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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- This is an update to my previous video of growing copper metal crystals. I show the yield of my second batch in the same solution and ingot. This is after exactly 60 more days of growth since the first video.
First video: • How to Make Large Copp...
What I do with the solution: • Noble metals from copp...
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I am glad you mentioned that you sell these to people looking for pure elemental copper. While that answers my question why do you grow these, it raises another question: What do people who buy these do with them?
It would be amazing if you could produce native silver crystals in sizes like that!
Working on this as we speak.
You should try electroforming jewelry with some of the stones you showed in other videos. I cut and polish and then epoxy a stone to a copper ring shank and then grow copper around the stone. Looks great. Also, you can dip those crystals in some kind of acid like HCl and it would get rid of that oxidation.
I'd keep the whole thing instead of breaking it up. Really cool stuff man.
I found it AMAZING if you take natural native copper specimens and use them as your giant seed crystals. seriously amazing results
To clean copper, jewelers use either simple pool cleaner acid (or weak mix of muriatic acid) in a weak solution for 15 mins to get rid of oxidation, or lately I just use warm vinegar and salt. You can do it in cold solution too, but it takes longer. Don't leave too long or it will start to etch.
The copper crystals in the ingot resemble orange opals. Shaped and coated, they should make really interesting jewelry.
PS, check out Harbor Freight's ultrasonic cleaner. Inexpensive, but really well-made, surprisingly. I've had mine for over 10 years. It gets rough use cleaning brass casings for my reloading. It is the go to cleaner for the competitive shooting community.
If ya want to really get those to shine, clean them off in a solution of ammonia. That complexes with the copper oxides to dissolve them. I do the same thing to my silver crystals to clean them. It will really make them pop.
You can also grow copper metal crystals using a platinum electrode much faster with higher current and voltage all within half an hour.
excellent job! well explained, thanks!
Why dont you just snip the wire at the back side first to access the bases of the crystal chains
You're spraying water right next to your power supply. At least it's distilled.
Looks like a fresh picked stick of the ganja buds i grow, pick em off the same way also... almost same exact texture look to em..
When he said focus u fuck I couldn't breath because I was laughing so hard
so great project! Love it! A question, you know if the crystals you grow can conduct electricity?
Great great video's what do you do with the ending product. Do they use them in jewelry or what have you. I love the way you explain everything I wish everybody else to do the same when making a video. Have you ever heard of shattuckite, Stone that part copper. And other elements. I wonder what that would make. Thank you for posting this it was great
try fast crystallization, no matter if they are spiky, mesh the better, for ultra low density, make the crystals big, try welder as the power supply, dc
try from ground up, CuO with H2SO4, making the sulfuric acid yourself too, CuO from rocks, then to copper with electroplating
What would I need supply wise to do this method you speak of?
@@Thrashdragon no idea, figure out
I wan't to make some of these myself and photograph them! I'm a macro photographer so I imagine these would make some amazing up close shots.
I just found your channel so I apologize if this has already been shown in a later video, but do these oxidize fast?
What is so special about a crystallizing dish and do you need to use one? Thanks and great job on the copper crystals BTW.
What are copper crystals used for?
New sub, glad I found you, gathering needed materials to do the same, ty
Just put them in 30% vinegar they will shine right up
Sad there was no real close-ups of the crystals.
Much more than the first.
Why not clean them in an ultrasonic cleaner using pure distilled water???
Because I don't have one
Harbor Freight makes a really good one, surprisingly. Reloaders use them to clean their brass prior to reloading whatever cartridges they use. I have one. More than 10 years old and still going strong. $69, 10 years ago.
Do you ever sell the crystals you grow?
Why is copper the only metal with red colour?
Finally I can carve my face on my own penny
What do you do with these?
sir what is big bar other connector. 2:37 copper bar or? and what is spar only water or?
It is just a copper bar
@@Puddin spry bottle wich liquid you use?
It is just distilled water
I have a question : does it matter if you quench the ingot that you use before starting this?
Shouldn't make any difference.
IF YOU GROW POUNDS OF THESE COPPER CRYSTALS CAN YOU MAKE MONEY FROM THEM??
That on a whole slew of factors such as cost of copper, how you can melt it down, ect. I make money off of mine however I get all of my copper scrap for free to near free.
I'd like to buy some from you. Is this possible?
So in 20 yrs, you'll have a pound of copper
Where do I buy these crystals?
Dale Westaby ...eBay dude
Looks like fried chicken 🤗