Rhode Island police officer. Can't get enough of your content. We appreciate the time it takes to bring it to us. I'm saving some cash for a purchase like this someday. Love to you and your family. Thanks for supporting my brothers and sisters in blue 👍

what was cool was watching the stir bar increase in speed when you added water, showing just how dense the solution was with devolved gold

This reminds me of a school trip to the royal canadian mint when I was young. They used this same process essentially with the only real difference being they used titanium cathodes. That part always stuck with me because when I was a kid titanium was this magical super metal that only nasa and the military used. But good for you sir. You are purifying gold to the same high level of the RCM!!!

@bobedwards8896

4 жыл бұрын

titanium still my fav material

@1978coors

4 жыл бұрын

Actually I made this very suggestion on sreetips silver cell video. But using titanium. I was curious if it would work with carrot gold

Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips. This is not only pure gold. This is art. 🔥 Never ever bored to see this excellent clip. Thank you. God bless you🙏🔥

@sreetips

4 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks so much for this video, I have assumed it was possible but had not come across anybody actually doing it. Just a couple of pointers for the electrical side of things that you seem to be a little unsure of: The only absolute value is the current. This will dictate the speed of the reaction, which will determine the properties of the deposition. If all you are after is pure gold to be melted, go fast and go hard. If you are wanting a specific result, (such as a smooth coating) then slow and steady at a lower current will give you what you need. However, there are variables: The surface area of the electrodes, their separation distance, the conductivity and temperature of the electrolyte and the supply voltage is adjusted to accommodate for these variables to deliver the desired current. I believe your current was about right for your setup, any higher and the temperature of your electrolyte would have increased too much. To get the hundreds of amps of the original process, you'd need a much larger volume of solution to keep it from boiling.

I love your channel. I have watched many of your videos. I always wondered if the gold solution weighed more and I've always wondered if you could make a gold cell. Great video.. one day I will do what you do and you've brought me that much closer. Thank you

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I made a gold cell. In that video I measure the weight of liquid with gold in it and without the gold, just plain water. It’s titled Wohlwill Process

That is amazing, good to see you didn't have any trouble!

It just amazes me what you can achieve in your experiments. I'm glued to the screen watching your videos with amazement of your products you achieve. Thank you for allowing your viewers to experience. What most people are unable to experience for themselves.

You made it look easy. Thank you for showing us how to do this. God Bless 🙏

This is amazing! I love your content but this one is definitely at the top of the must watch list!

That’s incredible how well that worked. Those crystals are really cool looking. Awesome video as usual Sreetips 👍

Another great video sir! I was engrossed from start to finish and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Awesome results! Very cool that it worked!

Been waiting so long for you to do this. Wow . Do a slow experiment in gold crystal. Anode and cathode in solution, in gold electrolyte. And power it with two dissimilar metals in electrolyte( the lowest volts and amps) for a year. Bam. Then out pops the most beautiful slow gold crystal ever. Just like the Tucson gem show. A masterpiece to sell for a master dollar.

@sreetips

4 жыл бұрын

I made a note of your comment for future reference. Sounds interesting.

You also just made the worlds coolest gold coin...very cool...I'm blown away...you have me wanting to make gold crystal...amazing...thank you

That crystal is absolutely amazing!

It was worth the wait! B E A Utiful!! I think you're right it looks like a yellow sponge mushroom!!! Have a GREAT Day!!!!

Nice Job my love is the silver Crystals cell its so pretty to look at great Vlog thanks

As I understand the process, you can do this with most metals, you just need the electrolyte to contain a salt of the metal your after. You could use mixed copper metal, for a lower cost experiment, say a nickel coin, which is mostly copper with copper sulfate as the electrolyte with a bit of sulfuric acid added, any contaminates will turn into a slime on the bottom of the beaker, in this case, the nickel metal. Your gold experiment did not have enough contaminates to show up as slim and the electrolyte is still loaded with gold, but it is fully reusable and I'd say this was an excellent video. Try it with 14 k gold and notice the silver on the bottom. Or, you could use a silver salt electrolyte and end up with gold on the bottom. As a note, some metals are ok to deal with as metal, but as salts, they are very toxic, like nickel.

@Rob337_aka_CancelProof

Жыл бұрын

Now you got me sitting here staring it my gold ring on one hand in my titanium ring on the other thinking I don't need these all that badly I guess I could sacrifice them to the god of learning with little regret

Wonderful experiment, sreetips! And I subscribed to Dr. Young's channel too! I'm an amateur watch servicer/repairer, and I sometimes re-plate watch cases and bracelets with gold or nickel. We set up a similar electrolytic cell for the plating process.

I learn so much just by reading your comments. What a great forum

Thank you for another informative video.

Congratulations, you did it !

Absolutely beautiful.

congratulations professor. you are the best.

Canadian royal mint used Titanium cathode and gold anode in the same acid bath . In the video he just scraped the gold off the titanium plate . And could be used again . A surprising low voltage and a surprising large ampere . Great work man . I'm a subscriber . The Egyptians and incas did the EXACT same thing . In caves using plant juices . Did i say caves ? I mean megaithic stone constructions . Secret chambers . High science

It's hilarious that you said morel mushroom. That's exactly what I was thinking. Maybe because that is one of my 2 favorite hobbies - gold and mushroom picking.

Thanks for the video absolutely cool I'm going to give this a go. Awesome!!!

That looks awesome!

Another great video

Hello Mrs and Mr sreetips. This is only not refining, but truly a masterpice. Like you say sir.. A pice of art. In my eyes.... So close to 1000. So clean gold... Thank you🌹

If you taper the anode, so it is thinner and narrower as you progress towards the bottom, you should minimize or even eliminate any of the anode falling off.

Once again this is fascinating.The gas hood is sounding worse and worse as time passes. Great to see this success. The smile tells a lot. Your video is done and you will be pleased I am sure. It will take a coupe weeks to get it edited and posted my friend. My editor has more than just myself he does videos for.Take care my friend !

@sreetips

4 жыл бұрын

Great, thank you!

It does look like a Morel mushroom! Our season for morels starts in about 2 weeks up here in Boyne City, Michigan.

I suspect the gold was coming out of solution as crystals since you saturated it while boiling. Recrystallization is a common method for purifying a compound dissolved in a solvent. That's probably some pretty pure gold. It might even be more pure than what you'd get by using sodium metabisulfate. You could put some of the electrolyte in the fridge or even freezer (don't actually freeze it) to get more. It might be interesting to see how pure it tests out doing it that way.

Thanks you always do the best slot from Jordan

Absolutely awesome. I am happy that it worked. My thought as to why they used a higher current power supply in the book was to increase the speed of the process. If you are planning on doing this in the future, you could always melt the high purity gold and reform it for another use in the cell.

@speedonz

4 жыл бұрын

They were probably using a larger anode.

@buggsy5

3 жыл бұрын

The operative value is current density. In the book, the cathode area was vastly larger, so a higher total current is necessary to obtain the desired current density. To keep the current density relatively constant, they use multiple anodes and cathodes. Another factor that affects the current density is the spacing between the anodes and cathodes.

@jennyferfarias971

3 жыл бұрын

Can you tell me what is the name of the book?

Very cool..... Well Done !!

Great video as always my friend

@richiebthebarberbowens4193

4 жыл бұрын

And thanks for answering my question

Enjoyable production values and professional working environment in all of your youtubes. Also, remarkably steady hands in pouring out solutions of pregnant liquor (envy here)... The 'Wohlwill' video above: very instructive. Obviously, you could scale it up by running several of your beaker electrolytic at a time cells in parallel. Some authorities say it's possible to get .99999 purity this way; although this might be two x through the Wohlwill process. Three suggestions for Wohlwill (and not to go against Hoke, but to tweak her just a bit): 1. I would make sure that the stirring bar rotates at slowest possible speed (say, 30 rpm) so as not to raise up any slimes settling at the bottom of your beaker, and have them get trapped by the gold crystals forming at the Cathode; 2. Separating your Anode from your Cathode another few centimeters wouldn't hurt, again to prevent any possible impurities at the Anode. The process will take longer. 3. Hoke recommends 1.5v; a lower voltage will of say even 1v will help slow down the inevitable contamination of your electrolyte after repeated batches, as well as ensuring the purity of your final prodcut. Of course, this will take considerably more time, too.

@SURFEAMORETERNO

3 жыл бұрын

Well observed friend! 400mA / Dcm² of the cathode would also delay the operation much more, but would cause the gold to settle in metallic form.

This is so stinking cool sreetips, I just bought my first hot plate and looking at filter flasks right now.

That’s awesome!!

Thank you shree sir very nice gold Cristalis refining video.

Looks great

Who knew you could grow gold???!!! Amazing!

I had an experience exposing gold concentrates under a 2'x3' magnifying glass. Temperature exceeded melting point. The gold crystallized out of the concentrates very similar. My only conclusion is that the high concentration of UV light caused the crystalline growth. Very neat....!

Pretty cool looking😊👍

Have a very good Christmas and a happy New year. Thanks for all Nice vidio clip. I see forways to follow you in 2022. Take care my friend, and good bless you and your famelimembers💞 Thanks😊

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Same to you - thank you

@arnedalbakk6315

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mr sreetips 😊

Excellent video

I know this is an older video but, it is still one of my favorites.

@sreetips

Жыл бұрын

This one is a good one. I may do another in the future. Crank the volts up and see if I can form some crystals similar to the silver cell,

4 amps seems a bit high for that small of a cathode; it's likely to be a bit less fuzzy if you grow it more slowly at lower amps. I've never done gold, but when the anode and cathode are the same metal with copper or silver, you only need a tiny voltage, 0.1v or less, to push the ions across successfully, and the slower they move, the more ordered the crystal. Of course, Faraday's Law tells you how much longer it will take to move a certain amount of metal over, and it can take a week to get a few grams at low currents.

@sreetips

4 жыл бұрын

I was going by the instructions in the book. I had zero experience with this.

@buggsy5

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Yep. The book is concerned with recovery and refining of precious metals. Getting pretty crystals is of zero interest. But Orion is correct, a lower current density will produce larger crystals.

Oh yeah!!! Like it a lot!

I use the Shor refining unit. I learned to make my Gold Anode in the shape of a wedge and attaching the thicker part to the end of heavy wire so it completely dissolves and doesn’t drop in a piece.

@bpxtn3

4 жыл бұрын

Chuck Eichhorn @sreetips

@xmachine7003

4 жыл бұрын

I concur

@MadScientist267

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering about that... Ensures there's nothing thicker hanging off of something thinner about to break off

It's definitely interesting thank you for sharing this six stars

Superb!

Your videos are excellent...very professional. For the amateur wothout equipment ir the chemical supplies...would it be possible.for.you to maybe make videos of other ways to safely reclaim precious metals?

Nice video, but you have to have gold in solid form to do the electrolysis process. Most of us don't. That's why I'm sticking to 3 refines in AR to get close to the same purity. Cheers

Love the channel Sreetips tell the Mrs's hello for me.

Awesome video street 👍😁 felt like I was back at college ha. I watched Dr Pauls video and he sound like he was talking in tongues haha. 😂

@sreetips

4 жыл бұрын

That's the same reaction that I had to his video.

Spot on with it looking like a morel mushroom

Love the pie pan.

Crystal gold. Sweet.

Yep that Pure Gold Morel could be eaten by mistake! Very nice dude! ✌️PT

Makes sense. When you add straight Hydrochloric to Gold, it won't dissolve because the atoms of Gold leave solution as fast as they are dissolved, the electric current causes the dissolved Gold atoms to follow the current flow and leave solution at the cathode end of the current flow. You're taking advantage of the natural reaction, very tricky, well done.

@lingamsethu

2 жыл бұрын

In an electrolytic solution corresponding metal as ions not atoms

@lingamsethu

2 жыл бұрын

An atom is electrically neutral where as ion is charged

@mikeconnery4652

Жыл бұрын

Thank you now I understand

I am here after MAC asked about this. That is a lot of gold you are playing with bud.

Omg I laughed for 10 minutes when you said” ya it made it bigger”🤣🤣🤣

@wernerhiemer406

3 жыл бұрын

Dents. Wood would been better or leather.

Wow very nice video

i would love to see this experiment re-ran with the same level of detail you showed to the setup being applied to all variables involved. You spent so much time setting up the physical layout but paid absolutely no mind to ensuring you had a top notch, low noise, near to perfect constant-voltage power source or any top tier temperature regulation. Imagine this done with the perfect physical layout, perfect power regulated source of current, and the temperature was controlled down to the thousandth of a degree. If you wanna be a chemist, mr sreetips, be the gold standard :)

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

I’m not a chemist. I took a chemistry class about 50 years ago in high school and got a “D” - you don’t have to be a chemist to refine precious metals.

@TerribleShmeltingAccident

2 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips my apologies Sreetips. If I can explain: 1. This was my attempt at humor, you know the "gold standard" comment. 2. I actually would be interested in that video because you have the process as it stands down pat & the only thing I could possibly think of to improve it would be my original comment. I apologize that I was unable to convey the message in the way I was trying to. At the end of the day I love your videos and am in awe at the levels of success you have in a non professional environment. Lastly I have NOT been lucky enough to speak from experience. I am not saying that if u upgrade those variables that u will get a different result, I am merely speculating. I respect your expertise my friend...I apologize if I conveyed anything other than that

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

No foul, thank you

Cool mushroom art, maybe tag it as such on ebay for a wider attraction. Interesting experiment.

thats a first for me,nice work......

Unusual but cool

Hey sreetips thanks all the extra chemistry tips and knowledge......your pretty badass.......thanks.....I'll have show some of my projects including gold extraction....laters.. C you soon

@sreetips

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent, thank you

Thanks Sreetips, awesome video! are you sure that the first bottle precipitate was metalic gold? it looks like gold chloride crystals to me, perhaps the solution became over saturated at room temp and that causes gold chloride cristals to precipitate.

BIG LIKE !

Beautiful video, would love to see you do it again with different voltage and current to try to produce larger crystals. Do you know why the crystals were so hard despite being so small? With copper in a similar crystal size, the thing would just crumble from my experience.

I think I might try this experiment also!! I jus need to get my gold stack up more first

I noticed the noise level in the hood is higher. That's good. More noise comes from more air flow. More air flow means less sulfur dioxide down your throat.

@sreetips

4 жыл бұрын

I cut part of the restriction off the outlet pipe. But I've got a new motor. Just need time to install it.

Outstanding. Was waiting a long time to see this. It's 5 p.m. Eastern and still no bids with 5 hours left to the auction. If it doesn't sell, makeup one gram packages for $100 starting bid on each. I'd gladly pay that, these crystals are special, but not easily liquidatable bullion. To get 1700 Worth, as a curiosity, is beyond my means. Second comment / question is: I noticed that you're keeping your silver cell free of any base metals buy re-refining crystal, but wasn't an excess of copper creating more interesting crystals? I thought you had mentioned something like that. I wouldn't end this experiment, to see larger crystals would be awesome, as well as more valuable. Again, outstanding job. Thanks

@sreetips

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, copper in the electrolyte makes better crystals. I'm doing the crystal re-refine because it was requested.

So, if it was 220.5g lighter with water than with the chloroauric acid, and there was only 160.5g of gold in the solution, does that mean that the same volume of aqua regia weighs 60g more than the water?? I would not have expected that, I always kind of had an assumption that the acid was less heavy per unit volume than water! 😅

I found calculations on a website that using displacement highway is graduated cylinder and a scale you could not only determine whether a gold was real but also its purity 10 karat versus 14 karat versus 18 carat Etc which is accurate enough to eliminate the need to buy expensive reagents for testing so yes it most certainly will be differences in density especially at that concentration

Looks like a morel mushroom. I was thinking of the exact same thing!

Nice 👏👏👏👏✨

I took calculus in college. No more logs and with respect to whatever function or constant for me! It seems like another language but if anyone takes enough time they can understand what the dude is saying at least somewhat but the answers wont add value or improve your life or anything lol. The crystals grown were pretty sweet! I'm surprised Sreetips wasn't sure he could pull this experiment off! I have extreme confidence in his refining abilities!

Shame I can't buy from your eBay store being in UK, but appreciate why. Very interesting video. Thank you!

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I tried. ebays policy not mine

@buggsy5

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreetips Interesting. International sales didn't use to be a problem. I have bought and sold many item to/from the UK.

@sreetips

3 жыл бұрын

eBay won’t fend for me if an overseas buyer claims there’s a problem. For example, if a buyer claims the item never arrived and I have no way to prove that the overseas carrier actually delivered it. They could end up with the item I sold and get a refund. In the USA I use usps. Delivery can be verified and the dispute settled then and there. All I do is provide tracking and verification the item was delivered to the address that they provided. eBay will back me up. That’s why I don’t risk shipping precious metals overseas.

I wonder if you could grow larger crystals by slowing the reaction down similar to the silver cell, still very cool experiment, not many people get to play with pure gold like this

Absolutely bad ass

Right on🇺🇸

The fluro color of gold In solution is awesome

🙌🏻

you know if you made a pair of those in to hanging ear rings they would look pretty neat, might even fetch a premium price.

@TheKubux

4 жыл бұрын

You could probably protect the crystals by casting them in resin.

It is like a copper refining - the best economic method to get the purest metal.

Your crazy crack me up!

Auric chloride crystals not metallic gold i think ;) Good to see some fresh content. might even have to have a go myself!

Oh yeah 😂👍 like a boss

That really came out beautiful! Are you sure you want to sell it?

Hey sreetips, not sure if using water in the beaker to measure the difference in weight is the proper way to make an apt comparison due to the difference in density of electrolyte and water. I believe the correct scientifically accurate measurement would be to add the leftover electrolyte back into the beaker and measure from there - someone correct me if im wrong only commenting bc this channel is awesome and i love how accurate it tries to be; great vid!!!

@shayne3190

4 жыл бұрын

Gordon Chace actually the 100% proper way would be to use aqua regia. The electrolyte was being constantly replenished with gold from the anode.

@MassaRiaIVSidikalang

4 жыл бұрын

@@shayne3190 I Thank You

@buggsy5

3 жыл бұрын

As long as the volumes are the same, it is perfectly accurate. He was measuring weight difference, not specific gravity or density or some other solute/solvent dependent variable.

coo stuff

GOLD CRYSTALS?! YES!!! FINALLY!!!

I was thinking the same thing! Morel mushroom hunting season is coming up btw guys. 😂

@ 1:04 - "I'm gonna put it upon the scale and measure... I don't know if it is accurate comparison..." For more accurate measurement I'd recommend using volumetric flask - they aren't that expensive, and they will give much more accurate measurement. Obviously, those are available only in fixed volumes (like, say, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250 ml, and so on), but you can compare weight of a fixed sample, measure the total volume of solution in question using measuring cylinder, and then do the math.