By popular demand, this is a combination of both parts of the Making Purple Gold reaction videos

@lordyaioshen3005

2 ай бұрын

Check out swimming or diving in chrenobyl

@davidkaye8712

2 ай бұрын

C'mon Tyler video of you in your garage making gold from in a homemade reactor :)

@Rusty-METAL-J

2 ай бұрын

I'm sorry about your dad, Tyler.

@FerociousMoOoO

2 ай бұрын

Yes, vindication! I was just saying the other day that the comma for a decimal point thing is confusing.

@Infinity2219

Ай бұрын

Nhailread can make you look stupid against your PhD thinking you know better

mentioning nilered and the manhattan project in the same sentence is dangerous. For years, i've been sure he's one bad day away from a villain arc, except instead of john wick it's war crimes. He's simply too powerful.

@_BangDroid_

2 ай бұрын

Nah he's was bad parent(s) away from villainry, it seems we're safe.

@XxDramaticBatu

2 ай бұрын

He gonna turn into Nile Green soon if the government doesn't let him get the required chemicals, 💀

@NothingXemnas

2 ай бұрын

​@@_BangDroid_ Exactly. He is very curious, but also quite cautious and skeptical about a lot of things. He has done many interviews and he really is just passionate about his specialty, chemistry, and he like to show what intrigues him, making an unusual but inoffensive arts out of his craft. He never speaks about harm or violence in anyway besides hurting himself in unusual ways.

@ranid0072

Ай бұрын

Backyard scientist and styropyro : "🤫 He doesn't know!"

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252

Ай бұрын

I’ve often thought that with a team of science KZreadrs and a couple hundred thousand dollars you could make a nuclear weapon. The “chemex” enrichment procedure for fissile uranium would be the way to go.

Former jeweler/caster; the other reason you preheat the molds is if there is ANY moisture when that molten metal hits it, it could very well be released as steam and blow through the metal making a small “explosion” of molten metal from the pressure.

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252

Ай бұрын

Especially dangerous with aluminum because it’s so reactive when hot that small particles will burst into flames in that situation.

@gigaslave

Ай бұрын

I've seen horror story videos of metal recycling furnaces where the supplier was lazy about drying their scrap before putting it in to melt down and there was some seriously terrifying flash boil explosions.

@Ashley-lz9jh

25 күн бұрын

Doesn’t water expand 1000x when it converts to heat? I’ve seen some safety videos of steel smelters with moisture in them. It’s terrifying

@sharxbyte

3 күн бұрын

Friend of mine used to work at ALCOA(sp?) and one of the smaller (still very large) crucibles they used had some water in it. the woman casting it had molten aluminum blast up under her face shield and over her head. multiple reconstructive surgeries required but she wasn't blinded or killed so I'd consider that lucky.

@chemistryofquestionablequa6252

3 күн бұрын

@@sharxbyte a friend of mine works at an aluminum foundry and he regularly sends me videos of explosions. I guess Eastern Europe doesn't have the same safety standards as North America.

By far one of my most favorite videos from NileRed. I absolutely love the audacity to just go "fine, I'll do it myself" with this one

58:54 He did NOT use borax. He talked about why it would be used, but it can’t be used on this process, since it mixes with aluminum.

"You probably shouldn't use a nuclear reactor for large scale alchemy" Fine, I'll continue working on my desktop-scale particle accelerator /j

@Aaa-vp6ug

17 күн бұрын

Same here /notjoking ;)

When Germany invaded Denmark in 1940, de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from taking them. After the war, he precipitated the gold out of the acid, and the Nobel Society recast Franck and von Laue’s awards from the original gold. With his color issues, I'm willing to bet that it's all an issue with crystal phases. That would explain why annealing it changed the color. Also, his hydrogen problem very well may be why others claimed that the alloy was so brittle, as hydrogen is a royal pain in the ass in causing embrittlement of metals (although, that's usually over time as the hydrogen penetrates the metal).

@whatevernamegoeshere3644

18 күн бұрын

Usually over time, but when it comes to welding with cellulose based fluxes, it's instant and royally annoying lol

Gold is very unusual as far as heavy metals go, in that it's not toxic at all, because it's chemically almost completely inert.

I think it's common in all the Scandinavian, and probably some European countries, to use the comma as a decimal point. That said I have started more or less using just a period as it makes working with computers a lot easier

@aBoogivogi

2 ай бұрын

PS: We don't count digits in the way you describe. If we need to separate the thousands we just add a space or write that numbers are in thousands, millions etc

@vector_____

2 ай бұрын

Same here in the Netherlands, comma for the decimal, period for thousands separation

@JamesPerkins

2 ай бұрын

The generic name for the separator between units and tenths is radix. In many localities a comma is used, but in North America a period aka decimal point is commonly used. Methods for denoting the thousands, millions and so on include comma (in places decimal point is used for radix), space, or apostrophe (the C++ language uses the latter, and it uses decimal point for radix).

@LaserFur

2 ай бұрын

and one standard I read said that spaces should be the 1000's separator.

@jhosioja

Ай бұрын

As I recall, it's a UK - France difference in style, probably a deliberate thing to be contrarian, and the bulk of continental europe went with the comma as decimal separator, and the former British empire dependencies with the the point. I do not know which one settled on one and which one went the other way just to be a dick, and I don't really care, I'm not from either.

4:08 yeah, the reason he wasnt able to get info for the gold, is because google search proceess has gotten so bad you have to go in past several pages to actually see the things you want to see since the first couple of pages are biased or advertisements

You genuinely clear up so many misconceptions about nuclear power in a world that (for the most part) doesn’t understand it. You inspire me to work in the nuclear power industry.

8:42 comma as a decimal separator is more of a European standard.

@mrkoala2824

16 күн бұрын

I think this also applies to all of South America. From Brazil, I had never seen anybody apply periods to decimal separations prior to learning english.

@JohnDoe-gn3rg

15 күн бұрын

⁠@@mrkoala2824 how can you tell the difference between 100.000 and 100,000 for example? Seems like some dangerous miscommunication could happen, especially in chemistry.

@jimmykrochmalska3501

14 күн бұрын

@@JohnDoe-gn3rg I don't think 100,000 would be used, since if it needed to be that precise, it would more likely be something like 100,0001. So, it could just be rounded to 100, which doesn't make a lot of sense. Same way 100.000 would more likely be interpreted as 100000 instead of 100, and 100,000 is IMO (999,99 ÷ 10)% interpreted as 100000 (again, 100.000132 would become 100 and 100,000132 would become 100 and 100,000 would become 100000)

@Manuelslayor

12 күн бұрын

​@jimmykrochmalska3501 Nope, i would identify them all as 100. I would never even consider that somone could mean anything else than denouncing a decimal as the standard to make large numbers easyer to read is 100'000 which makes things very clear. No mistaking 100'000,00001.

@jimmykrochmalska3501

9 күн бұрын

@@Manuelslayor If I'm not mistaken, ['] is used in switzerland specifically, Because in most of europe we use [,] in most of the US they use [.] and in switzerland, they use ['] (At least I think. Correct me if I'm wrong, I have also never really seen the use of ['] before.)

37:54 to explain that sanding segment the most likely answer is oxidation. When he scrubbed the top layer off the heat from the rubbing immediately caused the next layer to oxidize again leaving behind that silverly aluminum oxide

It's because purple gold is an intermetallic compound rather than an alloy. A mixture of 75% gold with 25% copper makes an 18k red gold that also can also have brittleness problems. If it is repeatedly heated to annealing or soldering temperature and allowed to air cool it develops intermetallics that build up, dramatically reducing the ductility and malleability of the alloy. So for an 18k red gold it either must be quenched in water or alcohol above 700°F or mixed with a couple percent silver to eliminate this tendency to develop brittle intermetallics.

16:10 actually when they are panning they are looking for little gold nuggets and flakes among the gravel, sand and clay. the gold they are looking for is shiny rather than the dull microscopic dust we are looking at here...

@Ashley-lz9jh

24 күн бұрын

Yep!! Where I live there’s boatloads of pyrite crystals in the sediment and I always see the sparkle and get excited. When pyrite is in cubes, I never understood how anyone could mistake it for gold. But panning? It looks identical. I’m sure that’s where the name fools gold comes from

The gold bar was from Switzerland, so it makes sense they used decimal comma - almost entire Europe, South America and half of Africa is using decimal comma instead of decimal point. Separators for 3 digits vary from country to country but usually it's apostrophe or space.

@fastertove

2 ай бұрын

I agree that apostrophes works fine in practice, but is not particular common and it's not something countries should actively adopt as a standard. A space (more precisely a "thin space") is preferable, and it should like other digits separators only be used if really needed. India uses a rather interesting system. The notation for separation is comma, but they don't merely separate every 3 digits, but a combination of 2 and 3. Again, not something other countries should adopt :)

@proosee

2 ай бұрын

@@fastertove I wasn't giving my opinion on apostrophes and stuff, I just stated the fact, that decimal comma is quite common around the world and thus, it's not uncommon to use different than comma ways to to group digits.

@fastertove

2 ай бұрын

@@proosee I agree, other than apostrophes being a common practice.

Well, you're close to the use of gold in terms of "keeping things still", gold is actually biologically inert, meaning it doesn't react with anything like stomach acid, blood cells, anything that the body might do to cause things to move around or destroy it. So it allows whatever is put in there, to simply stay there, so long as nothing external causes it to shake loose or whatever.

I loved the 1st purple bar ingot. Those holes gave it character.

Comma as a decimal is relatively common in the EU, but they’d understand what you mean if you use a decimal in its place. They really only use commas when referring to prices though. In universities or other settings, they’ll typically use decimals.

"Using nuclear reactors for large scale alchemy." You heard it here first folks

I went to a museum not long ago, where they had an exhibition about currency and they had a 12.5kg goldbar in a montre, which you could try and lift if you wanted. I tried to lift it and all I can say is that it felt like something that weighed around 12.5kg, I'm not really sure what I expected from it. Rather anticlimatic actually :P

I also love this "imperfect " purple gold it looks the inside of an geode. 26:28

I assume that most of the missing gold is a super fine dust embedded in the sandpaper directly. There's a reason companies that work with precious metals will incinerate that sort of stuff at yend of their useful lives.

If Nile was a publishing scientist, he'd have well over a hundred papers to his name by now. It's NUTS how incredibly well-researched and thorough his experiments are, considering how much of what he does is quite literally cutting-edge basic science in topics that even most people in academia don't mess with.

Speaking of Sci-Fi fusion, Star Trek's "impulse generators" actually uses a deuterium helium 3 mixture for fusion in some canon. Others say it's a deuterium-tritium, but yea.

i had a thought on the degassing he did to get rid of the cracks. when he melts and solidifies the aluminum, it lets out a bunch of hydrogen gas, which causes cracks. so what if he kept the argon on it, and just kept melting and cooling and melting and cooling and melting and cooling it in the forge? each time he does it, it would potentially expel a bit more of the gas, until none (or next to none) left. kinda like he was distilling the purple gold.

Welp.... Off to make a nuclear reactor. Need some gold.

@bruhmaster4207

2 ай бұрын

The reactor won't only be stable in regards to reactivity, but also financially

@Sausager

2 ай бұрын

I like your luna crunchycat pfp​@@bruhmaster4207

@Jaizizzizi

Ай бұрын

@@bruhmaster4207take a joke

@SotEnjoyer113

3 күн бұрын

@@Jaizizziziyou clearly didn’t tell nderstand HIS joke, he wasn’t correcting nor disagreeing he was making a joke along side the og comment

Lol, imagine the conversation after a professor requests 2 tons of gold because they want to make bio shielding for an experiment they are doing.

@Laerei

Ай бұрын

In today's money, it would cost 164,900,000 dollars.

@Aaa-vp6ug

17 күн бұрын

⁠@@Laerei “It costs 400 000 dollars to use this for 12 seconds”

I'm only a barista but I was thinking. What'd if this was done in a vacuum. Do you think it will pull the air bubbles out. The things that make it crack on cooling.

The comma as a decimal point or rather as a decimal separator since it isn't a point is a country thing. A lot of European countries use commas and not points as a decimal separator, it is referred to as a "point" in English of course but the in the languages of those countries it generally would not be. In French for example they use a comma, so likely the gold bar is from the French part of canada since he is Canadian.

Gamma phase is easier to imagine if you first grasp alpha phase; These being connected to the world of nanoparticles. In short, it all has to do with how much space and the where of that the nanoparticles occupy. Alpha occupies less or different spaces in an often triangular formation and Gamma phase occupies more space that the alpha can not; Gamma is usually more polygonal in nature. Gamma will usually have better thermally conductive properties and fuse well with itself and is more easily found in compounds especially alumina and gold; Makes sense because gold is well conductive and alum is good at fusing.

i really love your reactions, you really make an effort to incorporate your nuclear knowledge into all sorts of topics that you wouldn't even think are directly connected. for instance, i love how when he brings up gold initially, you started talking about how gold is technically possible to create with fission. i really feel your passion for your work!

1:01:27 When he lost 5 grams, my first guess would be when he bubbled the Aluminum out of the alloy ingot with HCl. Does this gamma-structure or whatever he called it have different properties which allow Au dissolution without aqua regia? It's the one step where I think NileRed may have overlooked, extracting trace Gold from that acid bath.

Thanks, to you, NileRed and the algorithm for that recommendation!

Now they know how to make nanoparticles of Gold(Au, 79), and other elements and medicine is 1 place where chemists believe that these nanoparticles are gonna go far.

In South Africa, our decimal system uses a comma as the decimal marker, and spaces as the grouping symbol. I have no idea why, but it's irritating with Microsoft Excel or the calculator to have to use the comma symbol instead of the decimal point on your number pad.

depending what you amalgamate gold with it can become super brittle. I was melting down a gold ring once and the product came out super brittle and chunky when I ran it through a roller, when I asked a friend, he said it was contaminated with lead, probaby from a repair with soft solder. I had to send the bar to a guy to extract all the gold from it.

I find it fascinating that the crystalline structure of an element/compound will change it in so many ways. Take carbon, it's the structure that denotes if it's a diamond, graphite or graphene, it's still just the one element.

I owe my passing grade in chemistry because of nilered

Hey I was wondering if you ever did a react video on the nuclear submarine accident in Russia they made a movie about it called “k19 widowmaker “ I’d love to see your thoughts and reactions on it

the komma for decimal comes from german speaking countries I think this gold is from swizerland but im not shure about that maybe the comma is used like that in other countries too

@aBoogivogi

2 ай бұрын

Scandinavia +1

@adriansalcedogomez6976

2 ай бұрын

In Cuba we use the comma like that as well.

@linos77

2 ай бұрын

Greeks use comma as well

I'm pausing right at 4:41, yeah. Gold is normally super malleable: It can even be drawn into a single atom thick wire. Of course, alloying causes significant difference in the bulk structure.

4:25 if you look at a phase diagram you can see straight lines in pits of the melting point where the liquidus and solidus lines meet, defining one very tight melting point instead of a softening range or structural change. Those are compounds and those really tight points in the concentration on the graph always mean some odd, wacky metal alloy that will just... sometimes behave like a salt even? They are crystaline, sometimes fragile and act like a pure compound made of metal and non-metal. Good examples are CuAl2 or the well known carbides like Fe3C in cast iron. AlMg mixes can form two, Al3Mg2 and Al12Mg17 and the latter will be almost glass-like. Compounds are vile. Eutectics like SnPb (60-40) solder, SnCu (99.3-0.7) solder or "alusil" AlSi alloy for casting are also kinda interesting in the same regard but they are kinda different.

@Aaa-vp6ug

17 күн бұрын

“I like your funny words magic man.” - me

This was great to watch and I love the happy accident of it not filling the mould. A lot of discoveries are made through these kinds of unintended accidents.

This Purple Gold video is on a same level as Areogel one.

As someone who knows little to nothing about metallurgy, my guess about the sanding turning the surface silver is that it has something to do with work hardening.. like maybe by working the surface he is actually altering the crystal structure?

While gold would be very expensive as radiation shielding it is quite commonly used in creation of X-Rays for imaging and treatment (in treatment it is only used in older lower energy machines and to my knowledge all comercial Linear accelerators use Wolfram these days) But gold is very usefull for it´s density AND incredible thermal conductivits, because almost all energy from the accelerated electrons get´s converted into heat. It´s also very interesting that the USA also uses the german word Bremsstrahlung for that type of Process

The line about not using a nuclear reactor for Alchemy is hilarious. Chat GPT makes it seem like I can make it really easily as long as I have the Materials.

BIG FAN of your content!!!! Also, when you gave the shout out to ORNL it made my heart sing! My job as a senior in HS at ORHS was a work/study program with X-10 (aka Oak Ridge National Laboratory). Keep up the amazing content!

In fact, there are more countries that use coma as a decimal than countries that use point as a decimal.

Since color is determined on how the light gets resorbed by certain objects or materials I guess the sanding issue is related to destroying the surface structure of the alloy which results in different resorbtion patterns.

I'm a linguist from Russia, and oh boy did the comma thing get me. It is used instead of a decimal point in Russian all the time, in many languages too, and I believe it's also used in European languages and in Britain, though I'm not entirely sure. As for spacers... It's just confusing to see it as a spacer for me and I need a moment to process that 😂 But here we actually either use a space, or no spacers at all, and I know some places officially use a point as a spacer. It can actually be used as a spacer here too, but it's incredibly uncommon even taking into account the fact that other spacers aren't very common

Can you imagine if shotgun pellets looked like that Aluminum(Al, 13), instead of smooth spheres.

@MichaelMcglynn-ht2xt

Ай бұрын

You can make your own shells

Making a purple gold, and then stripping the aluminum out of it, could be a way to make basically gold foam, I wonder if you could do this process in an extreme kind of like AeroGel and have a super low density gold foam, I bet it could be a really effective radiation shielding that would be lightweight.

13:05 When the gold dissolve and disappear. Is it the same weight.? Does the liquid wight +100g now or?

I have seen commas in banking and finance from foreigners. I think certain countries do it.

@shalala4571

2 ай бұрын

I sweden we use commas as decimal points. Eg 23,4 Celsius

@Sandromatic

2 ай бұрын

It's the standard in Europe and in general non-anglosphere locations from my understanding.

Woo! just found your channel. love nuclear science so i subscribed right away

man these videos are nice. keep up the good work

Everywhere but in US the comma is the decimal separator and the dot is the thousands separator

for a second there I though KZread was screwing with me again since I've been getting suggestions of videos as old as 15 years old.

Today i discovered that a radioactive gold buttplug is a prostate cancer treatment

It was the first time i saw someone make a real, hard, sturdy metal piece vanish into a liquid like salt in water to later materialize it

Hey man I’ve seriously taken a interest in all of your videos, nuclear energy has amazed me and I would like to know more, specifically what type of equipment is used to “split atoms” and how can the materials involved not immediately melt with the millions of degrees created from this process.

Keep up the good work showing people how to do proper reaction content

while his ring with the defect turned out really nice, I'm frankly surprised he didn't just try putting the graphite mold with purple gold partially formed, into his furnace, and just heating the whole thing back up to the melting temp, the mold would have been fine, and the excess gold top could have flowed back into the ring form.

Congrats on the new member of the family Tyler!

I wrote most of a Reed Solomon N+M RAID driver a whole bunch of years ago. Never finished writing it for various reasons, one of which was a bug in data recovery. After a whole while of not knowing what was wrong with it I just shelved the project. A bunch of years later I had a weird dream and woke up and realized what was wrong, went to my computer and fixed the line of code. So stupid.

Indonesia (an ex dutch colonies) use komma define decimal number. Anyway I imagine fusion would change the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom and transmute it into different element, while puple gold AuAl2 basically still elemental gold atoms being locked together with aluminium atoms becoming a compound chemical. That way you can attack just the aluminium with HCL and leave the gold atoms alone, turning them back into pure gold.

Is it that surprising, heat treating steel will turn it all sorts of blue and purple hues.

Gotta love a good accidental expansion joint x3

The chemical reactions at the start are really only things you will know in-depth if you are either a chemist in a specialised field or if you do precious mental salvaging from old electronics. or technically other things but thats the main source easily available. Or I suppose your like all of us here and watch videos about these things.

A relative was a chemist they mixed boric acid with sugar and used for ant poison, attracted to sugar and the acid dehydrated them if i recall what they told me right.

9:00 Decimal 99,9 readability for large number 999'999'999. Never have i seen it in the , position not denoting decimals.

Yeah, in my country commas are for decimals and dots are for 3-digit divisions

"I've seen [...] the comma refered to as a decimal point, but though not on [...] any professional engineering typ documentation" That such an American thing to say.

Wonder if could use tungsten tube for something like that that has a fairly high melting temp why they use for TIG welding.

This goober didn’t heat the metal as he formed it into a metal. Could have metal brushed the oxide away.

Bet Applied Science has all the same machines but they’re all homemade.

Calcin'd Sol seems to readily fix well. Maybe that is why it is fun to play with. Wounder if one could commixe Sol with Marchacite and get a raindbowy gold minera :3

Alchemy has a term called fusion for pretty much combining metals like that

So the issue with the sanding is the complete displacement of the crystalline structure. It needs to be heat annealed back to the crystalline form.

@Cardsandstoagies

2 ай бұрын

Edit I just got to this part of the video, it makes perfect sense. Think the crystal structure is like fur and sanding the surface is like putting it in dread locks. You gonna have to comb it out to see that proper color again.

This man could turn a video about turnip farming into something about nuclear

NileRed is the epitomy of "Fuck it, we ball."

Claims not to know everything nuclear,proceeds to know everything nuclear... lol love this content.

Why do i feel like ive already watched this months ago

T. Folse compilation video??? If this is a thing you wanna do regularly, which I think would be neat (so long as it isn't taking the place of 'original' reaction videos) a compilation of the 3 part "man who faked an element" reactions would be cool!

KZread. The place you watching someone drop $11,450 AUD on a gold bar when $1000 would have been enough, while you try search for 50 cents to buy noodles so you dont go another day without food hahahaha

53:22 As somebody who is currently working at ORNL, I'm interested to know who you know from there; I'm assuming they work at HFIR (because nuclear reactor)

what more can we find inside a power plant.. like other metals that you have found cool..?

the comma as a decimalpoint is standard practice in the netherlands so also maybe in othe counties

Some people watching it again are evaluating points in his process that could be enhanced with lab equipment, right now I am considering how you are going to eliminate the Aluminum oxide, and create the oxygen free melting environment to prevent the oxide. many opportunities to refine this process.

Best "never thought I'd have to say that" ever haha

chloroauric acid is what it is, chlorine, gold and hydrogen ions are your acid.. thats generally how chemicals are described in their names, the H in pH is Hydrogens, (p)otential (H)ysrogens When something is rich on oxygen ions its considered basic and an oxidizer. Acidity vs Alkaline is just a measure of how much excess Oxygen ions or Hydrogen ions that you have, the perfect balance is pure H20.. but yeah thats acidity and alkaline in a nutshell.. you can have chlorine and other antagonises like nitrogen you always need water in your acids..

I wonder if you can make a really porous gold piece by dissolving the aluminium. Possibly addign a surplus of aluminium.

oh, sick, didn't realize there were any nuclear scientists on YT. I actually just wrote a lil paper on Thorium reactors!

14:01 I expected you to laugh uncontrollably at the after spurts for obvious reasons.

Congrats on your kid ! 🎉

I don't know why but hearing jewellery makes me wince

So this reaction probably would have been more effective to do in a vacuum chamber without oxygen like a non reactive gas like argon. EDIT. seems so but I was thinking earlier in the process to avoid needing to reheat it, so instead of using mixing bowl use the crucible and maybe some current induced stirring on the metals rather than a stirring stick etc.. 30:00 OMG it is the lattice structure already, and heat will effect the bonding unit, different shape crystals reflect color differently. Geesh. Seriously you guys a scientists how is this not obvious.

"I can't imagine using a nuclear reactor for large scale alchemy." ... hold my beer.