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A few years ago I stumbled onto something called purple gold and I really wanted to buy a pure purple gold ring. However, I was devastated when I found out that it didn't exist...so I decided to try and make one myself.
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I love how the chemistry in this video isn’t complicated, it’s just Nile learning that casting metal is complex.
I'm totally down for this arc for Nile. Sometimes he doesn't need insane chemical recipes to make something exciting.
Turns out that materials science is pretty different from chemistry and just as complicated. There's a lot more to making a high performance alloy than just the right mix of elemental metals.
@@iankrasnow5383 but material science is partly chemistry. Especially when this is about alloys.
This video features a lot of manufacturing and material science, two things I did in mechanical engineering. I did very little chemistry in it
@@SURok695 Mainly engineering though
"Im not usually into jewellery"
*Nile casually making himself grillz a few months ago*
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He's right tho. He's unusually into jewelry.
@@kphaxx Exactly
He’s right tho
In the grillz video, he mentioned that grillz was really the only jewellery he liked.
I showed this video to my godfather who owns a large jewelry company and he told me he had tried to make this about 5 years ago and this was some of the finest work he had ever seen
My farts are better than NileRed’s farts.
you have autism@@p-__
That's interesting to hear! Do you think he would try again in the future?
@@p-__congrats? 🤨
Will he make it
You're the person that 14th century alchemists dreamed of being.
*suluxy* Literally the happiest place we girls are
The beaker drop had me in shambles until I realized it was just a bamboozle
Oh no....
same lmfaoo
My heart sank when I saw that then I swore at Nile
I about had a heart attack lmao
I literally yelled out loud in anger, frustration, and sadness. But then I realized that it had to be a prank, and I am very glad that it was.
Fun fact: in the semi-conductor industry, this alloy is known as “purple plague” because it’s extremely detrimental to parts. Basically, if gold and aluminum contacts touch at high temp, some purple alloy naturally forms. This alloy is both brittle and a poor conductor, leading to electrical or mechanical failure. It was a big issue for a while, and Al and Au are some of the most common contact materials in chips. So yeah, fun facts for ya.
Edit: Wow, this blew up, haha. Glad to start some cool conversations and learning!
Very interesting thanks for sharing
one man's plague alloy is another man's shiny finger trinket
Grats, I give you 100 likes, on this, Christmas Eve.
My gold is better than NileRed’s gold
Glad someone else called it out. It's super obscure unless you're in the right industry, and then you hate it lol
One month on, Singaporean here and I just happened to stopped by Lee Hwa for some jewllery shopping. Asked the staff about purple gold and would you know it, the staff informed that this video was shared all over the company internally. Staff shared that Lee Hwa actually experienced a spike in international sales right after this video dropped, so they have Nile to thank for!
Betting on new jewelry companies to start rising up and making more polished purple gold than what's currently available. The competition begins...
You are correct. Lee Hwa's website have gone from an average of 20k viewers a month to a bit above 290k.
Thanks to Nile they most likely gonna have their best year.
THATS WILD
WHERE'S HIS CHEQUE???
This is so amazing ❤❤❤
Yeah, another future sale here
My father, Mr Loh Peng Chum made 19k purple gold. You can see how he created them here: th-cam.com/video/bhdk2gjop30/w-d-xo.htmlsi=qSs2mha9BpQOJp2H
He loved the video lol, he found the struggles that you faced very relatable.
Hey, i'm rewatching the video and noticed something important: he's the author of the patent Nile based his proceedings! So fun he got to watch this video!
So your father was the patent holder from Singapore Polytechnic in the video?
@@SimplyApollo yes, he is! He taught there before, are you one of his students?
@@Absent_keebs no... just found it interesting that your dad wrote the patent that helped make this video.
hey, i know the video featuring your father was 12 years old but i hope you all are doing well..
I'm a jewellery maker, and I just watched this whole video utterly fascinated. The chemistry, the complexity of casting metal, and the artistry, all combined into an absolute thriller. When I studied jewellery making, I never got to cast gold for budget reasons, and I only know in theory how gold can be dissolved in aqua regia, and I'm just mindblown right now.
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Having studied jewelry making I kept wondering if he knew what a centrifugal caster is. That might have eliminated the last of the bubbles and cast the purple gold into the final form all in one.
@@CalophonMechanoChemistry?
this must be so satisfying for someone in the know lmao
Whats crazy is you've advanced a field. no one makes cast purple gold jewelry because of the complications. You are now one of the best in the world at that specific task and made it look like a college students term project.
To be fair bro has a 6 figure laboratory
@@Devblivion 🤣 You're not wrong
Purple gold is ugly but...
He's a chemist doing material science lol
@@Devblivion That certainly helps in figuring out the correct process. But the actual gear you really need doesn't seem that expensive.
I mean, you need the beaker and the acids to pulverize your gold (and that seems to be optional, you can use other methodes) - you need some way to melt the gold, the argon-setup and a way to get your molds.
I think some mid 4 figures of gear and material (excluding the gold) to start you off.
Nile: "I have no idea where all the gold went!"
Also Nile: *sanding, grinding, hammering*
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It's hilarious watching how Nile's knowledge base is kinda a mile deep, and an inch wide :D
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He said in the video that he collected all the dust and dissolved it with the rest.
Smashing some chunks through the lab 😂
I was hooked the entire video. The way I gasped when the fake beaker broke all over the floor! Love the dry humor and the walk through!
Remember that aluminum immediately passivates into aluminum oxide, so all bulk "aluminum" contains surface layer of aluminum oxide. You need to use chemistry magic to add PURE aluminum to the liquid gold with no surface layer. Perhaps suspended in a liquid. Add the liquid to the crucible with bubbling argon and slowly warm up the crucible evaporating the suspended liquid. Now you have pure aluminum you can add gold to.
You're also sanding / polishing with aluminum oxide. This is why it remained silver.
Do this: mix pure aluminum with no aluminum oxide, pure Gold. Bubble some argon. Pour into a mold, and put DIRECTLY into a furnace and do not let it cool below 600C. Let it sit at 600C for 24 hours, and cool down to room temperature over the following 24 hours. Then polish with stainless steel, stone, or some non aluminum compound.
I am going to do my own work with my goldsmith friend but you have much more resources.
Finally, you say you don't knowing where the gold went... But you were sanding for 10 hours (!) multiple times (!) and you ONLY lost 5 grams?
Burn the sandpaper! Burn it, I say! (I suspect it's in the crevices)
I had exactly the same thought @Wireball
The sandpaper had increased his value with those gold between de crevices 😂
@@Wireballthis was my guess too. Fun fact: gold purifying plants burn disposable bodysuits and air filters for extra gold recovery
It can hide in places you might not expect
@@Wireball Even just completely washing it might have recovered some of those lost 5 g. :p
Even if the paper doesn't require it, using water while sanding metals makes it easier to recover them because they'll be a slurry instead of dust that can get anywhere by just blowing in the general direction...
Man really just spent $8000 on gold, bought a CNC machine, and spent days purifying and re-smelting metal just to make a ring he doesn't think he will wear all that often. Legendary.
It's about learning something, not having the thing you learned to make. I have a shop full of them too! Lol
But look, it's purple!
that's how sciene works
Anything for the content 😂
tbf the $8000 he spend will be still worth $8000 if he ever wants to sell it again
2:06 “But for some reason, I really felt that I can do it”
*50 minutes remaining*
Nile, you’ve done it again
I felt this in my adhd
This guy could get any freakin job he wanted and he's a chemist on TH-cam
Wth I didn't even know that I just finished a 50min video until I read this comment...
13:53 To understand what is : “Raising the composition of gold pushing it into the gamma-phase gold aluminum structure” refer to a Au-Al phase diagram. It will have the composition of each component on the x axis and Temperature on the y axis. There will be different phases shown at each composition& temp and you can identify which phase you have with the alloy you created. This is coming from a materials engineer! Love the video super interesting to me
I just spent a quarter of the past semester learning about phase diagrams in materials science. This is super cool.
7:48 You gave me a freaking heart attack and I love you for it...
Yo, I listened to a bunch of your music back in the FiM days. Cool to see you around.
“oh no”
- NileRed 2023
My jaw literally dropped
Oh hey didn't think I would see you here
I *knew* it was fake and it *still* made me squeal and gave me a jolt of adrenaline.
It's absolutely fascinating that you ALWAYS include processes that went wrong or produced unexpected results. It makes me appreciate the hard work, time, and patience that you put into all of your projects even more.
I appreciate that he shows this because as anyone who’s taken a chem course can attest to, experiments never go how they’re planned so it’s nice to see that that’s not just a problem at the student level
Honestly that's by far the best part of his videos, the problem solving. If it was just a step by step on how to do chemistry it would be like reading a recipe, it isn't exciting. But finding roadblocks and manouvering around them with relatively limited equipment is a testament to ingenuity, creativity, and the indomitable will of human beings.
The failures are sometimes the funniest parts. It was fun seeing him make the cherry soda from the paint thinner, but it would not have been the same experience without including the mistake where he accidentally tear gassed himself.
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@@p-__me too💭😫
i am a jeweler and goldsmith apprentice and seeing you drop the beaker "full of gold" game me heart palpitations and i almost started crying in Italian
yeah i seen that and was like "oh my god WHAT?"
MAMAMIA THE GOLD
@@pohkuangda6662I literally cackled when I read this
😂😂😂
Before he dropped the beaker I was thinking "Wow it would really suck if you dropped that..."
Casual 8k CAD beaker
I physically celebrated and clapped my hands whenever i see it successfully turn into what he wanted
Genuinely so happy for this guy and i fully respect his patience no matter how dreadful the situation was ! I highly salute that
The part with the Aqua Regia is exactly how George de Hevesy hid 2 Nobel Prize medals during WWII. To the soldiers who looked around his lab for valuable things, it just looked like a beaker of orange chemicals. After the war, he precipitated the gold back out and the Nobel Committee recast the medals from that gold.
Dude, that is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
didn't know this story. so cool
I knew that story from wayyyyy back in chemistry lab when we were playing with strong mineral acids.
Science wins again! Love it.
This is an amazing story. I think this would have been cool to hear in the video.
Love way you introduce the metals. Like, “here is my 5000 dollar bar of 24k gold, i considered smashing it, here’s me throwing it on the ground. Im going to disolve it now..” and then “i bought this aluminum off ebay, here is me showcasing it on the table, im not going to do anything to it it’s staying like this.”
I enjoyed that too. Also, good to see I'm not the only one it pushed this video to this week.
Right before he redissolved it again for the first time I thought "Wow he spent 5 grand and now it all looks like a bunch of grey junk". For some reason the thought didn't occur to me that you could just put it back in the aqua regia.
Can we just appreciate the fact that this guy took an arcane process only known to a few specialists and made an entire YT step-by-step that everyone can now see.
Congratulations, man!
Lee Hwa's not going to be happy 😂
"Purple gold is super difficult to work with" meanwhile he's making a whole ring of this stuff.
@@SkyEcho751lee hwa probably trying to scare away the competition
@@yanuk818They’re gonna be very exited. Millions of people now know that purple gold jewelry exists.
Lee Hwa Jewellery may be putting a hit out on him.
"cool ring dude,how did u get it?"
"pain and suffering for a couple months"
I'm from Singapore and i grew up seeing Lee Hwa's purple gold ads and shop displays. I didnt know the purple gold was legitimate gold! My husband also thought there was a coating of purple substance, not actual gold. This is so interesting. Good job Nile on replicating it so perfectly.
I would have just used 24k casting grain like most sane jewelers would do.
Purple Gold was found and patented by a Professor in Singapore. Then Lee Hwa Jewellery brought the formula rights, and then make it Gold Heart’s exclusive. I used to work with Lee Hwa Jewellery, therefore, it’s part of the training.
spraying the gold purple and lacquering it would be a damn sight easier.
I was in Singapore back in 07 for some courses through the company I was working for. I remembered walking past some jewellry stores and they had purple gold jewellry for sale. As I had previously worked in a gold refinerary doing the Aqua Regia making 99.999% or Five Nines (sometimes higher) I was curious as to the process of making the purple gold. The sales team couldn't tell me the exact process but there had been a patent taken out on it.
well it's not actual gold, it an ally of about 80% gold and aluminium. Like the other gold ally with silver, or copper, that the jewelers sell as "gold".
Aluminum die caster here. We have graphite tubes with hundreds of little holes in them. Think like a fish tank bubbler rock. The sole purpose is to degass our molten aluminum with argon! It was fun to watch you figure this out on your own. It took the casting industry about 50 years to do it!!!
Edit: we also put negative draft on all of our molds. I think you now know why!!! We have very expensive mold design and testing software that I would be happy to use to help you if you want to make another mold. Just let me know!
I hope he sees this and tries this once more.
Agreed
Uninterested in getting some of those tubes.
I wonder if the tubes are like fritted glass which makes mucho bubbles
its pretty cool to see two different sources, both professional and personal "hobby" project arrive at the same solution for a problem like this.
I used to work for a company that produces industrial compressors and vacuums like the ones installed in hospitals for their pneumatic equipment (think the tube a dentists uses to pull excess water and saliva from your mouth while they do cleanings an such.) we always installed "brass sponge" mufflers on our units for all of the exhaust and drain pipes. The brass sponge fittings also have tons of holes but I guess wouldn't work under such high heats. However I have seen them used alternatively as percolators for fume filters an such
This is legitimately some stuff that may have never been recorded on camera let alone documented in this way. Fantastic work, NileRed. You should be very proud of this one.
May even help future companies that want to try and make this stuff. This video was very impressive.
I never knew elixir was real irl
He's the local chem wizard of YT. This is what youtube was made for. 💙
From now on jeweleries from all over the world trying to make purple gold will look at this video the same way we look at those extremely detailed answers from 2007 forums for ridiculously niche questions
My mom is a baby
tbh, your conviction and drive is pretty inspiring. Def not the feels I was expecting when I started the vid
This has to be one of the most well deserved patents. Not only figuring out how to make purple gold but refining the process so it can be strong and once it’s set into a shape then annealed into the crystal structure that gives it the purple colour. It must be near impossible to rediscover this without a deep, deep understanding of metallurgy.
Plus: Stuff disclosed actually works as described. Not all heroes wear capes, some sell jewelry.
He probably payed a lot of money for the patent
Metallurgy is freaking magic. I have an insane amount of respect for the researchers, engineers, and artisans that have put in the time and effort to understanding it. Every time I look at a phase diagram, I am reminded that there are some real geniuses out there.
Imagine making this stuff 1000 or so years ago. You'd be some kind of wizard/witch!
@@CrimsonA1 given the technology back then and the challenges involved I'd agree with the town folks ;)
Dude this is huge. You just provided a production process to small independent jewelers all over the internet for a really cool thing that the greater jewelry industry has dismissed as unprofitable. I have several ideas for how to improve your processes, based on my own past jewelsmithing experience as a hobby, and once I get my garage workshop set up, I can definitely see myself making some purple gold jewelry. Big thanks for sharing the info!
I hope you realize I'm subscribing to your channel and waiting patiently for you to join some of the few souls who've been willing to try their hands at AgAl alloy jewelry-ing! Here's wishing you good luck and god's speed on getting that garage workshop set up! I believe in you!
Good luck. Would love to see results
Rad. Artisans at work. Best of luck.
Except for one thing; the patent. It’s one thing to make small samples for personal use (like NileRed did here), but if you try to use this and sell the results, you’re going to have a lawsuit on your hands, or at least angry lawyers showing up with cease-and-desist orders. 😢
Tell us what you figure out. I'm not a jewelsmith but I love seeing people talk about things they love
I feel like this man single-handedly expanded the purple gold community from almost nothing to something in the eyes of the people
frrr
A hundred percent
Smart marketing 👀😅
He just filled the entire Wikipedia page single handedly,
The patent US6929776B1 looks to have expired in 2020. Maybe there will be more purple gold jewelry coming around using this method.
Ngl the pink version looks good
I love the premise of Nile coming into the jeweler space with his chemist perspective and finding a more convenient way to work with a difficult alloy.
Worked better than when he tried to do the same with cookies.
He should patent his adaptations to the process.
He should team up with a youtuber that focuses more on metals like CodysLab or a materials scientist like Alpha Phoenix.
A man approaches you, he smells of Raspberry perfume and hes wielding a Bismuth knife. His finger is adorned with a rare purple gold ring. Intoxicated by his homemade toilet paper moonshine, he smiles at you exposing custom gold grillz.
What do you do?
Fucking RUN
Ask for an autograph and a picture
Marriage, immediately.
Accept his offer to go back to the magical alchemy dungeon and trade my services for teachings in production of psychedelics.
Hopefully he proposes with my own set of pinkish purple gold grillz.
End up having a Las Vegas drive thru wedding while cross faded on toilet paper moonshine and toxic frog.
Fast forward to the end of the night taking an explosive bath together watching the city burn from the window….
Is this comment AI generated? Just wondering.
The loss of Gold was almost certainly connected to the Sanding portion of your working with it. You likely have a significant amount that is still in the matrix of the sandpaper you used, and there is also a loss of gold in dust form through air movement. I would suggest using a wet sanding method in a container or water where the gold dust will be collected in the water of the container. I also saw when you hammered earlier pieces of purple gold, small pieces flew off due to the brittle nature of the metal. and because gold is so heavy it doesn't take much gold loss to amount to 5 grams. but it is still a lot of gold to lose. so, if and when you decide to work with gold alloys again, make sure you are using a vacuum with a filter that can collect the gold dust or better yet just sand the gold inside of a water filled container to that all of the abraded gold can be kept from being lost. Also not go hammering any of those pieces anymore because metal does form into crystals when freezing and if it is brittle like the purple gold, you made hammering it will cause the crystals to break apart and some of them will shatter. to get an idea of how to keep all of your gold in a form that will minimize loss you should watch Sreetips and his gold refining videos, but it does little to show how to keep your dust to a minimum. Work your gold in a different medium than air, work it in water, or rather sand it in water. Your Dremel can be hooked up to a flex shaft and you can do your shaping of the gold in water as well. this will prevent loss but may not stop it all. when working with precious metals, jewelers have to accept a certain amount of loss, and this loss is figured into the price of the Jewelry being made. Sure, jewelers collect as much dust and granules of the precious metals they work with but it can never be truly all accounted for This is just the nature of the world we live in.
Yeah it's absolutely hilarious that he says he has no idea how he lost it! The whole video long he's smashing stuff and pieces are flying off, tons of it going into the sandpaper, random blobs splashing out of the crucible, ...
I was watching the sanding.. I agree.. he was also pretty aggressive.. plus the dremel tool .. that’s a lot of loss .. but makes sense
Liked the comment so that Nile sees this.
My suspicion was it went into dust form and just kind of permeated his environment. But likely a good floor sweeping, plus brushing his clothes, and recovering metal from the sandpaper, would help.
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Same thoughts here.
I thought that nothing would beat aerogel in terms of complications, congratulations, that ring is incredible!
The missing gold is likely from the sanding and polishing. Even if you got all the fine dust that piled up, there was still probably some left on the sandpaper, especially with the finer grains.
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And casting. Some of the gold stuck to the crucible, unless Nile managed to get it out.
I agree atleast 95 percent of that 3 lost after the initial 1 percent lost from the 99.9 was from the sanding, the rest could have been some percent from the none gold or lost from the beaker.
I absolutely agree. I even said the same thing. I couldn't believe he couldn't catch that. It's almost shocking someone's so smart could not catch the fact that he was just picking up the fine particles
I came here to say that most was likely lost due to loading (getting stuck) in the sandpaper.
This man just casually playing with $5700 of gold, throwing it in chemicals, melting it into random shapes, and sanding and heating it like he knows what he's doing or something...
Man, I am quite jealous of this dude's knowledge of chemistry. And now also his one-of-a-kind purple gold ring. That thing actually looks pretty cool.
Not that complicated. Hillbillys during the gold rush have been doing it for hundreds of years dissolving gold with aqua regia or mercury
Smelting and casting are vastly complicated. I'm really impressed with how you trial-and-errored your way to the finish line. The ring is gorgeous
He finally reached level 2 in smelting!
The forbidden Pepsi 8:35
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I worked in a Aluminum foundry. For degassing the metal the graphite rod had to be spinning with teeth at end to "chop up" the argon to grab more hydrogen. We also added strontium (less than 2%) to make the parts stronger
Woah what’s this about strontium? Lol
This is such a genuinely cool and insightful comment. It's so cool that you were able to bring experience from your work life into this neat purple gold video!
hope nile sees this
O hello fellow foundry man. I am currently studying to work in a foundry
@@fromthefire4176yeah would love a follow up on that Strontium business.
NileRed videos are honestly a perfect example of why “if at first you don’t succeed, try again” is a common phrase for a reason. Seeing how he continues to deal with problems as they arise and the suffering as more and more problems mount is pretty inspirational.
If at first you don't succeed, Blast them with your blue eyes white dragon again
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Never in my life have I made it through 53 minutes of chemistry, but this channel is gold… pure purple gold
Wait til you see him turn gloves into grape soda
Ummmmmmhhh actshually pure purple gold doesnt exist since its alloy🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
we used to make an atmospheric containment cabinet to weld certain alloys. Get a sand blast cabinet. put a hole in the bottom and put an argon or nitrogen hose into the hole and tape or seal it up. Drill a small hole at the top back of the cabinet and tape a small piece of angle under it. put a very short candle close to that hole. When the oxygen is out of the cabinet, the candle will go out. Melt with a torch or whatever in the cabinet.
I come from a family of Jewelers with an over 50 year history of being in the business. Purple gold is not the only interesting color you can find the alloy in. In the early 2000s Green Gold suddenly became very popular for a brief time. Rose gold has been very common place for a long time as has white gold. The most striking color of it in my opinion is an alloy of either gallium or indium. It looks kind of like Cobalt. When I heard you wanted to break that bar down with a hammer my heart skipped a beat. Gold is incredibly mailable, the purer the bar the soft it is. You can also get a Jewelry Workers Kit for very cheap and it should have all the tools you need except for the for maybe the Manual Rolling Mill Machine.
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@@p-__ he can chemically synthesize farts (video idea)
Do you have any more tips? I want to handcraft a set of rings by hammering, primarily for the look of a hammered surface.
I plan for them to be durable, reworkable, and entirely made of precious metals and/or their alloys.
I might make a piece for a necklace later on, idk
Amateur jeweler here, played with alloys of gold back in the early 2000s. You can also get various shades of pink. Purple is fun, maybe Nile will start a trend.
Tempting to go back to jewelry. So much you can do with semi precious stones and metals.😊
Wow that sounds so cool! Can I intern for you guys lol 😂
7:50 As soon as the gold was completely dissolved, I thought to myself, man, the worst thing that could happen is if he spilled this beaker of $5,700 orange soda. I basically yelled out loud when I saw it slip.
dude, this exactly hahahaha i flipped out
I pictured dropping or spilling it as well! It definitely put me on edge haha.
He did the same thing with bromine lol
I was expecting the prank. Still gave me a heart attack
That was such an easy joke, considering he already did it once)
Dude just completely reverse engineered, fully documented, and probably even improved a deeply proprietary jewelry process based on a one line recipe in a patent, what an absolute beast. I'm thinking most of your gold loss was in the sanding and grinding, especially if you didn't chemically extract the gold from the used sandpaper.
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and now its public and non-proprietary, not requiring a patent!
I'm guessing that he did extract it chemically...
@@p-__ Scientifically impossible. Go away
@@kitsunekaze93 The entire point of patients is that you share the information with the public (no reverse engineering needed) and then the exclusive right to use it, defending with lawyers instead of secrecy.
Omg, I need a ring in that pink color!! I love it. So cool, ur so smart
Hi Nigel, its very common for sandpaper to cling on to some amounts of the item they are sanding. Usually as the item is sanded, some of it becomes powder fine enough that the moisture makes it cling to itself, or sometimes to the sand paper's grit. While careful preparation (i.e. using specific types of abrasive papers/belts) and environmental controls can help mitigate it, it is hard to reduce it to zero. This clinging is also why sandpaper loses its abrasiveness as you use it and have to be replaced once it gets fully gunked up.
This was my first thought, too, having just casually sanded a lot of sets of dice to mirror-shines.
He needed a file.
Lots jewelers use files for roughing
yes i have found that you can treat the sandpaper beforehand to midigate the sticking of the material. i use this to save the sandpaper. but that might contaninate the experiment. i use chalk to do this.
I was about to suggest this, along with suggesting that if the sandpaper hasn't been thrown out, trying to refine the gold back out of it would be a good way to test this theory.
Also, once the abrasives are loose from the paper, they can contaminate the metal.
Just something to think about when casting
Hi, was a jeweler when I was teen, and we'd sell used polishing pads to larger jewlers since lots of the gold we'd polish would microscopically end up there. So I'm sure the sandpaper and whatever you used to polish has some gold in it. So I wouldn't throw away any sandpaper or pads you used to polish if you wanna salvage some gold, cause it adds up quickly
This is gonna be it, plus the stuff that sticks to the crucibles
Thats probably where he lost the 4.9 grams
I thought this too, as sanding is removing material. He didn’t show what happened to the sand paper, but did show multiple new sheets across all the attempts. 5g isn’t all that much, so it’s possible it got sanded away, dremeled, and polished away. Recovering the gold from those would interesting to see, though I imagine it would be time consuming.
@@BenjaminSeuser It actually wouldn't be all that hard but yeah time consuming. The good part is he has that part down already. Reduce the sandpaper to ash, Run the acid extract. Filter any trash out then pull the gold from the acid. I was going to use a method similar when I was extracting gold from pc components. ROM Chips using micro gold wire inside of them and incineration was the best method i found to get that out.
This would also explain why it would turn silver when he sanded it that's for sure where the gold went
There's literally only NileRed out there on TH-cam to make me watch a 53 minute long video without skipping all the time. Mesmerising and relaxing are the words that come to my mind watching your videos. Keep up the good work, I love it.
Sam Sulek..?
@@arnefines2356 I heard about him, he often makes very long videos a videos. However it's not quite my taste, I am not very interested in body building. But I've heard he is becoming very popular.
holy shit didnt even realise it was 53 minutes.
💯
And I know that we want it to be longer
Excellent video. I have not read all the comments (hundreds of them) with conjectures about the gold loss experienced, but I know where some of it went.
NileRed had done many repurifications of the gold after various failed purple gold attempts and it was done through chemical digestion. Some of the molecular gold has been carried out of the reactor vessel in the various vapors that occur during the AR digestion. That small amount has been deposited on the inner walls of his fume hood as well is up
the exhaust chimney. Unless he is using a water wash in the discharge gas stream, most of that has probably been lost to the atmosphere. There has also been a small amount lost during all the melting operations - especially during the argon gas bubbling treatments.
I have no idea how much of the mass has been lost in those ways, but do know that some large volume precious metals refiners have torn out their contaminated flue linings and processed them to recover the precious metals.
I like that you don't just act like you researched and got it right first try. Showing your trials and errors along the way, and bringing us all on the journey with you is what makes this channel truly special.
124 likes and no comments? let me fix that
True
And that’s what makes it interesting and fun
my farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨
The really cool thing about NileRed’s process is that at several steps he is essentially rediscovering several known phenomena and problem solving routes. Some of them were him reading the patent or metal working articles, yes, but some of them were trial and error followed by post hoc hypotheses, adjustments and retesting, the same sorts of processes the original discoverers went through. He took what is apparently one of the most difficult to work with metal alloys and produced a professional or near professional quality product without even the specialist knowledge in casting, degassing, etc that could be considered a prerequisite. This is a shining example of practical learning combined with creative application of prior knowledge.
Yep. That's what every woodworker goes through, sculptor, artists.
I could not have summarized why I like watching his videos better.
There is also a "blue gold", that means a gold intermetallic phase with indium or gallium. Purple gold is also known as purple plague because it is an unwanted corrosion process of gold junctions in microchips.
Green Gold exist too😮
75% of gold, 15% of silver, 6% of copper and 4% of cadmium. This alloy is of dark green color.
@@CUBETechiebut it's dangerous to wear cause of the cadmium right?
@@naftyloescher I believe so, since it's toxic
@@_Yuki.v. well in jewelry production and gem stone treatment are multible toxic and even radioactive means used. the manufactures use unharmful amounts
Jezzz, this vid is gonna be used as a reference by people in the industry. My man.
As someone who uses sandpaper a lot, I can almost guarantee that the gold that you lost simply just got stuck in the sandpaper. Soft metal is very good at clogging sandpaper grit and with as much sanding as you claimed to have done, I'm genuinely surprised you didn't lose more than you did lol
Yea metals u gotta grind and he didn’t grind it cuz sanding it didn’t work but grinding it would definitely work
WooooW!! I didn't think about that 🤔 sheer simplicity...brilliant!!
I'm pretty sure he'd have had to have recovered the gold from that. It's pretty simple if you just burn the paper. Getting the sand out would be harder though.
@@GameDesignerJDG and you also have to remember that a lot of that “sand” is actually aluminum oxide. I’m no chemist, but I would think that introducing other chemicals into the mix would make recovery a bit more challenging lol
Thats so obvious, he must have thought about that and just dumped the sandpaper into some acid to dissolve everything but the gold
Nile really made himself a name in the history books. Respect. Obviously purple gold has existed before but Nile here just innovated on the fact on how to make this sort of gold economically feasible. Plus the knowledge itself of casting all these metals is always appreciated to be known by those like me who watched this video since the field of metallurgy is incredibly complex and can't be comprehened by those who don't know that much about this field. Awesome video and what an awesome achievement Nile. You should be proud.
If I was to steal like 3 gold bars could I melt them down to nothing using the chemicals which makes it clear water looking, Let the cops search all of my home finding nothing & when they leave I'm able to bring it all back
"The field of metallurgy is incredibly complex and can't be understood by people who don't know that much about it." Thank you for this textbook example of *circular reasoning* 👍👍
@@MrLeiduowen If you are policing people's words, at least quote them properly
@@Problemsolver434 Sorry if that hurts, but I'm talking about logic, not diction here.
@@MrLeiduowen Hurts? Are you being serious? 😅😅
Regardless, there is no circular reasoning in what you quoted.
You’re not going crazy about the gold loss - in my workshop, we call it ‘Fairy Tax’ - a tax paid to the fairies for good luck on the piece. Works every time 😅
Oh, interesting....kinda like the Angel's Share in distillery work. A little of your liquor volume is lost during the fermentation process due to evaporation~
That’s perfect 😂
i thought the angel's share was the part lost during aging? @@firegodessreiko
Pretty sure he didn’t add the stuff he sanded away , seems about right for the amount lost
@@Element0145 He properly did. But properly not the dust stick to the sand paper. You can only recover them by burning(or use the acid) the sand paper to ashes.
I really loved this video! I also never thought purple gold would exist in real life, and i honestlywas shocked when i saw this video fot the first time. Good job, Nile!
Hello, metalsmith and jeweler here! This process looked BRUTAL, especially as someone who consistently works with metal to shape it into something new. You did a fantastic job, though, and your resilience is insane!
How would you have done this?
When he said "This wasn't as bad as I thought it would be" ... my first thought was "you've got more patience than I do buddy"
@@takumi2023 honestly probably no other way to do it, with metals you usually are able to plastically shape it, but this thing can't even be bent😅 closer to working with a stone than to metal
@@RENO_K Not all metals are malleable or ductile, including a lot of steel alloys. They can only be shaped by grinding and cutting. You can't reshape knife steel after it's been quenched for instance. For some brittle metals with a super high melting point, like tungsten, you can't even really cast them- any material you would use as a mold would melt too. Tungsten is actually formed by sintering. Metal powder is put in a mold or built up in layers and each one is melted or heated to near its melting point with a laser and then it fuses to a single piece. But this limits the applications for the metal since it will have very small, jagged crystal structure and be brittle.
I took jewelry in high-school. We used a wax reverse casting. And then we measured out the metal we need in a crucible. We then had a sort of centrifuge arm that held the cast and crucible and would spin around forcing the liquid metal inside.
Sadly I don't know how to do that without a whole chamber filled with Argonne to for the purple gold.
Oh my god, nilered. Having been a hobbyist Goldsmith for nearly 6 years, I have never even known about having a metal be coloured like this. The closest unusual colors I could work with were blue titanium, chrome/soapy titanium, pink or green gold (which is an even bigger pain to work with than this), but this, this is so amazing to see. I love how your chemistry path has somehow crossed into what is my passion in a way that inspires me further.
One of the main appeals of gold is the gold 'colour'.
@@kirkc9643 bet. That's why brass, bronze and Nordic gold (variant of bronze) are also so very popular for people to work with, or wear. (Note, coat the brass with something like hairspray so it doesn't oxidize on your fingers).
Wayyy
I am, for the first time in my over 50 years, looking to buy some gold. Just to have it in my hands for the first time. And, as I understand it, it's not a bad investment! It generally doesn't lose value. LOL
Back story, when I lived in S Florida, I used to dive, but more often just metal detected the beaches. I accumulated a pill bottle of 'scrap' gold. I really wanted to learn how to purify it. But then I had a roommate that allowed a friend of his to stay on the couch. In short, this person had a drug problem. The rest is obvious. My gold, my Sig P226, my coin collection, much of witch was given to me by my father. All gone. I still push it outta my head when I think back on it.
I've considered buying leaf, cuz it't the best, but the geek in me is fascinated by the pure raw material as a sample.
Any advice is welcome, and many thanks in advance.
@friskfromutoh I'd love to see that too
I wouldn't be surprised if this video has a genuine impact on the jewelry industry and purple gold becomes a lot more common because there is now a visual tutorial on how to do this stuff
Well theres a patent on the process he used so only the company that owns is can sell it commercially.
I looked up the patent and I think I found the right one
I don't know a ton about patents, so I'm probably reading this wrong, but it seems like it's expired
I don't know for sure because it was submitted in 2000, but it wasn't granted until 2005, it lists an expected expiration of 2020, but because it's only listed as expected and it was granted in 2005, it's either already expired or it's going to expire in 2025
@@snod5436 there also are countries that will just not care about the US-based patent
@@snod5436 What process would that be? It's not clear that the patent was required here for anything other than some essential information about "purple gold".
I'm pretty sure that the general method smelting metal and adding a second metal to create an alloy isn't patentable. Annealing is also a ancient and standard metalworking process.
Attempting to prevent oxidation or another gas sneaking in when the hydrogen leaves by surrounding the metal with a "noble gas" isn't exactly novel.
The exact ratio of Gold (Au) to Aluminum (Al) and other elements used for a company's product might count as trade secrets if they were kept private, but also isn't patentable info afaik (i.e. the 81:19 ratio).
It might be challenging to mass produce it and sell products (especially jewelry) due to the risk of patent infringement. And having read the patent and used thatinformation could complicate the situation.
But I think this guy can probably make and sell as many purple gold bars as he likes without a problem, as long as he's doing just what's shown in the video.
@@Nworthholfwho cares about murica
7:51 YOU GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK
NileRed is the definition of "learning from your mistakes"
Science as a whole is just a process of learning from past mistakes too
So just people who create stuff in general
@@blackkitty148 I know what you mean but actually not. Cause mistakes do not happen in proper science as it open to any result and it is solely about getting data on something. However humans do make mistakes in scientific approaches. But it's only a mistake if scientifically you know it better already. But as we most often have something in mind when doing sciences, it does not mean at all science does not produce failures. But that is solely on our own ambition, to science everything is a win as you get data from it, even if it's only a verification. So no, science does not learn from mistakes but humans can do.
@@christian9540 you're right. That was a great approach.
Beautiful narration and video. 😊
As a chemist who is way older than you, I am floored by what you accomplished.
Having TH-cam money to piss away on sweet equipment can't hurt.
Tell more
And continuing like my heart wasn’t beating out of my chest.
@@chrisprysok7634 he is still way smarter than you bud
@@maxballdepth6055 i dont think they meant that in a rude way just a vulgar term
I didn't think I would spend Christmas watching a one hour documentary about making purple gold, but here we are.
Amazing work documenting all of your progress!
😂😂 I didn't realise I spent an hour watching this
Its the 26th wdym
Something about timezones are VERY confusing right now.
Right?! It's the 28th at 8pm where I am right now, granted I'm in a +12 timezone but there's no way anywhere in the world was the 25th nine hours ago. Unless youtube is just messed up and when comments are posted isn't correct.
@@NFBartos like its 2 40 pm on the 28th for me and 14 minus 23 hours means it was on the 27th. I just messed up the math earlier.
This was an absolute roller coaster of emotions for me lol. I dont know how I got on metalsmithing side of TH-cam but this is fascinating
I truly believe that purple gold will become much more popular in jewelry after this video.
From people wanting it, From people finding out how to make it or both?
@@arran4285 a bit of both.
I thought the same thing. I really want the heart-shaped earrings they sold on the site.
yes
Or use it to hide your stash
You should attempt to make blue gold, it's a rare alloy of gold made possible using indium or galium in combination with the gold. The result is a really nice blue or cyan color.
YA it's so pretty aswell
Agreed. Would like to see him try it
Please do this
Please do this! Would be an awesome sequel to this video
I'd love to see this! I hope it won't be as hard as the purple gold.
As a long time viewer, this has got to be one of if not the most impressive things you've made or done on this channel. The brutal process, the expensive materials, the lack of information available online, and you managed to complete a beautiful and unique piece of art/jewelry/metal. The break in the ring to allow for contraction, while not on purpose, worked perfectly. and you probably would have figured to try it after a few more attempts. Keep up the great work!
In Short, the Recipe is what?
@@slevinchannel7589 Gold melted together with aluminum, preferably both be pure. Mix the molten metals together and let it cool into a hard crystal. While it may not look like the final product immediately, rather it'll look like a dark-colored blob of failure; "Simply" (loosely used word) break the product into pieces or in half. If done correctly, you should have pinkish-purple gold.
This is mostly a summary of what Nile did. Except, he went through the added steps of completely purifying the gold by giving it a bath in hydrochloric acid and nitric acid. Once he had a form of acid (I don't remember the name) that presented as a bright orange, he washed it with hot water and hot distilled water. He then put in another chemical (very helpful, I know - I don't remember its name either) and shifted the form from a liquid to a powder. This form guaranteed that Nile had an absolute, pure output of gold. From here, he dried it via heating until all the moisture was gone, and he was left with a dry powder. From this point, you can then melt the powder with extreme heat, which will give you a blob of molten gold. As mentioned previously, this is where you add the aluminum, and wait for the final product.
Gold chemistry is honestly so unbelievably underrated. Those relativistic electrons really put in the work to cause some wacky stuff! You should also try making titanium gold alloy, cesium auride, tetraxenonogold 2+ anion, and porous gold some time.
It's not underrated, it is just too expensive. That's more likely the issue.
@@christian9540 Not compared to stuff like rare earth chemistry or radioisotope chemistry, yet those get explored a lot. Not to mention how hard to procure some of those can be. Gold is actually quite reasonably priced and easy to get a hold of compared to a lot of chemistry stuff. It just gets a bad rap for being unreactive.
@@StuffandThings_ well I am not sure what you consider "reasonal priced", but e.g. rare earth elements have nothing to do with being rare nowadays but with their impurity when you gather them as being part of sort of rare minerals back then. And it's actually quite a group of elements. They are not at all that super expensive.
The reason why chemistry and stuff for an element is more or less advanced is essentially because of it's cost - even though this includes more than just the price for it's pure form.
However, you can expect AI of solving that issue quite fast and you will see tons of new stuff based on that.
Respect. I know first hand how difficult and frustrating it is to cast metal with the minimum kit at home. Many times I’ve been on the tenth attempt to get something right and wasted days sanding. People often say online something cannot be done, until you’ve done it. For what it's worth, I would have CNC'd your walls as thin as possible and built in a little pouring shoot, then the expansion and contractions should break the mold not the ring.
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@@EdiiEliHi
Why not just CNC the ring instead of casting it?
@@paranoidzkitszo Because it's cheating 😂
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Nile's videos are so well structured that they make you think you know something about chemistry
my farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨
He is the reason why I know isononinal 😂
As a gold trader and broker retired now this was fascinating to watch thank you for uploading this I miss my work
I honestly like the gap in the ring, it's unique and looks way nicer than I thought it would.
My farts are better than NileRed's farts
My thoughts exactly. When I saw the gap in the mold, my creative mind just kept yelling like; Keep it! Embrace it! Work with it!
@@p-__why the spam, man?
@@existenceispain_geekthesiren I saw a theory - he's satirizing the bots. (I'm surprised and a little impressed hat satirizing is an actual word, and not just one I created)
yeah
The split in the ring is actually really beautiful. I like how you managed to make it symmetrical along the split too.
My farts are better than NileRed's farts
@@p-__ Bro what
@@p-__hope someone sees this
I think you've advanced the field of purple gold metallurgy by several years
Or at least the information available on the public domain.
*Pold
@@raghudurina2354 which will advance the field since this will allow more people to try different things
@@the_reapingcatwhat pold?
@@Ștefan_cel_Mare_și_Sfânt
purple + gold = pold
We were not just watching a TH-cam Video. We went through the process of "knowing nothing" to "making a purple gold ring of your own size".
We are grateful for being a part of a journey of this much determination and a continuum of efforts.
Thank You NileRed ❤
I think we need a NileGold channel where Nigel does metalworking like this. I love the new kind of thing with his usual style.
This is such a good idea !
NileJewelery
He should team up with a custom jeweler who can help him make this stuff even better
A whole very valuable gold bar just disappearing into a liquid is a wild thing to watch. And the dropping prank made me jump out of my chair. I keep forgetting how cool chemistry is. Luckily there are few creators like NileRed here on TH-cam that can keep reminding me.
I was expecting the joke, recognised the setup and still it felt awful.
My farts are better than NileRed’s farts
My heart dropped into the pit of my stomach when he dropped that jar
I literally said "NNOOOOooooooooo" A bit too loud and my dad asked if I lost in a game 😂
I went with F#&k 😅😅
Nigel being surprised at losing a few grams of gold with the B-reel of him sanding off 10% of the mass of the casting got a chuckle out of me.
And every time the stuff on the spatula.
Bruh, don't you think that he probably just collected all of that?? Come on, what do you think?
My farts are better than NileRed’s farts.
he said he collected it. that is why he was doing it by hand
@@supernenechiThere's a significant amount that can and does get stuck between the grit of the sandpaper. He would probably have to process all the pieces of sandpaper in order to reclaim it.
I don’t know how I found this TH-cam rabbit hole but this is awesome
As someone from Singapore, I was so surprised when you mentioned Lee Hwa Jewellery, I didn't even know that their purple gold jewellery was so special. Also, amazing video as always!
Not anymore, from this moment on.
And it was developed by Singapore polytechnic if you noticed.
@@gugly8ur insane. It still is hard to make 💀
@@teckwee18is it ngee ann poly
I think the point is that, although it may be a challenge to make. It's a process that can be done with some jerry rigged stuff. For an established jewelry company with cash to spend on equipment, this is 'easy' relatively speaking.@@noiz1762
As a Singaporean, I knew about Lee Hwa Jewellery's purple gold. I thought it was just a gimmick. But I had no idea that purple gold was such a rare metal, and that it was such a hard and tedious thing to make!
Yea this is so normal here that I was surprised to hear that it only exists in SG.
It's not a single metal, it's an alloy
oh I love your nickname so much!
I just rewatched it two months ago. I wish they'd release more...
@@adeemuff did you watch the latest card captor sakura clear card season?
@@everope aye, you know what I mean 🙂
This man's dedication to this project was pure purple gold.
my farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨
I love this comment
Well he didn't make pure purple gold
@@Thy_cockroach_crusader actually he did make PURE purple gold, since purple gold consist of 81,5% gold and 18,5% aluminum alloy, and he made the ring using that recipe
@@moncang3265 that isn't pure. It's only that but it's not pure.
Man, I can see why so few places make/work with purple gold, this sounds like a major pain. That said, good on you for version one. I eagerly await for you to come back to this and make a perfected version - I know you want to.
I’m studying materials! This was fun from a materials perspective. “Gamma phase” is a type of crystal structure that’s dependent on the alloy percentages and the cooling process (Look up “alloy phase diagrams” and you’ll get some examples) Here, it seems that the crystal structure is what makes that pretty purple color, which is why sanding it causes the alloy to turn silver (destroyed the crystal structure) and why annealing it brings it back (crystal structure reforms during the annealing process).
Thanks for the simple explanation! I was wondering why... any of the colorations were depending on what was happening, and that helps make it clear for a layman like me.
Very cool stuff!
Ooh, that's awesome! Materials science is always kind of mind blowing.
@@volbla It really is... Ever have those moments where you just pause to look at what's around you, and think about all of the discoveries and all of the work that has gone into creating what you see? All of it basically just pulled up out of the dirt.
It's easy to get cynical about modern technology and modern life... but it's also inspiring, and yeah, just simply mind blowing is the best way to describe it.
This is exactly what I was thinking, just like magnets!! Thank you for confirming!
Phd student in metallurgy here. Looking at the gold aluminum phase diagram (and it’s pretty easy to predict from
Hume-Rothery) gold and Al form a very strong FCC solid solution (gamma phase) up to 78 wt% where AuAl2 starts precipitating. It’s been established that AuAl2 is the purple phase. The silver is not the gamma being destroyed, it is the very brittle inter metallic being pulled out or smeared over by the mechanical action- the silver is simply the gamma matrix- at 30+ at% Al, I would expect the matrix to be mostly silvery, though obviously I haven’t done the band structure calculations to prove that.
The fact that Nile wanted something, found out he couldn't buy it, and then made it is so accurate to this channel
If he bought it, there's no video, so no sh*t
@@Mixed-Media-ArtsShut up.
my farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨
@@Mixed-Media-Arts 🤓
@@p-__ this calls for a sniff test, I shall be the judge
I love the transition from chemistry Nigel to metallurgy/jeweler/machinist Nigel. At this pace, he's gonna have a lab/machine workshop combo in 2024. What a renaissance man he's becoming!
Brilliant
That was amazing
Also pretty amazing that you never gave up , and didn't swear once ! 2:54
So I've come to the conclusion that the only reason I hated chemistry is high school was because my teachers were crap. Nile made this whole thing understandable, entertaining and it is now living in my head permanently. Great job Nile. Now I am in love with purple gold and must have some.
@@dmoney677 damn if that isn't the most boomer-y response there could have been to this comment. Yes, the problem is the kids with all their drugs 🙄
Having the right teacher makes all the difference. My mother hated biology in school, but ended up with a degree in it in university after finding a professor who ignited her passion for it.
for real tho. Nile simplified it so much and i understood so well.
You just watched a 53 minute video condensing and explaining a project that took Nile hundreds of hours to complete. Of course you found it understandable and entertaining. Do you think his experience actually doing the research or the chemistry was anything like your experience watching the video? From his perspective, the experience was exponentially more frustrating, boring, and difficult. It's not fair to compare actually learning and doing things with watching a video recap which is cut and edited to be entertaining.
@@gee5418 wow there really are some pissy bitches online aren't there. Just let the person express their enjoyment about the video and learning from it, why need to be so negative about it?
The metal not making a full circle on the final attempt was definitely a blessing in disguise. I really like the end result!
Most of your missing gold is probably on the sanding paper sheets! Great work! Looks amazing!
This was exactly my thought too. I would almost guarantee this was where a portion of the missing gold wound up. :)
YUP @@rickhunter1614
Indeed.
Yeah it would be extremely hard to get it all out. Most sand paper uses aluminum oxide which makes me wonder if the purple gold could have reacted with the aluminum oxide since it has aluminum in it.
my thoughts exactly
Nothing beats Nile Red spending the entire duration of this video just clowning on his own attempts. “It was even uglier than I imagined” “it was honestly just disgusting to look at” “it was the biggest disappointment I’ve ever seen” - not actual quotes but you get the idea, like bro you’re just absolutely slaughtering that gold 😂
@45:30 You could also try annealing the mold + freshly pour metal. As soon as the metal is poured, place the mold in the oven for 30 - 60 minutes to relieve any thermal stresses. This process is common in glass making to prevent from cracking.
My farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨
Honestly nile is one of the best science communicators there is, the way he presents his videos makes it so easy to follow
I don't mean this to sound like an insult, but I think it is because he isn't a professional chemist, but a chemistry TH-camr that is learning how to do the things, then showing us.
Yes I dont have much to do with chemistry besides being interested in some stuff but just the way he pulverized the gold was really cool and i did not skip a single second of the entire video
NileRed is the chemistry equivalent of a dad building a dresser from scratch because he couldn’t find the perfect one.
As a guy with a weird taste I got into many project this way. Doesn't help that everything is generic mass produced crap nowadays and google is crap at searching for what you input and instead tries to shill you anything they can manage.
I'm not a Dad but I did have to do that with a laundry cabinet once. It needed to fit in this space between the washer and the wall. There was no way I was just going to find a premade cabinet the exact right size. But that didn't stop me from looking for days for one. Then I just made it.
@@1pcfredmy husband does the exact same thing. He hated the way our tv looked on our built in shelves so he completely redesigned it.
This is such a random simile - my father built my dresser when I was a kid (I got to help pick the pulls and paneling used on the sides). I still have it, honestly it's been in five different houses, gone about 35k miles, and is at least 30yrs old, and still looks like new.
@@AlexaFishburger sometimes you have to go custom.
It came out beautifully in the end. Just more proof that sometimes the frustration and trying over and over is worth it. Purple is my favorite color, though I almost never wear it because it just doesn't suit me, but I'd absolutely wear purple gold jewelry - that color is fantastic! Should you ever get into a relationship where you decide to get married, you should definitely consider a purple gold ring for your partner. The process being finicky and frustrating at times but having a beautiful result- I can scarcely think of a more accurate analogy for marriage. 😂