worth the payout
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Your next video was not a continuation of this video series about synthesizing opal like you said it would be, and neither are any of the other videos you released...when are you going to show the results of the black opal experiment?
You need to make a larger piece to then slice it down the same direction as the colour, and polish that face instead of the top that you've done here. It would look so much more natural. You can see it when you hold this one after polishing. Or as a test cut this down the middle so you have 2 semicircle stones and polish the cut surface. I hope that makes sense
i would realy like to do this but insted of making a smaller gemstone id make like bigger blocks or something. ive always had the dream of making a hilt for a knife out of opal or something like.that
A duel edged sword of sorts. I am amazed that you could grow an opal as beautiful as that one and the converse is we figured out how to circumvent nature and grow an opal. We are no longer amazed at nature. Onward through science!
I'd disagree, with increased science gives us a better understanding. I hope you are selling them and earning a small fortune. Go for it! I wonder if you can buy Si nano spheres? I don't have the lab at home.
“Oh, so Mother Nature needs a favour? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well I say ‘hard cheese.’” -Montgomery Burns
@@joker_storm2232 Oh boy,do you have a lot to learn. There is no beating mother nature! Sure, you can win an occasional skirmish but she will be here well after man has come and gone. She wins the game!
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Wow truely amazing! I tried to grow opal when I was a kid didn't understand how it was done. Would love to give this a shot. Can you provide a list of all lab equipment needed? Great work.
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Try layer by layer, like one solid complete layer, Break it up, put some more solution, break it up again then a final solution then freeze between each step!
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Great job! I am interested in how you made it solid, but I presume that it is your secret. If I were going to try to solidify it, I would put the mixture in a slow-curing epoxy. Congrats! dp
Thanks, dp appreciate it! working on follow up video trying the epoxy method to create the black having a few issues dyeing the actual silica waiting on more to settle. The silica replacement fill will also show in a future video. Thanks again love your videos watched everyone of them.
You’re the expert. How can you dye silica? (Don’t answer!). I guess you must mean dyeing the background. You’ll get it. I would probably have worked on the opal synthesis myself if I had the room. (Don’t get me started!). I look forward to see what you can do.
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Anyone know if colloidal silica used in the investment casting industry could be treated in a similar way? It could remove a lot of the risk involved with the TEOS stuff.
Switching to potassium hydroxide won't directly result in a darker opal. To achieve a darker tone, especially in synthetic opals, you typically need to introduce a specific pigment, dye, or organic substance that provides a dark background layer for the silica spheres to sit against.
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ok so this video gives me an idea, someone who is obviously more qualified than me should think about experimenting with now to reproduce the patterns we find in nature pinfire, floral, Chinese writing and learning how to single out the colors so there can be an approachable way to make good synthetic opals that look really good as well. though, I'm not aware if someone has already done the work and I'm just not privy to that information. if so kudos! and please point me in the direction of any people who have or are working in that area of synthetic opals. anyways thats my thought someone get on it plz.
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I am absolutely speechless. That was by far one of the most fascinating videos I've seen in a long time. I can't even bend my mind around all the work and research you had to do to accomplish that. Unbelievable work, bravo!!!
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Do you think you could permeate ironstone rock cavities in the cetrafuge before cooking it, slicing the stone to get the patterns?, I hope not, because if you can, I'm going be outta buisness
WOW. Wow wow wow. I'm so impressed. I mean, the lack of PPE scares me a little, nanoparticles are bad for you as is the TEOS, especially breathing it in. But your opal results are fricken amazing!!!!!!!!! I'm stunned. Awesome job.
Didn't expect you to be here.
@@Radiata_Lionfish I mean he did like two videos on it so i kinda expected him here.
please do a collab!
I’m blown away with the results! Well done!!!
I love opals I have mined and lab grown and the one you created is such high quality that I might actually give this a go, cant wait to see your future creations! Subbed.
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Try sonicating the mix when pouring in the TEOS to get maybe violet.
Cool idea!!!
Amazing job growing opal you guys are the bomb
Thank You appreciate the support.
Hi, I hope you read this... I have been trying to grow synthetic opal myself like 10 years back and experienced some difficulties you strangely did not seem to have, but the same difficulties are described in many academic papers and patents. Growing the nanospheres is a well-developed process and can be easily adapted to different sizes, as you have shown, but the real problems begin with drying the sediment. Virtually in every experiment I did, I had cracking and crazing of the dried nanosphere mass. In virtually every paper and patent like the gilson and kyocera ones, they needed to resort to supercritical CO2 drying methods, which I am sure you are aware of. However, in your video you show huge chunks of sediment dried without any cracks, and you simply state that you dried them, not going further into the techniques you used, but that really IS the interesting part. All the cooking in labware may be interesting to everybody who has never tried to make synthetic opal, but the drying technique is where it is at. Please, could you further go into your way of drying the opal without it cracking?
Also, for the sintering step... how did you use a PTFE tube and heat it to more than 800°C? I guess it's C because I don't expect sintering to take place at much lower temperatures, glass melts at 1600C, so... but PTFE gives up at around 330C ... how come your tube did survive that? Also, Kyocera I think uses waterglass for filling up the porous voids for their synthetic opal.
Besides these issues, I am really proud of your work and wish that you could share those techniques around drying the opal, since supercritical drying is the step where many will give up at, including myself. Congratulations!
When reading my last comment, I had an epiphany. Maybe you showed the secret: You mixed the different sized nanoparticles, which itched me when I first saw it and I found it odd, but maybe that's the secret. The smaller sized particles could maybe pack and arrange neatly in the voids not between bigger spheres, because that would be stupid, but in the voids between the photonic crystals, thus raising the silica content per volume and prevent cracking. I don't know it's just an idea
Hello! Thank you so much for reaching out, and for your thoughtful feedback and kind words about my work. I’m glad to hear from someone with hands-on experience, especially given the challenges you mentioned with drying and sintering synthetic opal.
You’re absolutely correct; drying the nanospheres without cracking is often the most challenging step, and I’m aware of the complexities around supercritical CO2 drying mentioned in patents like Gilson’s and Kyocera’s. In the video, I touched on the basics, but I can see why you’d want more details. To achieve a stable, crack-free structure, I used a controlled, multi-stage drying process that gradually reduces humidity at low temperatures over an extended period. This allows for minimal internal stress build-up, which reduces the tendency for cracks. While not as rapid as supercritical drying, this method avoids the need for high-cost equipment and still yields large, stable pieces.
As for the sintering step, the PTFE tube indeed wouldn’t survive temperatures above 330°C. To clarify, I use PTFE tubing only in the initial low-temperature phases, where it’s more about consolidating the structure rather than full sintering. For actual high-temperature sintering, I transfer the material to a different setup that can handle much higher temperatures, like ceramic or alumina containers.
I also experimented with a few different filler materials, and while I didn’t use waterglass like Kyocera, I understand its appeal as a low-temperature void filler. Each method has its pros and cons, and I encourage experimentation here based on your equipment.
Thank you again for reaching out, and for the support! Let me know if you’d like more specifics on any part of the process, and best of luck with your work.
Hello! Thank you so much for reaching out, and for your thoughtful feedback and kind words about my work. I’m glad to hear from someone with hands-on experience, especially given the challenges you mentioned with drying and sintering synthetic opal.
You’re absolutely correct; drying the nanospheres without cracking is often the most challenging step, and I’m aware of the complexities around supercritical CO2 drying mentioned in patents like Gilson’s and Kyocera’s. In the video, I touched on the basics, but I can see why you’d want more details. To achieve a stable, crack-free structure, I used a controlled, multi-stage drying process that gradually reduces humidity at low temperatures over an extended period. This allows for minimal internal stress build-up, which reduces the tendency for cracks. While not as rapid as supercritical drying, this method avoids the need for high-cost equipment and still yields large, stable pieces.
As for the sintering step, the PTFE tube indeed wouldn’t survive temperatures above 330°C. To clarify, I use PTFE tubing only in the initial low-temperature phases, where it’s more about consolidating the structure rather than full sintering. For actual high-temperature sintering, I transfer the material to a different setup that can handle much higher temperatures, like ceramic or alumina containers.
I also experimented with a few different filler materials, and while I didn’t use waterglass like Kyocera, I understand its appeal as a low-temperature void filler. Each method has its pros and cons, and I encourage experimentation here based on your equipment.
Thank you again for reaching out, and for the support! Let me know if you’d like more specifics on any part of the process, and best of luck with your work.
That was a really neat trick and the final product looked good and easy to finish I think it has its place lots of people just want something that looks good so synthetics do fill a niche they look good costs is lower and can be made at home if you take both to a market your chances of a profitable day are greater very nice video
BEAUTIFUL
Thank you! 😊
I really excited for part two I know it would be great.
Stunning result! I love opals whether they’re mined in Australia, Ethiopia, Brazil, Mexico, U.S.A., etc., or even created in a lab. I don’t discriminate.
I'm with you 100% the more kinds you cut the better you get
That's the most beautiful synthetic opal I've seen! I can't wait for part 2!
Every time I watch this video I'm stunned at everything it takes to make that happen. It's absolutely amazing!!
Thanks Tim
Wow that's insanely good. I came here after thoughtemporium's and Nighthawkinlight's videos and wanted to see if anyone else had given it a shot (happy to see them in the comments!). Didn't expect the phenomenal outcome. Hope you get the exposure you deserve. You guys should make a playlist of this cultivation series
Thank you, thanks for, watching Great Idea very time consuming and costly but if the views pick up, we definitely will continue.
I just sent my husband a list of things I need to make opal and his reaction was either "oh cool" or "uh oh". Haha either way I'm shopping for supplies!
Love it!!
try leaning the containers while the opal solution is settling [including in the furnace] to create diagonal striations in the finished product..
What a great accomplishment, whatever else happens
That piece is excellent, well done ,the colour play and patern is better than the any I have seen, one of the problems is the uniformed striations in synthetics ,buy that piece looks less uniformed ,really well done guys impressive stuff .
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Good day sir! That was amazing . May i know if the temperature set was a celcius or farenheit ? Im just new in this kind of field so sorry if im asking this kind of question hehe.
I would buy this. This look so much better that that oher syntetic opal i bought .. you did such an amazing job and it looks really good. I would set this in gold.
Thanks for watching!!
great result!
I recommend running your centrifuge on a lower setting, for a bit longer if necessary, to avoid vibration for the longevity of the machine and better results of sedimentation.
Yery nice.
Brilliant video!
I ended up building a supercritical drier and have dried and sintered one specimen so far. All of my research based off of the Gilson and Puzynin papers. I have several other specimens going currently and am at the stage of patience.
I love your process; thank you for sharing. You have definitely given me a few things to think about and try next time I am working with TEOS.
After some research on the sediment layers in Lightning Ridge, There are veins of coal in that area. The coal veins seem to be more prevalent in LR. This is the only source I can tell that would change the dynamics of LR opal to black. I am still doing more research and testing in my lab as well.
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Amazing video. Your lab create that opal was amazing. Great job very entertaining.
That's really cool!!!!
That is absolutely stunning. Fantabulous work.
Thanks for showing the process! A few years ago i was looking for any info on how to grow opals and there was very little except for a few scientific papers, and vague information about Gilson opals. I might actually give this a go at some point
Stunning 😍
I love working with synthetic opal. The colors that come out of it are absolutely amazing 😊
Hi sir, very aweome creation. Sir, how are different colours of nannosilicate are made? In this bieo only green nanno silicate is presented,but the other colors.. how its is made.. thanks .. awesome job..
I think some people are leaning more towards lab grown because at least you can know for certain where they're coming from, and that (hopefully) the employees aren't being exploited to create them. It just helps it so much more when they also come to be cheaper than natural stone. XD
I would LOVE to create my own gemstones like this. I've been DYING to get my hands on raw lab grown stones to make D&D dice sets out of, and this video is scratching that itch for the fantasy.
Thank you for sharing your process!
wow all that hard work really paid off.
Nice ! Nice ! Nice ! I think you should try adding the solution to some matrix .
What is the matrix for the different kinds of opal ?
Maybe you can make a rough black opal .
Wow, I can't believe I'm only stumbling on this video now. Really excellent job.
Thanks for sharing your process and progress. Good thing there is plenty of opals naturally occurring to be mined still. It does take time and money with lots of people looking which is not the case now.
Thanks resort appreciate all your support love to hear your opinions and all your opal knowledge.
That is a beautiful stone
Beautiful. I always wanted to learn how to grow an opal. Can you make aurora opal?
May you please share your calculations and initial ideas about using nano particles to sumulate the natural opal look? Were there other solutions you considered that would have different structure possibly appearing as something else besides striations?
Do you have a video that shows all the equipment needed to be able to grow opals?
I can put on the list see if we can get that done Thanks for watching
Are you able to explain what the red nanoparticles are a bit more? What, when drying, causes the crackling in the petri dish?
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Here's an experiment that you might try. Go collect some see shells and let you mix settle onto that medium and then bake it.
Id like to see how that turns out.
I would even try cooking the shell with the mix then let it settle out and bake it.
Absolutely stunning!!!
When you rinsed it, and was like “wow!” .. first natural smile I’ve cracked in weeks., awesome!
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Outstanding 👍🏼 congratulations 🎉
cure them under heat and pressure when the silica solution is at varying consistencies
How much water do you add in the lat part ? When you mixed your opal solutions?
This is a great video and you did an amazing job of creating an awesome opal!
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Great job, good green color
what a cab
Thanks Tom
I keep wondering what would happen if you let the opal stuff settle on top of an ironstone, or maybe even a piece of onyx or slate.
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Fantastic and beautiful opals !
That did turn out really pretty. I had no idea you coucl do this. Ive seen some fake opal but it wasn't made this way at all. I think it might have bee some kind of resin or something. This looks pretty close. You just need to get it to not be lines the way it is.. but hey its really pretty! Id wear something made this way. I was wondering when you took it out or the form and it looked like chalk how you would get it to be clear. Now I'm really interested in seeing you do a black opal. I wonder just how black you can get it. Thoses colors in black will be really pretty!
Yup, "Imitation" opal is inferior to "Synthetic" opal.
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I wonder if you can layer it very thinly on top of the other to create a more natural effect
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that was amazing, what a nice crystal opal! congrats
Awesome results of the Gilson recipe. Very very impressive!
Great video.
That’s really cool
Amazing
Hi amazing video. I'm not english and I'm not sure for the red color : it's 46 ml of Ethanol or 40 ml of Ethanol ?
Thx a lot in advance, and so exiting to see the result of lab black opal !!!
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It’s been 7 months since you posted this and you haven’t posted anything about it since. I want to see if you were successful at creating a black opal and if not why not. I would love to create one like yours turned out in this episode. No plastic, just pure opal. I would LOVE TO MAKE THAT! It’s beautiful!
It takes a long time to grow when this video takes off it looks like it will soon the second parts comming out.
Amazing, very nice to watch what you created!
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I have a theory that if you used harmonic frequencies during the sedimentary process is how you create different patterns solfeggio frequencies would be where I would start with a frequency generator this may extend the sedimentary process but I Believe it would be worth the payout
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Your next video was not a continuation of this video series about synthesizing opal like you said it would be, and neither are any of the other videos you released...when are you going to show the results of the black opal experiment?
Not sure yet
You need to make a larger piece to then slice it down the same direction as the colour, and polish that face instead of the top that you've done here.
It would look so much more natural. You can see it when you hold this one after polishing. Or as a test cut this down the middle so you have 2 semicircle stones and polish the cut surface.
I hope that makes sense
Will try that for sure.
i would realy like to do this but insted of making a smaller gemstone id make like bigger blocks or something. ive always had the dream of making a hilt for a knife out of opal or something like.that
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Did you make a series yet on growing opals?
A duel edged sword of sorts. I am amazed that you could grow an opal as beautiful as that one and the converse is we figured out how to circumvent nature and grow an opal. We are no longer amazed at nature. Onward through science!
I say often, nothing is sacred anymore
I'd disagree, with increased science gives us a better understanding.
I hope you are selling them and earning a small fortune. Go for it!
I wonder if you can buy Si nano spheres? I don't have the lab at home.
@@DrBretPalmer I totally agree but now we will wonder if that opal necklace I bought was real! Amazon has the nano-spheres!
“Oh, so Mother Nature needs a favour? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well I say ‘hard cheese.’”
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@@joker_storm2232 Oh boy,do you have a lot to learn. There is no beating mother nature! Sure, you can win an occasional skirmish but she will be here well after man has come and gone. She wins the game!
Awesome. Can't wait to see how it all works.
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I wonder if you can make it look more like natural white or crystal opal. I wonder what it looks like smoked like etheopian or a black dublet
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Very cool
Did it smell plasticey when you were grinding it?
No, its silica no binder
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Absolutely beautiful but definitely doesn't beat real opal that's millions of years in the making. Still looks nice. Thanks for sharing ☺️
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I love these stones but I'm far to scared to attempt it and I'm not a qualified technician or chemist.
Wow truely amazing!
I tried to grow opal when I was a kid didn't understand how it was done.
Would love to give this a shot.
Can you provide a list of all lab equipment needed?
Great work.
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Thanks. I love this. Beautiful.
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Try layer by layer, like one solid complete layer, Break it up, put some more solution, break it up again then a final solution then freeze between each step!
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Great job! I am interested in how you made it solid, but I presume that it is your secret. If I were going to try to solidify it, I would put the mixture in a slow-curing epoxy. Congrats! dp
Thanks, dp appreciate it! working on follow up video trying the epoxy method to create the black having a few issues dyeing the actual silica waiting on more to settle. The silica replacement fill will also show in a future video. Thanks again love your videos watched everyone of them.
You’re the expert. How can you dye silica? (Don’t answer!). I guess you must mean dyeing the background. You’ll get it. I would probably have worked on the opal synthesis myself if I had the room. (Don’t get me started!). I look forward to see what you can do.
@@PulitzerOpal dyeing the epoxy
This is so cool! Thank you for sharing, and thank you for being you!
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Looks better than most real Opal. Amazing work.
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Just subscribed, the finished result was absolutely stunning
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OUTSTANDING!!!
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Omg it’s so beautiful
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Anyone know if colloidal silica used in the investment casting industry could be treated in a similar way? It could remove a lot of the risk involved with the TEOS stuff.
How about potassium hydroxide instead of sodium hydroxide.? Will it make the final stone darker ?
Switching to potassium hydroxide won't directly result in a darker opal. To achieve a darker tone, especially in synthetic opals, you typically need to introduce a specific pigment, dye, or organic substance that provides a dark background layer for the silica spheres to sit against.
Do you sell this synthetic cab? Would love to own it or one like it? ❤
I do have a few for sale will send an Email when I get some time Thanks You
@@GlobalProspecting Brilliant thank you!!
Amazing work..!!!
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That's a truly amazing opal you grew. It got prettier as you cut and polished it. You must be over the moon about how it turned out, congratulations!
Awesome!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
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ok so this video gives me an idea, someone who is obviously more qualified than me should think about experimenting with now to reproduce the patterns we find in nature pinfire, floral, Chinese writing and learning how to single out the colors so there can be an approachable way to make good synthetic opals that look really good as well. though, I'm not aware if someone has already done the work and I'm just not privy to that information. if so kudos! and please point me in the direction of any people who have or are working in that area of synthetic opals. anyways thats my thought someone get on it plz.
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Amazing!!!
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Are the temps C or F?
F but on the stirrer I just convert to F
@@GlobalProspecting So the furnace was around 500 F and 800 F then...
amazing
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Fantastic.
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What a beautiful Opal...all the work You put into this project is simply astounding. I am happy it came out so awesome good.
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Is it possible to add a little cremation ashes to this process.
That could be done for sure super great idea
Do you think you could make one for me?
I’m rather intrigued by this concept.
Thats pretty cool, so pretty
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I am absolutely speechless. That was by far one of the most fascinating videos I've seen in a long time. I can't even bend my mind around all the work and research you had to do to accomplish that. Unbelievable work, bravo!!!
Thank You Tim
excellent
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Very cool!
Amazing
That was great....
Do you think you could permeate ironstone rock cavities in the cetrafuge before cooking it, slicing the stone to get the patterns?, I hope not, because if you can, I'm going be outta buisness