“This doesn’t need to be perfect by any means.” *spends several minutes making micro-adjustments.” “There we go, perfect!” Lol love it

This looks like the most complicated fried chicken recipe on the planet.

@brandobeezy9863

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@alxcuisine9575

5 жыл бұрын

Extra Cu-rispy ! 🤣🤣🤣

@bullie86

5 жыл бұрын

Probably tastes like shit too

@Elitesturm06

5 жыл бұрын

@@bullie86 Probably breaking your teeth too :D

@andresshamis4348

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking of that I swear I was about to comment it

I love youtubers, they do things so I don't have to.

oh nice i was looking for a good copper crystal growing tutorial

@NightRunner417

5 жыл бұрын

I was like totally meh about it. I had my heart set on Rutherfordium. No one just does that sort of thing anymore. Kids, these days, always going for the common metals. Not a care in the world for how that shit's just gonna turn green someday like the pine needles it looks like anyway. And where's the challenge? Rutherfordium has a half life in it's most stable form of only 1.3 hours. Try your little crystal growing experiment while dealing with unruly daughter products and the source metal spittin out alphas like a boss all the way. You wanna impress the world on KZread? Walk on the edge a little, bro. Show some chutzpah.

@NightRunner417

3 жыл бұрын

@Mister Dicken I have, long long ago. Alum makes seriously pretty crystals - very complex and crystal clear like glass. One of the easiest things in the world to get a big, pretty crystal out of.

@NightRunner417

3 жыл бұрын

@Mister Dicken For water soluble things like alum, salt or sugar, all you really need to do is heat water and stir in your crystal making chemical of choice until no more will dissolve. This is called 'Super saturation", and crystals will start to grow on any suitable surface as soon as the liquid cools. The usual method is to hang a string in the liquid and just let it be with the top open so the liquid can evaporate and more and more crystals will grow on the string. To get a really nice crystal for display, you can take a crystal grown that way and hang it from a string in more supersaturated solution of the same type that made the crystal. The crystal will then immediately start to grow, acting as a perfect target for growth in the container. Doing it this way over and over, you can make a really big, really pretty crystal. Getting a perfect crystal is challenging, but growing huge ones that are kind of random is actually pretty easy.

@NightRunner417

3 жыл бұрын

@Mister Dicken Watched the video. That's quite a setup. I've never seen crystals grown that way, lol I guess that's like the hardcore method. Pretty cool.

Try using hydrochloric acid to shine those crystals up. HCl will not affect the copper but it will dissolve the oxides from the surface of the crystals. You will be left with very shiney crystals.

@Puddin

6 жыл бұрын

I did try using HCL to shine them up a while back and it does work for a day or two. After that though they turn very very dull.

@atrumblood

6 жыл бұрын

Hmm, probably because the freshly exposed surfaces oxidize very quickly. Maybe after a hcl treatment you could spray them in urethane to preserve the luster. Just something to block the oxygen.

@rvarnum

5 жыл бұрын

Could you reverse the current for a few hours before you pull them out?

@truthfulkarl

5 жыл бұрын

for the smaller crystals why not encase it in resin then turn it into a necklace or something?

@jamesfair4023

4 жыл бұрын

rvarnum just curious as to why you would want too. Do you think it would cause something else to happen?

This is so beautiful! Looks like little plants or corals.

This was really cool man! Thanks for taking the time and effort to make this video! I'm just now getting into this, I remember making salt crystals back in the day in science class. But these looks really cool and I'll deff would like to try this out. I know I can get ahold of good amounts of copper at work. So I'll probably start by saving and getting together as much copper as I can and then making it into a nice big bar or something in order to make my crystals when I'm ready. I actually think I'm going to try this out first before I try working with bismuth. Any way thanks for the vid once again dude!

This was way more interesting than I initially thought.

This is complicated but the end result is awesome. Thank you for sharing.

CONGRATULATIONS on your new baby!!

Congratulation on the new born and thank you for the great video.

Wow, It is beautiful and almost alive/organic. Thanks for sharing.

anything of quality in chemistry takes a long time. Good video

@andrewkvk1707

4 жыл бұрын

Explosions.

I use a 32 qt PP dog food container as a crystal growing cell. You can start the process with water and sulphuric acid, the copper sulphate will evolve from that naturally. I also do not cast anode bars. I use an anode bag and a titanium anode. In fact, I call it the TAPP cell (Titanium Anode Parting Process). In this cell, I'm removing the copper substrate from gold plated pins in the anode bag and collecting large copper crystals on the cathode wire. My cathode wire is just an insulated 10 gauge wire, with about one inch stripped clean. To date I've grown several large crystals, the largest being right at 2kg as a single pure crystal. If you leave the seed wire straight, it can be twisted and extracted from the finished crystal.

That's pretty cool. I would've left all the crystalson the wire and made a glass case for it to display the big crystal

@janegilmore102

4 жыл бұрын

tyler krug YES!!

this is very cool, they would look incredible set in resin to keep them safe

Great video,learned a lot,thanks!

This was very interesting to watch. Thanks for sharing 🙂

Pretty cool. Thanks for the video!

If you place the anode into a very fine mesh plastic container or a nylon cloth bag you will keep the 'slimes' and other unwanted contaminants from settling out on the bottom of the reaction vessel. Streetips demonstrates this method in some of his silver cell posts. I also use this method and it works quite well.

@Gon.Freecss

4 ай бұрын

Nice to see another sreetips viewer in the wild

Fascinating...like watching a micro reef grow....it spun me out that the crystal mass kind of looked like a foetus!

My spaceships on empty I'm so glad I found this. Quick trip to Walmart and I'm on my way home

Really cool and fascinating, Thank you. There is another channel where he makes pure silver crystals, he uses a stainless steel bowl.

Nicely done.

You can add surfactants to prevent the crystals from branching out. The pointiest regions gets deposited first which is why you need to add surfactants to cap those regions.

This would be a a great time lapse

Awesome, informative video thanks!. I am going to try this with Zinc.

This is really neat.

Awesome Congratulations on a million subscribers bro .. That is awesome keep up the good work dude I always watch the channel.... Cody's lab

To preserve crystals from oxydating during electrolysis you can add some sulfuric acid. Grown crystals can be saved in 0.5 -1% H2SO4

@hgmercury7279

6 жыл бұрын

it dissolves copper oxides

@Bullshitvol2

6 жыл бұрын

Copper wont oxidize if you store it dry and dont touch it. I have a piece of copper that im storing my showcase for 15 years now, and it still has that metallic gleam.

@douglashanlon1975

5 жыл бұрын

@@Bullshitvol2 yup watch a brand new copper sheet metal roof panel about three weeks after being handled while installing and the finger and hand prints are comical

@endothermicexothermic4051

4 жыл бұрын

if u add h2so4 during electrolysis, u will make them into cuso4 for saving that crystal....mineral oil / resin / argon is good choicesssss

I say the much darker ones as you go down the growth are rather beautiful and add a more interesting feel towards them, so in my opinion I'd keep the much more beautiful form of darker crystals since it does add to the unique side of it ^-^ amazing video!

@Puddin

6 жыл бұрын

I 100% agree

This is so bad ass. Thank you so much for sharing. Aloha!

WOW! Filtering made a huge difference!

Really beautiful. I wonder if you were to limit the current instead of the voltage on your power supply, if you'd get thicker individual crystals (instead of the tree branch, fractal-like pattern).

Thank you, I may try this with my stepdaughter. Looks like something we could have lost of fun doing.

@jasonolascuaga4734

4 жыл бұрын

Is it done

@scottouimet2865

4 жыл бұрын

@@jasonolascuaga4734 never got to do this one, but I got her a colored Crystal kit and we also made some crystals on a copper plate and a good size 12v battery

Thanks for sharing! What is the spray you use to clean the crystals off, is it just water?

amaziiiing! i love copper,.great work°

Iwhat would you get when growing these in a 200 gallon tank over two years or more, cathode centralized in the tank, anode around the perimeter, growing up from the bottom.🤔

It grows like acropora. so cool.

Like the good old days at the company Platinum facility in South Africa. We mined nickel in the Transvaal and sent it to Norway. The Norwegians refined it like your copper precess. They kept the nickel as payment for their electrcity and sent the sludge from the tanks back to us. We used fluorine chemistry to extract the Platinum group metgals from that sludge.

Christal man 🙌...thanks for your video

Good job.

Happy to see that kid is interested in dad's project

Looks like some exotic bud

Pretty neat!

Amazing! How did you keep the solution from evaporating?

congratulations! on the wee bairn!!

3 am and watch someone make tumors for fun

@ScranX3

6 жыл бұрын

This is how they make chicken nuggets

@epoc162

6 жыл бұрын

fvcker gonna fvck 220 am for me....

@shangrel110

6 жыл бұрын

fvcker gonna fvck copper buds

@sy-en

6 жыл бұрын

fvcker gonna fvck it's 3 am buddy

@ut000bs

6 жыл бұрын

Kyle, they aren't sticky, though. ;)

Thanks for the video, I'm not understanding what makes the current flow come from the + to deposit the crystals on the - when DC current is from the - to the +. if you use an air defuser like that of a small fish tank to agitate your solution with an increase in amps up to 1 amp would it not deposit more a lot sooner? Thanks again.

Very Nice!

Seriously though thank you those were beautiful that was very entertaining do you make art with them after

try using different concentrations of sulphiric acid. You'll see much more clear crystals, or shape change due to growth speed (only applying to clusters)

Have you ever tried putting ~walls (or anything) in the solution to direct the growth a bit ?

KFC (Kentucky Fried Copper) - extra Cu-rispy !! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@niogel

5 жыл бұрын

If this comment ☝️ does not end up with at least 1k likes....

@Soul_Alpha

5 жыл бұрын

This should be pinned.

@michelweienborn2828

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know why but that killed me

@thegrayinthefield8764

3 жыл бұрын

This... is perfect.

Beautiful

Was wondering if this has ever come across your mind to send one of your crystals to a wood spinner so that u can incase it in epoxy and shape it in to sphere would be cool if possible

So this is how popcorn chicken is made

@sourmash5715

6 жыл бұрын

copper bud.

@bernatrosello4375

5 жыл бұрын

Only the awesome popcorn chicken, oh yeah

@dorapreston9928

5 жыл бұрын

you should see his mac and cheese

Just wondering if this expands the amount of copper or if there is a purpose for making elements into crystals beyond that of just making them for the sake of making them? Are they meant for specimen collections?

Use "vasoline" to coat those areas of our wire you do not want to grow crystals on...reduce the growing area and you will increase your crystal size...especially if you also reduce the voltage down to a little bit under 1.0 volts.

+Puddin Interesting video. I suppose the copper crystals must tarnish over time?

HI Puddin- thanks for this video. where can i buy the electric voltage machine you have? I got a toy transformer from the goodwill that i was thinking of using but i am not sure if that is sufficient. let me know! thanks again.

This is very cool, man! Have you tried growing them in a vacuum and/or anaerobic environment? How does temperature affect crystallization (if at all?)

@Puddin

6 жыл бұрын

I've not had too much of a chance to test other growing environments due to how it takes to grow these.

The process reminds me of electroplating. I have heard of something called electroforming, can you show that?

Interesting video, but what are you supposed to do with the crystals once you have them?

How come quartz crystal isnt brittle like these crystals? What electrolyte and +electrode would you use, to make a crystal that isnt brittle? Great vid thanks!

That shit looks dank af!!!

Thanks. Then what are these crystals for? Any special purpose?

What is the solution you sprayed onto the crystals as you took them out of the cup? This is an awesome video. Thank you for sharing.

@smarphpharph5021

5 жыл бұрын

Just water

Instead of using a Dremmel on the dark ones, try painting it with a little acid flux paste, let it sit for 30-60 secs (more if needed), and then wash it off. I use this technique to polish up the exposed 10 gauge wires inside my box mods. I strip the insulation and use thick solid core to give a steampunk look (like copper tubing) to the box. Over time, they darken and dull, but the flux brightens them right up.

Woah! Sum snazzy as water squirter! What did you put in though? Just distilled water?

So if I make a big chamber and put the cathod in the center and the anidod around the outside, would that work really well?

Have you ever tried a larger container and chain linked anodes on 2 to 3 sides?

The cloudiness you saw after dissolving CuSO4 is not "impurities" - at least not all of it. Copper sulfate is known to partially hydrolyze into insoluble Cu(OH)2 in water. To prevent it add a little bit of sulfuric acid. If don't have it, HCl will suffice, too.

So awesome

Looks sort of like a coral. Can you put a varnish on them so they stay bright?

Can the crystals be preserved by setting into poured acrylic resin mould?

Work for a automotive front grill plating company and we would have giant nickel and copper crystal in the tank laying everywhere when tank was cleaned out.i didnt know it was crystalized back then.

What would happen if you crank up the current the last day or so? Would it coat the crystals with a stronger layer of fine copper?

Can you do this with nickel? Using nickel acetate for electrolyte?

Have you tried heat treating the crystals BEFORE removing from its base? This should nearly eliminate the brittle problem.

Hello sir! Thank you for the fantastic video!. I am curious, if you have a bar of brass or bronze, could you separate out the copper from the brass or bronze using this method? Leaving the other alloy as a sludge?

@toihin5500

2 жыл бұрын

I think it would be possible not sure tho

@TeslaFactory

Жыл бұрын

The tin/zinc from the alloy would likely dissolve in the sulphate environment unless you used a potentiostat 3 electrode cell arrangement to control the dissolution conditions

A couple small adjustments for those interested in doing this. 1: Use copper chloride instead of a sulfate or penta-hydrate! It's easy to make and will produce cleaner crystals much faster! It will also produce some obnoxious gas but not a lot. 2: Buy a platinum coated anode & cathode. They're surprisingly cheap, they won't dissolve as rapidly & they will yield larger crystals! Once you've made these adjustments, dial up the energy & you'll replicate these results in days!

@arancienne

5 жыл бұрын

Only use copper chloride if you want to knock yourself out with chlorine gas!

@sidharthnambiath3161

5 жыл бұрын

If you are using copper chloride it’s probably safer to do the electrolysis outside!

@atticspliffer

5 жыл бұрын

Back to WWII hahaha

@NightRunner417

5 жыл бұрын

@@atticspliffer Fuck the Geneva Convention, this is science!!

how much copper can i desolve using your coil method ? i finally made crystal using car battry acid and your coil method but. will it be better to concentrate barrty acid first? if i keep conecting fresh copper will it desolve forever or will the acid burn off eventually?

sir what is big bar other connector. @ copper bar or? and what is spar only water or?

Nice video

Would the crystals have grown bigger, faster if you had less wire base for them to form on?

Have you ever weighed the anode before and then way the anode and the crystals and the sediment to see if it all weighs out the same as before you ever started. if you get what I’m saying?...

Is it possible to heat up the crystals and anneal them so they're less brittle?

Nice. What would happen if you used a constant current driver - would it give better results or would the growth just grind to a halt because of the increasing surface area?

@silver_salvage_savage

2 жыл бұрын

Those power supplies can go from constant voltage or constant current. In my experience with growing silver crystal, constant current results in long, thin needle like spikes. Looks like superman's fortress of solitude

what is the purpose? What can you use them for? Is there a market for them?

"As you can hear, we have a newborn to attend to as well." * Continues to pick crystals *

@mikealman63tab

5 жыл бұрын

LOOOOOL A mad scientist and his long-suffering wife

@merkga

4 жыл бұрын

"Ah don't worry the wife will get to it... Eventually... Or it will just shut itself up, we'll see..... Ok now these crystals" 🤷😂😂😂

@heavens.sorrow

4 жыл бұрын

Mans got his priorities straight.

@james23a

3 жыл бұрын

Ahh crystal pickin. Best pickin this side of nose pickin.

Mmmmm popcorn chicken lol. That was really cool. How do u get other colours?

do thay make gold sulfate. and if you had a big anode of gold could you grow gold crystals?

If you set your power supply to constant current you might get a much more even growing of the crystals.

Cool Video man love it and i also liked it :) when you make video's be sure to cut out bits of the video that will help you have people watch the hole video instead of skipping loads like i did :) just abit of friendly advice pal

@supertubemind

6 жыл бұрын

Don't really want "holes" in the video! But you're right. ~22 minutes was rather tedious for a two minute video.

Congrats on the newborn

What can you do with the crystals?

I wonder how they perform as antennas. Wide bandwidth? Can you grow them while say, supplying a physical vibration frequency to the cathode as it grows? Also, you may get better results if you allow gravity to help you, e.g. placing the anode at the bottom of the container, whilst the cathode remains saturated at the top. I used to have some very old crystal chemistry growing books and was fascinated to learn that the trick to growing crystals is to find out what "feeding" system works best, while resonance and temperature, all the way down to which direction your "feeding" solvent rotated, (clockwise or counter clockwise), to the frequency of the light, to the shape and orientation of the electrodes. It is indeed not only a science but an art. Thank you for the education.

This is a great project to do with a kid. Make something cool while teaching them the science behind it.

I wonder if you can use copper acetate for this instead of copper sulphate.