Thank you for a right on point, and refreshingly clear and I might say elegant presentation

Thanks mate I are about to start collecting silver in lots of other ways but i'm impressed with the results and I have no problem with this method it should yield a lot of silver from a full size cutlery set. Thanks for the advice, and hope you have good luck with your silver collection. I plan to make quality jewelry with the silver and gold I have been scraping. 👍

@lydiaanderson2870

3 жыл бұрын

@Hello Graeme Allen, How are you doing?

Well, I can throw away my silver plated teapot now. That was very interesting. Thank you. And I loved the no sound. (except for hearing a cat)

@christhomas5761

4 жыл бұрын

lol

Always wondered how to extract the precious metals from gold and silver plated items. Now I know! Thanks

@E-BikingAdventures

4 жыл бұрын

Now you know from watching this video? I don't think so.

@vinny9549

Жыл бұрын

I'd do a little more research

You did this process in the most expensive way possible. First wayyyyy too much nitric acid. Second, going the silver chloride way. For the amount a silver in the plating, you should have started with distilled water then added nitric drop wise. This would have almost minimized the fuming and you would have only used about 20ml of nitric max. This would have left you with a silver nitrate solution. You then would just need a bit of copper which would have forced the silver to drop out of solution and pure silver.

@helives2630

6 жыл бұрын

Where would one purchase nitric at a reasonable price and second, would the silver precipitate onto the copper or drop to the bottom of the solution. Also, what is left when the silver has dropped out? Is it nitric again, reusable or what? Thanks.

@SolTrainToFreedom

5 жыл бұрын

@@helives2630 You can always buy muriatic acid, some septic tank deoderizer (make sure it contains nitrate), some hydrogen perozide and some electrical wire, and you can make a weak nitric acid by running the fumes through distilled water. You can distill it again if you want it more pure. So all in all, you can get nitric acid for about 15$ if you are patient

@E-BikingAdventures

4 жыл бұрын

@@helives2630 the silver will form on the copper and fall off and drop to the bottom. What is left is copper nitrate solution.

@royallan3717

Жыл бұрын

Exactly.just a piece of copper pipe…..clean

A Really Good Well Thought Out Video All The Best To You.

Why did you not just use copper to precipitate the silver back for pure silver? I've taken lab grade silver nitrate and dissolved copper wire in it to precipitate silver

Great video

Unless you took precautions not shown in the video, there may be lead chloride present in your "silver chloride".

when you were done putting the silver into solution, you could have just put a piece of copper into the solution and the silver would cement out as actual silver instead of silver chloride. The silver in solution trades places with the copper. When it's done, no silver in solution and some of the copper is in solution. No sodium chloride, no silver chloride, just silver. Melt it and pour it.

Nice video minus lack of audio

I would have liked the drying process and some audio.

@lydiaanderson2870

3 жыл бұрын

@Hello Bill Woodman, How are you doing?

heat up the nitric acid to speed up the reaction

That's a lot of f****** work for $8

What percentage of nitric are you using

Will hydrochloric acid work for this as well?

Cool Thanks!

if a knife says stainless steel on the blade , how do i know if the handle is silver or if its also stainless

@Federico84

4 жыл бұрын

blades are always in stainless steel

This is a great video.

The salt makes AgCl right? Wouldn't it be easier to use salt water?

@Ammondn

8 жыл бұрын

+Alexander Inghram you could but it does not matter much.

that comes out that each piece has about .40 cents worth of silver when the price of silver is worth $14.60 per ounce. Is this worth it?

@brandonkelbe

5 жыл бұрын

WalshPhoto Not if you’re paying a lot for those chemicals.

Could have pulled the pure silver out of the nitrate with a copper bar. Save some steps.

Wow I seriously have 45 lb of silver plated silverware 🥄

@NwoDispatcher

3 жыл бұрын

45lb * 454g = 20430g 20.430kg * 24g = 490.32g 490.32g / 28g = 17.5oz silver

Where's the sound?

So spend $80 in chemicals to get $8 in silver.

your doing that deadly nitric reaction outside with children in the back round. real swift genius hope you did not harm yourself or anyone else. And what other base metal are you dissolving with the nitric along with the silver? What method do you use to purify your silver? I suggest you get a fume hood.

Wouldn't it have been simpler to put a copper strip in the nitric to precipitate the silver?

@Gigadramon6

6 жыл бұрын

If the nitric acid were completely reacted into silver nitrate, sure. But if there's any left, it'll just dissolve the copper. Also, sodium chloride is far cheaper, and it is also a far slower reaction.

This sucks only because you didn't finish and melt that stuff down. Otherwise this would have been great!

can you melt this cloride at this point ? no lye & sugar ?

@jaaamie3223

4 жыл бұрын

Yes of course you can, if you add enough heat the silver chloride will decompose to metallic silver and the chlorine to chlorine gas.

@spotlobac7694

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaaamie3223 far out, i dont know why i see these guys puting in lye & sugar ???

@jaaamie3223

4 жыл бұрын

@@spotlobac7694 because they are idiots and like to extra contaminate the material, wich has to be washed out before melting unless you want a caramelized Silver. Anyway that is one interesting method to get metallic silver out of silver chloride but not the most efficient one.

@spotlobac7694

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaaamie3223 thanx ace , i had to ask i have about 2 oz. cooking in nitric / water solution as we speak.

@spotlobac7694

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaaamie3223 i did the nitrate & copper, easy. but why..... not worth much nice show.

Hi. I think silver oxide pure than silver chlorid

Talk. I'm multitasking

@dbeaten4189

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

10 grams is 1/3 of an ounce and if silver is $15,/ounce he got $5 for all that work. If this calculation is wrong let me know.

@SolTrainToFreedom

5 жыл бұрын

Technically, its a tiny bit less than a third. A troy ounce has 31.1035 grams, so by my math ((10*.754)/31.1035)*15=$3.63 Because he really only grabbed about .2424 Troy Ounces of silver after you remove the weight of the chlorine from the silver chloride. As he stated before silver is 75.4% of the weight of the silver chloride. I personally havent checked that but it sounds about right. Correct me if I messed up my math!

@Notric

2 жыл бұрын

@@SolTrainToFreedom used about $3 of nitric so maybe 63cents profit?

@devanh8592

Жыл бұрын

you didnt get a third of an oz off of three fork handles thats a lie

how do you dispose of the acid? pour it in my flowers?

@deepdarkabyss1040

7 жыл бұрын

put bakeing soda in it smallammounts at a time

@buggsy5

6 жыл бұрын

What would that accomplish? The waste waters are not particularly acidic - they contain mostly soluble salts.

How much revelition silver plate prom manila

refluxing the NOX would be best...

@Ammondn

8 жыл бұрын

+Kristian B Lerche Reflux means to boil.., NO is like carbon monoxide and can block your blood cells but most of it quickly reacts with O2 to become NO2 which is the red that you see, If its 100 ppm in the air you might have a chocking fit/ reaction that can cause you to die, (kinda like an allergic reaction). If it looks dark red that how you know its 100 ppm. luckily there wasn't very much and it was in a well vented area. There might be toxicity but i couldn't find anything in the msds.

using another method of recovery,.344 silver plated forks=1 ounce 925 silver.

@buggsy5

6 жыл бұрын

But how much did you spend on the chemicals, and possibly electricity/fuel to get that silver worth approximately $14 spot? That is approximately 0.10 gram sterling/fork - at under $0.50/gram, each fork produced about $0.05 worth of silver. I suspect it would be hard to even make sufficient chemicals at that rate of return.

@Ta2dwitetrash

2 жыл бұрын

I found using pure nitric and precipitating with copper i end up with an ounce from about 50 pieces of silverware.

That bottle of nitric acid sitting there is at least $125 By the way never put nitric acid in a fucking plastic container you're lucky you didn't just burn right through

May Lenox silver plate po ako baka Alam nyo po Ang price to antik po sya , at ni lagyan po ni mama Ng Amoryatik hndi po sya na ngalawang o nasira

@roseannaclo5305

Жыл бұрын

Naging Ganyan din po Yung kulay Ng ni lagyan ni mama Ng Amoryatik Yung linox silver plate na napulot lang namin

the handles, not the blades

@FOUGEDDABOUDIT4509

7 жыл бұрын

Blades on knives are stainless steel

@buggsy5

6 жыл бұрын

Not always. That is mostly true for dinner knives like the ones shown. But I have a number of butter/jam knives that are solid sterling.

Hello every one wehave a silver plate there who interested

Now what can u do with that salty silver you took off. ??

@davesulphate4497

7 жыл бұрын

With a little knowledge of chemistry u can do loads of stuff, like make silver metal, or if you are foolhardy or a pyro freak u can make fulminating silver, there is almost no end of things you could do with it.

You have made silver chloride, now what? If you heat it, it will fly away.

@buggsy5

6 жыл бұрын

Not if you do so properly.

@svenp6504

5 жыл бұрын

You treat it with NaOH to convert it to AgOH/Ag2O and then sugar to convert to Ag metal. Then melt. Very simple.

I can't get Nitric Acid. This video is useless.