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@sage211

4 ай бұрын

Ok

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

My farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨

@lorelaimorace-kk1xz

4 ай бұрын

SUUUUPE DUDE

@james3126

4 ай бұрын

first jk, i love u nile

@RNGclips_

4 ай бұрын

Hello

"Im not usually into jewellery" *Nile casually making himself grillz a few months ago*

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

My farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨

@kphaxx

4 ай бұрын

He's right tho. He's unusually into jewelry.

@helloolleh_dis

4 ай бұрын

@@kphaxx Exactly

@jacobramirez4894

4 ай бұрын

He’s right tho

@Asstolfo96

4 ай бұрын

In the grillz video, he mentioned that grillz was really the only jewellery he liked.

I love how the chemistry in this video isn’t complicated, it’s just Nile learning that casting metal is complex.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

4 ай бұрын

I'm totally down for this arc for Nile. Sometimes he doesn't need insane chemical recipes to make something exciting.

@iankrasnow5383

4 ай бұрын

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.

@SURok695

4 ай бұрын

​@@iankrasnow5383 but material science is partly chemistry. Especially when this is about alloys.

@tlawal7

4 ай бұрын

This video features a lot of manufacturing and material science, two things I did in mechanical engineering. I did very little chemistry in it

@theperfectionist1607

4 ай бұрын

@@SURok695 Mainly engineering though

Nile: "there was still one problem though, and that was how ugly it was" the bar: 😢

@Dabkiller59

Ай бұрын

i would be proud of it

@yvezzaid6027

Ай бұрын

bro was really roastin tf outta the hole-y bar the entire vid 🤣💀

@tarzant4445

Ай бұрын

What a waste of money looks like something you get in a kinder egg

@dustysnugget8636

Ай бұрын

@@tarzant4445Womp womp

@Idontknowwhattodolmao

Ай бұрын

29:22

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

@BennyLin718

24 күн бұрын

Yea metals u gotta grind and he didn’t grind it cuz sanding it didn’t work but grinding it would definitely work

@robinpipslayertekprofitsfa2644

20 күн бұрын

WooooW!! I didn't think about that 🤔 sheer simplicity...brilliant!!

@GameDesignerJDG

20 күн бұрын

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.

@PlastikGatz

20 күн бұрын

@@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

@Bruellhusten123

19 күн бұрын

Thats so obvious, he must have thought about that and just dumped the sandpaper into some acid to dissolve everything but the gold

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

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

My farts are better than NileRed’s farts.

@wudut_

4 ай бұрын

you have autism@@p-__

@VeeVeeLa

4 ай бұрын

That's interesting to hear! Do you think he would try again in the future?

@AstralPulse8

4 ай бұрын

@@p-__congrats? 🤨

@jj-iu6uc

4 ай бұрын

Will he make it

Nile: "I have no idea where all the gold went!" Also Nile: *sanding, grinding, hammering*

@24trumpets82

4 ай бұрын

💀

@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen

4 ай бұрын

It's hilarious watching how Nile's knowledge base is kinda a mile deep, and an inch wide :D

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

My farts are better than NileRed’s farts

@williamfowl8670

4 ай бұрын

He said in the video that he collected all the dust and dissolved it with the rest.

@Martin-zd8eb

4 ай бұрын

Smashing some chunks through the lab 😂

Imagine being a medieval king and some alchemist walks up to you, pulls out a bunch of bubbling, color changing liquids and transmutes your gold into purple gold jewelry. It would blow your mind.

@Sursion

27 күн бұрын

These people were given significant roles in the king's court, meanwhile people that could do math were executed for witchcraft lol.

@alvira4862

26 күн бұрын

Based, fuck math​@@Sursion

@MolotovDRNE

23 күн бұрын

"WITCHCRAFT!! GUARDS!! GUARDS!!" That's probably what the king would say

@TylerChamb

22 күн бұрын

@@Sursion What are you talking about? No they weren't. Nobody got executed for math, try to avoid just making random things up and stating them as historical facts.

@Sursion

22 күн бұрын

@@TylerChamb Lmfao who let this guy onto youtube?

I love how dedicated Nile is to making these videos like $5700 to $7200 on just one ingredient is crazy

@Shaquex

16 күн бұрын

Probably double because if you look at around 5:00 you can see the gold bars have different serial numbers

@Zenced

2 күн бұрын

Nile trying to not flexing how much money he spent on every videos (10k on average)

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!

@rusty9959

4 ай бұрын

Very interesting thanks for sharing

@thrahxvaug6430

4 ай бұрын

one man's plague alloy is another man's shiny finger trinket

@gloriouslumi

4 ай бұрын

Grats, I give you 100 likes, on this, Christmas Eve.

@Beanzops

4 ай бұрын

My gold is better than NileRed’s gold

@TimmyT1234

4 ай бұрын

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!

@Not_interestEd-

2 ай бұрын

Betting on new jewelry companies to start rising up and making more polished purple gold than what's currently available. The competition begins...

@robinstahlbergs

2 ай бұрын

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.

@wynoglia

2 ай бұрын

THATS WILD WHERE'S HIS CHEQUE???

@ximar0ckstrx

2 ай бұрын

This is so amazing ❤❤❤

@mspooner

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, another future sale here

As a retired manufacturer of alluvial gold extraction plants in Australia, I was dumbfounded at your experiment, and ecstatic at your result. Congratulations, you did extremely well.

Hi NileRed, Nice video. I have three, probably important, comments for you :o) I hope you will like it (at leat it may interest scientific peoples, enginers and chemistry educated peoples, or readers). 1°) About your gold amount disappearing; you are right gold when heated vaporizes and some is lost not only litteraly but effectively into fumes... so you are "totaly sane" and absolutely not crasy; your results show this effect quite obviously (and yes dramaticaly). Not many knows this but gold is a "noble" metal; and as such molecularly despite its weight and density; it ressembles by many aspects to mercury metal or noble gases; when heated; it sublimates partly thus long before melting point is reached some is lost in the air. 2°) Annealing at 600°C is one thing; but often in industial processed it is made several times in sequential mode; so heating, cooling, reheating, recooling, etc.; I'm quite sure that your pink-lilac colour will improve upon cycling more (not a single time (like what you did), but several times) and also by checking the form of the cyle (speed of heating, time of plateau, speed of cooling). 3°) The bubbling of Ar gas into the melt (or N2 gas - that is cheaper) a bit like what is done in chemistry with fluids to degas them is a good option; just like the ultrasonic (or vibrations like some cements, plaster, plastic for molding)... but Did you consider reducing the overal pressure; it also degas things more and faster; some use a depressurization chamber for cements, plaster or plastic molding; of course taking into account the volatility of some ingredients or solvents; here despite aluminium and gold are metals and melting point should remain almost the same; the oxidizibility of aluminium should be reduced in lower pressure; but volatility and loss of gold will be worse under reduced pressure than your 5% loss :o(. Kind regards PHZ (PHILOU Zrealone from the Science Madness forum)

@ouch9402

Ай бұрын

This needs to be in the top comments. Thanks for explaining!

@philouzlouis2042

28 күн бұрын

@@ouch9402 Thank you. Glad it catched your eyes and interest you.

@iloveAllah802

14 күн бұрын

I'm so glad I read all of that, it's so cool! Thank you for taking your time to share your knowledge with us!🌻🌻

@CRISIS_IS

13 күн бұрын

You're a very nice dude! Thank you for the information!

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.

@Devblivion

4 ай бұрын

To be fair bro has a 6 figure laboratory

@naterinosan6920

4 ай бұрын

@@Devblivion 🤣 You're not wrong

@tiki_trash

4 ай бұрын

Purple gold is ugly but...

@cybyrd9615

4 ай бұрын

He's a chemist doing material science lol

@robertnett9793

4 ай бұрын

@@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.

The beaker drop had me in shambles until I realized it was just a bamboozle

@jameseden9380

4 ай бұрын

Oh no....

@Wolfixal

4 ай бұрын

same lmfaoo

@theredvelvetyfox8814

4 ай бұрын

My heart sank when I saw that then I swore at Nile

@devinm.608

4 ай бұрын

I about had a heart attack lmao

@samuraichicken9248

4 ай бұрын

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.

What makes this ring particularly cooler than most is how genuine it is. The design and process was obviously based on techniques already used but to source it all yourself and go through the process as you did (imo) is what makes that ring so precious. fallowing your own ideals of what you feel made your product worth casting was a sight. the random mistakes that inspired the design and helped the process. truly one of a kind. thanks for sharing this yo!

The solid substance made of more gold than aluminum is truly lavender. If light reflects the thing, it is fuchsia. The jewel looks so beautiful! Even more beautiful without holes!

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

@jameskazd9951

4 ай бұрын

yeah i seen that and was like "oh my god WHAT?"

@pohkuangda6662

4 ай бұрын

MAMAMIA THE GOLD

@kinl0r

4 ай бұрын

@@pohkuangda6662I literally cackled when I read this

@markramrattan7206

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@SmolPotatowo

4 ай бұрын

Before he dropped the beaker I was thinking "Wow it would really suck if you dropped that..." Casual 8k CAD beaker

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.

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

My farts are better than NileRed’s farts.

@kitsunekaze93

4 ай бұрын

and now its public and non-proprietary, not requiring a patent!

@jakistam1000

4 ай бұрын

I'm guessing that he did extract it chemically...

@bluephreakr

4 ай бұрын

@@p-__ Scientifically impossible. Go away

@ViktorBengtsson

4 ай бұрын

​@@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.

Jewelry companies hate this man, he's showing us the secrets and the methods so we don't gotta pay for overpriced rocks

The fact you just keep going and never gave up, for such a simple yet satisfying outcome, I absolutely love it

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 😅

@firegodessreiko

2 ай бұрын

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~

@bonuscomment2492

2 ай бұрын

That’s perfect 😂

@markd.s.8625

2 ай бұрын

i thought the angel's share was the part lost during aging? ​@@firegodessreiko

@Element0145

2 ай бұрын

Pretty sure he didn’t add the stuff he sanded away , seems about right for the amount lost

@JSiuDev

2 ай бұрын

@@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'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.

@LOLOLOL69220

3 ай бұрын

553 Likes And No Replies Let Me Fix That

@mixikitti

3 ай бұрын

@LOLOLOL69220 i already know you're a bot

@Calophon

3 ай бұрын

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.

@zperdek

3 ай бұрын

​@@CalophonMechanoChemistry?

@highdefinition450

3 ай бұрын

this must be so satisfying for someone in the know lmao

I can't even imagine how happy excited and proud you must have felt during this process but at the same time devastated, hopeless, sad, confused, etc. Congratulationssssssssssssssss

That beaker drop was such a cool joke. My jaw dropped temporarily.

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.

@hugoremmen

4 ай бұрын

dude, this exactly hahahaha i flipped out

@MackenzieNerdyEMT

4 ай бұрын

I pictured dropping or spilling it as well! It definitely put me on edge haha.

@OmniversalInsect

4 ай бұрын

He did the same thing with bromine lol

@josevera5094

4 ай бұрын

I was expecting the prank. Still gave me a heart attack

@ayuvell4790

4 ай бұрын

That was such an easy joke, considering he already did it once)

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.

@dan4653

4 ай бұрын

It's about learning something, not having the thing you learned to make. I have a shop full of them too! Lol

@karabenomar

4 ай бұрын

But look, it's purple!

@seelmodge7881

4 ай бұрын

that's how sciene works

@_DREBBEL_

4 ай бұрын

Anything for the content 😂

@jimmysyar889

4 ай бұрын

tbf the $8000 he spend will be still worth $8000 if he ever wants to sell it again

I’m watching this as a foundry man (you are a reason I chose to do this) and I 100% think I could have helped you on this project and saved you from a lot of pain 😅

Blue gold would be so cool if it were ever made

@IloveJellow

6 күн бұрын

Gold-indium and its worse than making purple gold so good luck! but its also very very brittle too.

I feel like this man single-handedly expanded the purple gold community from almost nothing to something in the eyes of the people

@blizzard_the_seal9863

4 ай бұрын

frrr

@Juicy.jett24

4 ай бұрын

A hundred percent

@AkaraEtteh

4 ай бұрын

Smart marketing 👀😅

@ArcticAirUltraPro

4 ай бұрын

He just filled the entire Wikipedia page single handedly,

@DaniGirl6

4 ай бұрын

The patent US6929776B1 looks to have expired in 2020. Maybe there will be more purple gold jewelry coming around using this method.

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.

@Paula_Limberg

4 ай бұрын

Dude, that is amazing! Thanks for sharing!

@tsraikage

4 ай бұрын

didn't know this story. so cool

@Alondro77

4 ай бұрын

I knew that story from wayyyyy back in chemistry lab when we were playing with strong mineral acids.

@_DREBBEL_

4 ай бұрын

Science wins again! Love it.

@Quroe_

4 ай бұрын

This is an amazing story. I think this would have been cool to hear in the video.

My uni major was chemistry (53 years ago) and we worked with different solutions. At one point, I had to salt out gold from a liquids as part of my final exam. They were extremely alert when we worked with precious metals.

I always watch your videos on Facebook and love them. I never knew you had a KZread channel. I am a huge fan of precious metals, and saw TraxNYC's purple gold Jesus pendant and him shouting you out in the comments. I'm glad to now be a member of the channel. When my finances are better, I will become a patron. Much love from Chile.

@danielfinley-pesti6661

Ай бұрын

yes i just saw trax’s jesus piece and had to come back to look at nigels quality 😂

@SCARREDENT

Ай бұрын

@@danielfinley-pesti6661 and Nigels ring is far superior. 💯

I think you've advanced the field of purple gold metallurgy by several years

@raghudurina2354

4 ай бұрын

Or at least the information available on the public domain.

@the_reapingcat

4 ай бұрын

*Pold

@paracame8162

4 ай бұрын

​@@raghudurina2354 which will advance the field since this will allow more people to try different things

@Freddy_Fazbear_and_Witherred

4 ай бұрын

​@@the_reapingcatwhat pold?

@Zyra-Not-The-LOL-One

4 ай бұрын

@@Freddy_Fazbear_and_Witherred purple + gold = pold

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!

@yanuk818

4 ай бұрын

Lee Hwa's not going to be happy 😂

@SkyEcho751

4 ай бұрын

"Purple gold is super difficult to work with" meanwhile he's making a whole ring of this stuff.

@danielfinley-pesti6661

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@SkyEcho751lee hwa probably trying to scare away the competition

@Deboned_butter

4 ай бұрын

@@yanuk818They’re gonna be very exited. Millions of people now know that purple gold jewelry exists.

@josephd.5524

4 ай бұрын

Lee Hwa Jewellery may be putting a hit out on him.

I imagine the gold that was lost was impossibly stuck in the sandpaper. 🤷‍♂

I stumbled upon this on You Tube. Young man you are a very bight spark ! Your laboratory is well stocked & supplied. Well done, very informative & highly educational presentation. You presented information concisely & accurately , the chemistry is faultless & suburb . Thank you for sharing in the Cosmos. Keep up your continued scientific interests. The World needs more of your mould type .❤🎉

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.

@Doping1234

4 ай бұрын

Plus: Stuff disclosed actually works as described. Not all heroes wear capes, some sell jewelry.

@bunnyben5607

4 ай бұрын

He probably payed a lot of money for the patent

@joshuahancock2079

4 ай бұрын

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.

@CrimsonA1

4 ай бұрын

Imagine making this stuff 1000 or so years ago. You'd be some kind of wizard/witch!

@Doping1234

4 ай бұрын

@@CrimsonA1 given the technology back then and the challenges involved I'd agree with the town folks ;)

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?

@Wireball

4 ай бұрын

Burn the sandpaper! Burn it, I say! (I suspect it's in the crevices)

@SvdW

4 ай бұрын

I had exactly the same thought ​@Wireball The sandpaper had increased his value with those gold between de crevices 😂

@blindfsh6093

4 ай бұрын

​@@Wireballthis was my guess too. Fun fact: gold purifying plants burn disposable bodysuits and air filters for extra gold recovery

@wronger0123

4 ай бұрын

It can hide in places you might not expect

@Lanka0Kera

4 ай бұрын

@@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...

It is a very beautiful color. More subtle and toned down than natural gold, a color that never struck me, yet as nice as white & rose gold. Awesome vid.

seems like a good time to have found your channel. dope videos man. thanks for droppin em.

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.

@eigentensor

4 ай бұрын

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, ...

@davehowell3209

4 ай бұрын

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

@redryder3721

4 ай бұрын

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.

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

My farts are better than NileRed’s farts

@DannyDingus

4 ай бұрын

Same thoughts here.

As a jeweler myself, I believe NileRed has just had a breakthrough in the industry. If it is as brittle as described and made a much cheaper and simpler set up. We should be seeing this much more often in the future as craftsmen will be treating it more like a gemstone than a metal.

@Johnne009

4 ай бұрын

There are companies in Singapore selling, the process is patented

@brunopanizzi

4 ай бұрын

Did jewelers just stop trying to make purple gold and then a random chemist figured it out for a KZread video?

@benjabby

4 ай бұрын

I really hope that happens

@radry100

4 ай бұрын

It's patented, so no, we're not gonna see it anytime soon. Also it's super ugly and looks artificial.

@synaesthesia888

4 ай бұрын

​@@radry100garbage opinion on your part, i think it look great!

I love the nilered video where he makes smurf turds for 40 minutes and then makes purple gold In all seriousness though i really enjoy watching him learn and try near-impossible tasks

Brother salute to your resolute dedication! I really take interest in your work and never ever forward any part as it's the details that make it more interesting especially the chemistry! Love

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.

@Notfiveo0

4 ай бұрын

I would have just used 24k casting grain like most sane jewelers would do.

@ning385

4 ай бұрын

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.

@buggerlugz6753

4 ай бұрын

spraying the gold purple and lacquering it would be a damn sight easier.

@mikstockden6525

4 ай бұрын

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.

@thierryf67

4 ай бұрын

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".

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.

@breadloafbrad

4 ай бұрын

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

@santiagoo.8958

4 ай бұрын

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.

@Sugarman96

4 ай бұрын

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.

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

My farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨

@zaappaa

4 ай бұрын

@@p-__me too💭😫

Imagine a random guy melted gold and put purple coloring in there and there it is. Perfect purple gold.

my favourite part about this video is him learning both that casting metal is hard and lighting can make things look different colours

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!

@SHRUGGiExyz

4 ай бұрын

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!

@cyborglion4179

4 ай бұрын

Good luck. Would love to see results

@danielknisell7018

4 ай бұрын

Rad. Artisans at work. Best of luck.

@williamsquires3070

4 ай бұрын

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. 😢

@thekoifishcoyote8762

4 ай бұрын

Tell us what you figure out. I'm not a jewelsmith but I love seeing people talk about things they love

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.

@CUBETechie

3 ай бұрын

Green Gold exist too😮

@CUBETechie

3 ай бұрын

75% of gold, 15% of silver, 6% of copper and 4% of cadmium. This alloy is of dark green color.

@naftyloescher

3 ай бұрын

@@CUBETechiebut it's dangerous to wear cause of the cadmium right?

@_Yuki.v.

3 ай бұрын

@@naftyloescher I believe so, since it's toxic

@mc_fruchtzwerg

3 ай бұрын

​@@_Yuki.v. well in jewelry production and gem stone treatment are multible toxic and even radioactive means used. the manufactures use unharmful amounts

Incredibly interesting! Metallurgy is a complete mystery to me. This was fascinating. Thanks!

Really cool video. You should season your crucibles with borax and also sprinkle in borax powder when melting it helps stop oxidization.

@henry4849

8 күн бұрын

he says explicitly in the video that he can't use borax because it would react with the aluminium

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.

@kengamingd2438

4 ай бұрын

May even help future companies that want to try and make this stuff. This video was very impressive.

@haydenanimations5440

4 ай бұрын

I never knew elixir was real irl

@Sydd787

4 ай бұрын

He's the local chem wizard of YT. This is what youtube was made for. 💙

@webaazul2500

4 ай бұрын

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

As a chemist who is way older than you, I am floored by what you accomplished.

@chrisprysok7634

3 ай бұрын

Having KZread money to piss away on sweet equipment can't hurt.

@arielpuma4512

3 ай бұрын

Tell more

@ThoughtsOfTheMindCo

3 ай бұрын

And continuing like my heart wasn’t beating out of my chest.

@maxballdepth6055

3 ай бұрын

@@chrisprysok7634 he is still way smarter than you bud

@blehh_mae

3 ай бұрын

@@maxballdepth6055 i dont think they meant that in a rude way just a vulgar term

It is impressive how much hard work you have put into making this video. Well done! The purple sunset is very beautiful

The dedication to this is amazing

The missing gold is likely caught between the grains of the sandpaper you used. If you carefully burn the sandpaper, collect the dust, and then extract the gold, you'll likely get it back. At least, that'd be my guess.

@clepy985

4 ай бұрын

the way some people think is amazing, this is entirely possible, i freaked out at the mention of him sanding it knowing some of the gold might have been wasted from it 😭

@Lucas-po6mn

4 ай бұрын

there's definitely some in the sand paper, but its very likely some particles went airborn from, very likely inhaled some of it too, so he won't get all of it back

@paulsernine5302

4 ай бұрын

@@Lucas-po6mn He can try to extract his lungs and make it burn to get all the gold he inhaled

@user-wj9jm1ox8i

4 ай бұрын

@@paulsernine5302🤣

@jonprg160

4 ай бұрын

It's Definitely in the sandpaper and dust created.

NileRed is the definition of "learning from your mistakes"

@blackkitty148

3 ай бұрын

Science as a whole is just a process of learning from past mistakes too

@UltraCenterHQ

3 ай бұрын

So just people who create stuff in general

@christian9540

3 ай бұрын

@@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.

@blackkitty148

3 ай бұрын

@@christian9540 you're right. That was a great approach.

@bearfightsninja

3 ай бұрын

Beautiful narration and video. 😊

Bravo buddy! Awesome work!

38:04 probably what was left in the sandpapers. The ring is amazing, congratulations sir.

recap: 81 wt % GOLD 19% wt % ALUMINUM - Prepare an inert gas (such as argon) and a melting station such as a furnace with a bubbling-capable apparatus made out of fused quartz (Alumina could be an alternative but must be tested) - Make sure the gas if flowing towards the melting chamber (no bubbling needed yet) and it has removed as much oxigen/water as possible - Melt the gold, the finer the particles the easier to measure and to melt too, precision is a MUST - Throw the aluminum pieces on top of the gold puddle to allow easy melting and mixing with the gold - Let it melt completelly, the hotter the easier to mix, but be careful because hot aluminum is VIOLENT. mix with graphite rod if possible, but make sure it's properly mixed. - Proceed to the degassing phase, lower the bubbling apparatus and let it degas for AT LEAST 20 minutes, the bubles MUST be at a constant and decent rate. (ultrasonic vibrations may be used instead or in a combination, but the results must be tested still) - Heat up a mold as much as humanly possible to avoid the alloy to freeze too quickly. - pour the alloy into the mold and let it cool down slowly until room temperature. (- at this point you can finish the shaping process, cutting the excess metal. remember that this alloy is not really workable.) - Sand it and polish - Anneal at 600ºC for about 20-30 mins - Fall in love with the finished product. thank you Nile for going through such an annoying process and explain us the process you followed so well. i'm on my quest to make a unique ring to propose to my girlfriend (but being poor sucks a lot) and my only desire is to home made it (to make it even more special) my idea is to accompany it with some artificial sapphire or ruby too (yeah, dreaming too high) i'll make sure to show up on the patreon as a way to thank you.

@eggynub1096

4 ай бұрын

Pin this.

@mikeoxmall69420

4 ай бұрын

Bro posted the recipe 💀

@adithyavsr1995

4 ай бұрын

Good luck with your proposal dude :)

@joeljustin

4 ай бұрын

@@mikeoxmall69420 Let him cook

I truly believe that purple gold will become much more popular in jewelry after this video.

@arran4285

4 ай бұрын

From people wanting it, From people finding out how to make it or both?

@David-clips

4 ай бұрын

@@arran4285 a bit of both.

@KTFRabbit

4 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing. I really want the heart-shaped earrings they sold on the site.

@impostor440

4 ай бұрын

yes

@tienglongmy

4 ай бұрын

Or use it to hide your stash

Amazing journey! Thank you, I imagine it would be real fun to try this myself.

This is my favorite kind of project and where my mind really shines, I can ALWAYS find a solution with enough tinkering and they are always shockingly simplistic. Less is ALWAYS more! Remember this

My immediate first thought of seeing a beaker full of dissolved gold is "What happens if he drops and breaks it", and without missing a beat Nile trolls the viewer with exactly that lmfao. Mindreading content creator.

@-.Kaitty.-

4 ай бұрын

I had a heart attack for him in that moment 😭

@eidrag

4 ай бұрын

me, 2 years ago when he made that short video.

@riverriver5345

4 ай бұрын

My heart dropped when that happened, then had to laugh at myself once I realized

@MJ-pk1cl

4 ай бұрын

hurt*

@marc-ju2vk

4 ай бұрын

and he still has that metal block on the floor

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

@fromthefire4176

4 ай бұрын

Woah what’s this about strontium? Lol

@SkyRimeheart

4 ай бұрын

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!

@nobodi12

4 ай бұрын

hope nile sees this

@remigiuszbudak7017

4 ай бұрын

O hello fellow foundry man. I am currently studying to work in a foundry

@TobeWilsonNetwork

4 ай бұрын

@@fromthefire4176yeah would love a follow up on that Strontium business.

I really like the fact that for the big part of this video you are surprised by the outcomes same as we are all there

You are just amazing, the very knowledgeable and competent person making amazing work. God bless this channel.

The fact that Nile wanted something, found out he couldn't buy it, and then made it is so accurate to this channel

@snyder_fine_art

4 ай бұрын

If he bought it, there's no video, so no sh*t

@chaotickreg7024

4 ай бұрын

​@@snyder_fine_artShut up.

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

my farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨

@mecchamio

4 ай бұрын

@@snyder_fine_art 🤓

@brookspact6069

4 ай бұрын

​@@p-__ this calls for a sniff test, I shall be the judge

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.

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

my farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨

@protek86

4 ай бұрын

@@p-__ he can chemically synthesize farts (video idea)

@LazySpaceRaptor

4 ай бұрын

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

@brianreddeman951

4 ай бұрын

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.😊

@JaxDax

4 ай бұрын

Wow that sounds so cool! Can I intern for you guys lol 😂

Nothing alse to say but congrats! Huge effort went into this, and you managed to pretty much perfect a project nobody else could imagine doing!

Well done, you just like a smart professor and love your work which shown in this video.

this isn't just a video of somebody making a ring out of purple gold, it's an entire story on the issues and even teaches us a lesson about crafting metals, to be resilient and keep trying

@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017

3 ай бұрын

I wonder what the addition of other metals to the mixture would do to the properties and color of the final product.

@Filip10101

3 ай бұрын

Or get lucky like the guy who accidentally made Nitinol by mixing Nickel and Titanium, bending it and leaving it under a heat lamp by accident. When he came back, he found out it bent back to the original form and the first shape memory allow was made :)

@hydroxide5507

3 ай бұрын

ywnbaw

@cooldude8697

3 ай бұрын

WHY DID THIS GET 800 LIKES IN UNDER 6 DAYS WTH

@meliaa4061

3 ай бұрын

Common trans pfp W

The fact that he could be a chemist, carpenter, alchemist ( because he can make anything from the most weirdest things) and now a jewlery maker makes me think that this guy is a more multiple-job guy than Johnny Sins

@Dante_Fr

4 ай бұрын

Lmao 🤣🤣🤣

@pollianapavloski7911

4 ай бұрын

He is almost a Barbie

@ItsTheSpecialistLIVE

4 ай бұрын

@@pollianapavloski7911oml youre right

@loodymaster

4 ай бұрын

he is who johnny sins acts to be

@Sonic.exe_uwu666

4 ай бұрын

​@@pollianapavloski7911OH GOD UR RIGHT

45:40 yeah this is why jewellers usually use a long thin strip of gold, bend it around a ring sizer, cut it to size and solder together the edges

man this is so nice to see dude, enjoy your sweet new ring

Most of your missing gold is probably on the sanding paper sheets! Great work! Looks amazing!

@rickhunter1614

4 ай бұрын

This was exactly my thought too. I would almost guarantee this was where a portion of the missing gold wound up. :)

@alfievergano155

4 ай бұрын

YUP @@rickhunter1614

@AscendtionArc

4 ай бұрын

Indeed.

@bobbygetsbanned6049

4 ай бұрын

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.

@IronNinjaFish

4 ай бұрын

my thoughts exactly

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.

@hongry-life

4 ай бұрын

And every time the stuff on the spatula.

@supernenechi

4 ай бұрын

Bruh, don't you think that he probably just collected all of that?? Come on, what do you think?

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

My farts are better than NileRed’s farts.

@paula_irl

4 ай бұрын

he said he collected it. that is why he was doing it by hand

@caveofskarzs1544

4 ай бұрын

​@@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.

Wow it's brilliant job! I never thought, being an mechanotronic engineer, that I will watch something like this with such a satisfactory level! 😮 It's amazing. You're the Best! 🎉

Watched the entire thing without skipping... that ring looks fantastic around your finger..👏🏼

I THOUGHT THE GOLD WAS GONE FOREVER OMFG NEVER AGAIN 7:57

@IloveRumania

4 ай бұрын

NileRed shorts be like:

@lidudley3000

4 ай бұрын

This killed me😭

2:06 “But for some reason, I really felt that I can do it” *50 minutes remaining* Nile, you’ve done it again

@alonzothompson8541

4 ай бұрын

I felt this in my adhd

Probably one of the coolest videos I've seen in years, KZread algo wins ago! Thanks for the video :D

congratz! looks so sweet.

There's no way that this doesn't spark a whole bunch of people to start companies making solid purple gold jewelry.

@Slangs

3 ай бұрын

He probably single handedly brought up gold prices whenever some companies launch and start to get some popularity

@martyjehovah

3 ай бұрын

Lucky for all those people the patent expired fairly recently. That's the main downside of a patent like this one, they have historically kept prices inflated and stopped innovation by artificially limiting competition. The upside of patents now that we have the internet is they basically only exist to be used as "how to" guides for innovators in nations that don't give a crap about western anti-intellectual laws that exist solely for the benefit of the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

@pinecrustjuise

3 ай бұрын

its possible that it still isnt viable to make them as Nile didn't properly strength test it and has no idea if it can even handle being dropped.

@zichithefox4781

3 ай бұрын

Considering it hasn't already, and the tedium of making it, I think only a couple ballsy businesses are going to do it. I could be wrong though and 2024 will see a spike in purple gold jewelry, which I'd be perfectly fine with.

@jesuiscool7

3 ай бұрын

@@pinecrustjuise Well... Glass rings are quiet brittle and they are there from quiet some time, so I don't think the strenght will be a problem. It will not be an item for daily use, that's all

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!

@GuyWithAnAmazingHat

4 ай бұрын

Yea this is so normal here that I was surprised to hear that it only exists in SG.

@everope

4 ай бұрын

It's not a single metal, it's an alloy

@adeemuff

4 ай бұрын

oh I love your nickname so much! I just rewatched it two months ago. I wish they'd release more...

@usagikinomoto_sakura

4 ай бұрын

@@adeemuff did you watch the latest card captor sakura clear card season?

@usagikinomoto_sakura

4 ай бұрын

@@everope aye, you know what I mean 🙂

U have my Respect dude, keep the good work 👍

Excellent work Sir.

My mom is a jewelry lover, specifically gold jewelry, and she was absolutely fascinated at the thought of purple gold. She told me that you should make chocolate gold and green gold next, since she can’t find it online anymore. 😂

@watergoddesskasey

4 ай бұрын

There is green gold, I have a green gold band.

@orientof

4 ай бұрын

Blue gold?

@onyhow

4 ай бұрын

@@orientof So plutonium?

@thisisnotthechannelyourelo407

4 ай бұрын

the chocolate gold is just chocolate wrapped in foil ;)

@donwald3436

4 ай бұрын

green gold is corroded copper lol.

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.

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

My farts are more purple than NileRed’s farts 💨

@HappyGick

4 ай бұрын

And casting. Some of the gold stuck to the crucible, unless Nile managed to get it out.

@nemoclavon566

4 ай бұрын

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.

ring reflects itself inside itso it looks more purple, more contrast,.. beautiful!.. well done!.. genius!.. 💕

Thanks for sharing. It took me back to my jewelry days. I remember I had a similar issue and we used a controlled environment I believe we used ammonium in some way

This man's dedication to this project was pure purple gold.

@p-__

4 ай бұрын

my farts are better than NileRed’s farts 💨

@Trainspotter-

4 ай бұрын

I love this comment

@bananagod.

4 ай бұрын

Well he didn't make pure purple gold

@moncang3265

4 ай бұрын

@@bananagod. 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

@bananagod.

4 ай бұрын

@@moncang3265 that isn't pure. It's only that but it's not pure.

Never in my life have I made it through 53 minutes of chemistry, but this channel is gold… pure purple gold

@zacharysmith8397

3 ай бұрын

Wait til you see him turn gloves into grape soda

@ACookie3994

3 ай бұрын

Ummmmmmhhh actshually pure purple gold doesnt exist since its alloy🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

You should be so proud of yourself all your hard work paid off

This is such an interesting video, great stuff mate

If you mix Silver, Copper and Zinc with Gold, you can make Green Gold. Great vid, really informative!

@donnakawana

4 ай бұрын

The gold will evaporate with the heat an just processing... Bits poured off in liquid. It's easier than you think to lose gold... No matter amazing work

@coldstub

4 ай бұрын

Blackadder 2 anyone?

@mattmarzula

4 ай бұрын

​@@donnakawanaEvaporate? At what, 1000° C? Gold is one of the most recoverable elements in the universe as it is less reactive than most other metals and dense.

@technobladeneverdies5318

4 ай бұрын

wait are you actually serious though?🤔🤔

@whenthingsfly4283

4 ай бұрын

​@@donnakawanahe lost the gold from sanding most likely... Unless he processed the sanding paper and collected literally all of the purple gold from there, you're going to get some losses

NileRed is the chemistry equivalent of a dad building a dresser from scratch because he couldn’t find the perfect one.

@ares395

4 ай бұрын

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.

@1pcfred

4 ай бұрын

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.

@flightsnotfeelings5867

4 ай бұрын

@@1pcfredmy husband does the exact same thing. He hated the way our tv looked on our built in shelves so he completely redesigned it.

@bellablue5285

4 ай бұрын

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.

@1pcfred

4 ай бұрын

@@flightsnotfeelings5867 sometimes you have to go custom.

You're amazing! The epitome of "if at first you don't succeed, try and try again!" Inspiring!