I enjoy watching your videos. Your demeanour is pleasant, and I can see you enjoy your craft and its a pleasure to see. Thank you for sharing with me

I’m loving watching this series. I know it’s older but I’m about to start my first ever process of going from constitutional and sterling silver to .999 silver and just eating up information across your channel and a few others. One question about the copper precipitation method. Sreetips seemingly over emphasized the idea of cutting copper pipe open and flattening it. I assumed that would be to easily ensure you got all the cemented silver out or something even in the safety lane. Yet you used normal pipe. Any idea why the emphasis on opening and flattening the pipe vs doing it like you did? I’m going to ask him as well. Just trying to tap the minds of people smarter than me. Thanks so much for this series. You do it all in a very clean and straight forward example. Loving it.

@LithicMetals

2 жыл бұрын

I suspect it's flattened to keep from trapping the material in the pipe and slowing the reaction within the pipe... I'm not sure. My preferred method is to use copper bars. Pipe is fine, but when it wears thin, it can flake off and leave little bits in your cemented Ag. Bars help to prevent that. I hope my vids help you a bit! Stay safe!!

@ChrisJ-mf7cj

2 жыл бұрын

@@LithicMetals thank you sir. My other thought was that maybe with a violent response the liquid might zip up that pipe and spray anything around it which would NOT be fun with HNO3

Always good videos

What an awesome video, very well don and informative! Cementing silver is such a spectacular reaction; no wonder chemists/alchemists were once considered magicians...lol. If you ever make it out in my neck of the woods you should check out Kennecott Copper Mines, it truly is a a massive mine . I sure appreciate all the hard work that went into this batch of silver. Thanks PS hope your daughters arm is doing better :)

@LithicMetals

4 жыл бұрын

I've watched that reaction hundreds of times, but I still sit and stare when I do it lol. I'm glad you're getting a kick out of the vids my man! I love old copper mines! Her cast is already off thankfully :) she's basically back to normal!

Hi. How would you re refine cemented silver after its dried? It has flakes of copper present as it a pulled out days later... And do this without nitric...?

I was wondering why that was dropping so fast. There was also a slight tinge of green on the copper tube that was up against the glass. When I saw that I was wondering if there was still some nitric in there. I'm no expert by any means but Ive done the precipitate process about 10 times now and it always takes a good amount of time and drops a bright white / silver precipitate. Once dry it looks amazing and only pales in comparison with the silver growing in the silver cell.

Correct me if I'm wrong but if you go to a copper mine you're not looking through a tailings pile you're looking through the mine dump could be wrong about that though. Thanks for sharing.

I am very integrated in this. How would you pertisapate the copper out of the solution?

@LithicMetals

2 ай бұрын

Hi Rick. I drop the copper with iron.

You should start it with Names Jeff!

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

How's that?! 🤔

👍👍👍

Chemistry degree?

@LithicMetals

Жыл бұрын

It come in handy lol

@emkoravo

Жыл бұрын

@@LithicMetals undergrad or graduate level? Considering some career change options, and what you're doing seems pretty bad ass lol

coppers bad for trees my brother

@LithicMetals

2 жыл бұрын

Not quite sure what you're referring to...

@VendettaProspecting

2 жыл бұрын

@@LithicMetals you said the copper wire was from your bonsai, hopefully they are coated in rubber that's all brother

@LithicMetals

2 жыл бұрын

@@VendettaProspecting ah gotcha... it's been a while since I posted this vid, lol I just couldn't place the reference. I'm not too sure about that claim really... using copper wire to train the branches of a tree is pretty much the standard in bonsai. I've never seen any negative effects... apart from leaving it on too long, which can cause a "scarring" due to the tree growth forming around the wire. Other than that... I've never had an issue. 🙂

@dustinscroggins3382

9 ай бұрын

There has to be a better way to rinse that silver out, have you come up with by now??