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I really enjoy your proficiency in your trade, just a pleasure to watch the results, the way the law of nature is perfectly consistent points to something greater is just amazing
I love watching your videos nothing better you're an amazing teacher and now it all makes sense with the book and your videos it is getting me to where I need to be thank you
It's times like these when I question my CZcams algorithm enough to wonder how I got here but also praise it for guiding me to this absolute gem. I'm just so blown away right now.
HOLY SHEEP DIP!!! I got three kids headed to college in the next four years. I was out of my mind with worry on how to help pay for it. I literally hurt myself tripping over the gold bearing computers, TVs and electronics that people in my hood throw away daily. i just wasn't aware of how to purify properly. THANKS BOSS
seen a lot of metal smelting videos but never seen such a beautiful electrolysis crystal growing, it is first time im seeing a metal so fluffy. keep it up.
I've just spent hours reading your comments and obviously watching your videos. I'm a retired Marine Engineer and always remembered about the hulls sacrificial anode outside and the other erroneous fact that there's enough gold in a square mile of sea water, enough to make a wedding ring anyways. When I was a wee lad I used to read the alchemy sections from a huge set of Calf bound encyclopedia Brittannica that the British museum stored at my Parents property during WW2, weird how things are connected in life. Hope your gold and silver brings you as much joy as I had reading about alchemy, especially as all the ssssss's were replaced by ffffs, fo much fun, methinkf i did fpent too much time at fea under the red hot fun..
@@sreetips said, "I think those anodes were zinc." In most cases these days. Zinc has desirable electrical characteristics, it's relatively cheap, and easy to cast into shapes/sizes needed for a sacrificial anode on various boats, and it's easy to tell when it should be replaced.
@@Wolftatze interesting... I had thought that it was because when making the old lead-type characters that the "f" was simply easier to make than the "s." I'm learning all kinds of stuff on CZcams today!
00:09 Harvesting high-purity silver from the silver cell 02:16 Importance of having a fuse in the silver cell operation 04:23 Electrolysis process to yield pure elemental silver metal. 06:21 Preparing additional electrolyte with pure silver Crystal 09:10 Harvesting and handling pure silver crystals. 12:32 Rinsing off electrolyte from pure silver crystals 15:42 Rebooting the silver cell with a new electrolyte 17:38 Pure silver crystals formed after 30 minutes. Crafted by Merlin AI.
When testing for dissolved silver, I (again) recommend you use potassium iodide instead of hydrochloric acid as it is more sensitive and the distinctive yellow color is better visible in trace amounts.
For those of you that have never used nitric acid and silver like this the photo does not do justice to that blue color it’s a blue you have never seen before it’s amazing!
This process of producing pure silver crystal is mesmerizing 😮 When you poured off the silver nitrate electrolyte, my eyes beheld a most magical site! I can't wait to watch the melt. I hope you get it poured like the last one. Where the very top of the bar gently rocks back and forth before solidifying, leaving those awesome pour lines! You are the man!
I was watching Full Metal Alchemist and I somehow ended up here. But I am not complaining that is some beautiful silver you’ve made there and I had no idea you can create it in such a way.
Full is an understatement Sreetips 🤠 That is a very harvest. Nice Work 👍 Thank you for sharing with us. I was wondering when you were going to upload a video.
I feel like it’s Christmas when new sreetips videos are uploaded. Thank you for sharing the knowledge you know with us. I’ve learned a lot in school before I graduated but man you never fail to teach me something new.
Another great video. You and the misses have to go looking for sterling and other silver almost every day. I know there’s a lot of work that goes into your videos that isn’t in your videos. Love your content two big 👍👍
Hi Mr. sreetips. I have found all your videos very interesting. But I particularly liked the “Refining scrap precious metals from The jewellers buffing wheel “ even your methods were mentioned by Mount Baker Mining & Minerals MBMM. He fascinates me too. Thanks
I am in a state of wow, old friend. You must have slept along side the cell so it could continue to do it's job eh. I sure don't get over here as much as I would like to or should my friend. I sure enjoyed working with the crystal silver. It melted beautifly and quicker than regular casting shot does. Short as they are I always enjoy my visits with SREETIPS. Thanks a bunch and I hope to be back soon, old friend.
Very interesting, no, fascinating 😂 You should play classical music and see how the crystals grow. You’ll probably get some amazing patterns. Would love to see that on your next run.
Alchemists already knew this process lol, it wasnt something new for them. They were far more advanced than this guy (see philosopher stone, animal stone, universal medicine etc)
Like physics' electrical experiments, or construction work (laying bricks or stones to make a tiny wall), or teaching how to exercise each muscle, or how credit cards work? Reminder that "Education" is designed mainly for obedience conditioning, so your suggestion won't happen anytime soon
@@theyellowarchitect4504 Apathy is the true enemy of education. We can take part in our teachers and educational boards. We can realize common sense. It is when we don’t attend or care that Karen(s) take over. Or… Mrumph… 🤷🏼♂️ like, whatever… somebody else’s problem.
Free pouring from the big beaker to the dump bucket is wild - no filter and nothing to stop ounces of silver just getting dumped out accidentally lol idk
I watched you weighing your silver and you were right about the weight of 1.3 kg. of silver. I noticed a lot of comments saying it was 1.032 but it is 1.3 on the scale not 1,03. I'm in Canada and worked witth scales in metric since 1980. Thanks for the input you put into the video.
I wonder if you can accelerate your crystal growth by adding a real "earth ground" connected to the basket (if you don't have one already)? I think it would allow a more direct path to ground (earth ground) which would allow for more/larger/constant electron flow from + to earth ground. If you already are connecting your stainless basket to an earth ground, my apologies. You may already have a ground rod as part of your main power panel. Many main power panels have a copper ground rod driven into the ground or set into the foundation of the house and connected by thick bare copper wire to the power panel. If you have this already, you can simply tap into that ground rod, or add a new one close to your silver cell. I wonder if this would be a good experiment to try, with before & after tests. Maybe this will accelerate the growth or increase the size of your silver crystals. I'm assuming you've already found the voltage "sweet spot", but when using a real earth ground, you might be able to increase the voltage and/or amperage to get better results?
mr sreetips may i ask how you keep the copper down below the threshold where it starts to settle out into the silver crystals? is that why you create more silver nitrate solution when doing a second run to help dilute the already copper imbued silver nitrate solution and keep it below that threshold? and more importantly what do you do with the solution youve used twice, do you keep diluting it or do you use some chemist magic to drop the silver out of solution keeping the copper behind to dispose of?
Beautiful video! Which safety precautions need to be made when working with these kind of corrosive materials? What (processes in this video) are critical safety hazards and what could be the consequences of improper care and precautions?
Could a process like this work for iron as well? I just watched a video on how some of the most expensive Japanese swords in the world are made and they basically need pure iron, but they use a kilm instead. Might be worth making and contacting Japanese sword makers, just a random idea. Very cool and well explained video!
thanks for sharing this. someone shared this with me and I really like that you addressed all of the electrochemistry basics in your explanation. Could you share how you know it is 999 Fine Silver?
I’ve had the silver analyzed several times. I use strict controls to ensure high purity for each batch. The samples I sent in came back three nines every time, except once. I ran a batch of silver crystal back through the cell a second time and sent it in for ICP analysis. That came back greater than five nines fine. That’s better than 99,999 parts per one hundred thousand pure silver.
@@sreetipsyour controls really are in place and that's great to hear. If I do end up doing a study of my own - I'll keep you posted on my progress. Thanks so much for the knowledge share.
As someone that's used methamphetamine for 18 years (1 year clean currently) as I watch this process can't help to grin and giggle to myself "we'll take this over and set it on some low heat..and dry this off" (15.34) You're incredibly talented and I watched from start to finish. Very interesting.
What's the orange fumes from dissolving silver in acid on the heat. I've seen many different orange fumes from dissolving stuff in acid. But it always seem to be a different type of chemical.
Wonder how the crystals would form if you played music to them or put ultrasonic vibrations through the electrolyte as you were growing the crystals.. love the vid mate
Now I am curious how to determine that the copper saturation as below the 60g per letter threshold. Do you know of any testing method to determine the copper concentration? Maybe a 10 ml sample in a test tube, remove the silver as silver chloride and filter it out, then cement out the copper and weigh it. Multiply weight by 100 and if it’s less than 60 the solution is still stable for refining purposes. That’s what I would do but there has to be an easier way.
I’ve used a spectrophotometer. But it was never very high concentration of copper. So now I just never run the same electrolyte more than twice. And I always add silver nitrate to the second run. This practice has kept me out of trouble for thirteen years. I’ve had the silver analyzed several times. Comes back three nines every time. Except once, I ran the silver crystal back through the cell with fresh electrolyte a second time. Had them do an ICP assay. Came back greater than five nines fine. That’s 99,999 parts per one hundred thousand pure elemental silver.
I follow you from Aswan, I am Egyptian Thank you for everything you provide. You are honest and provide every detail I want to discuss with you something similar to this You are currently working on a metal farming operation . I want to say whether metal or metal oxides grow in soil through it Substitute the solution dissolved in it Someone I spoke to before I followed you, and I saw what was mentioned above, he said that there are types of soil that contain all types of minerals. What do you think of this?
Different soils will contain different amounts of metals, minerals, and organic matter. The best soil for growing plants will contain trace amounts of various metals, and small amounts of minerals of various kinds, but will be mostly organic matter. As far as "metal farming" - I'm not sure what you mean. It is impossible to grow metal like you grow plants. The only way that metal is present is if it has been introduced, or if it's been there since the Creation.
if you had a glass/transparent lid for the cell ...could set up a time lapse, as the crystal/plating out process would be fascinating to watch in time lapse. youtube gold right there.
I understood that the sliver gets depleted as the cell works but if sliver is growing in the cell what happens to the amount of liquid or another words does it just evaporate ? I'm not sure how to as my question.
Two depletions are going on simultaneously. The physical level of the electrolyte decreases due to evaporation of the liquid from the electrolyte. And, the amount of silver present in the electrolyte declines as the cell operates. It gets plated out on the cathode along with the rest of the silver ions that are passing through the anode filter and into the electrolyte. That’s why I add more silver nitrate for the second run. To keep the silver concentration high. Higher silver nitrate concentration, higher conductivity. Fast crystal growth. But the slimes in the filter slow it back down. I have changed filter mid-run to increase the speed of silver growth, and it works.
Found your videos out of pure curiosity and didn't realize you could grow silver. After all the ingredients used to grow the crystals and the electricity, is this profitable or just a fun hobby?
This is my hobby. And yes, it is highly profitable. But I dont take paper dollars. I get paid in silver (and gold). If I get any paper then I immediately convert it to metal. Don’t want to get stuck holding a stack of worthless paper.
I have a quick question, if you dissolve copper in the nitric acid solution, the electrolyte will crystalize copper instead of silver, knowing in advance that the anode has both copper and silver and gold for example.
As long as condition are properly maintained in the cell, only the silver will deposit on the cathode. The copper will remain in solution in the electrolyte. The gold, being insoluble, will get trapped in the anode filter, and I can recover it later when I process the filters.
been watching your videos now for a while. this was an interesting batch. you said it looked like wool, i was going to comment on some sort of moss. it also seemed quieter. usually it still sounds like youre scraping metal. this almost seemed " fluffy"
sorry for stupid question im not chemist, but did he grow silver from just the chemicals or he purified some silver from lets say 2kg impure to 1.3kg pure silver? is this profitable? thanks in advance
I’m not a chemist either. I use sterling to refine gold. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. I recover the silver and run it through my silver cell. For every 100g of impure silver I add to the anode basket, I’ll harvest 98g of high purity silver from the cell. No new silver is being created out of thin air.
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Gud vids 💯💥, great CZcamsr. Hello Mr and Mrs Sreetips 🦵
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I really enjoy your proficiency in your trade, just a pleasure to watch the results, the way the law of nature is perfectly consistent points to something greater is just amazing
Thanks, I look forward to answering questions and replying to comments. Was very disappointed to see them turned off!
I love watching your videos nothing better you're an amazing teacher and now it all makes sense with the book and your videos it is getting me to where I need to be thank you
It's times like these when I question my CZcams algorithm enough to wonder how I got here but also praise it for guiding me to this absolute gem. I'm just so blown away right now.
It’s almost like it believes we can achieve this.
You can't make silver am I incorrect?
Me too how to make dopamine I guess or meths
Yes thank you for telling everyone
I did it in my garage, so it is achievable.
"Money doesn't grow on trees Billy"
"No it's grown in a lab mom!"
You are wrong Steven... ...Yes money growing from trees , what's about fruits, vegetables, cereals,weeds etc.. ?? All came from trees!
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HOLY SHEEP DIP!!! I got three kids headed to college in the next four years. I was out of my mind with worry on how to help pay for it. I literally hurt myself tripping over the gold bearing computers, TVs and electronics that people in my hood throw away daily. i just wasn't aware of how to purify properly. THANKS BOSS
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seen a lot of metal smelting videos but never seen such a beautiful electrolysis crystal growing, it is first time im seeing a metal so fluffy. keep it up.
The wristwatch was a great idea.
Time lapse recording without a frame of reference doesn't tell how long the reaction actually takes.
It's little things, like using a cold spoon to check for steam that set you apart from the rest. Excellent video once more. Thank you.
I've just spent hours reading your comments and obviously watching your videos. I'm a retired Marine Engineer and always remembered about the hulls sacrificial anode outside and the other erroneous fact that there's enough gold in a square mile of sea water, enough to make a wedding ring anyways. When I was a wee lad I used to read the alchemy sections from a huge set of Calf bound encyclopedia Brittannica that the British museum stored at my Parents property during WW2, weird how things are connected in life. Hope your gold and silver brings you as much joy as I had reading about alchemy, especially as all the ssssss's were replaced by ffffs, fo much fun, methinkf i did fpent too much time at fea under the red hot fun..
There’s gold in your back yard. But it’s so tiny an amount that it’s just not worth going after it. I think those anodes were zinc.
@@sreetips said, "I think those anodes were zinc."
In most cases these days. Zinc has desirable electrical characteristics, it's relatively cheap, and easy to cast into shapes/sizes needed for a sacrificial anode on various boats, and it's easy to tell when it should be replaced.
Rah
Fun fact: the fs that replaced the s are probably from an old german way of writing. I remember seeing this in old church books over here.
@@Wolftatze interesting... I had thought that it was because when making the old lead-type characters that the "f" was simply easier to make than the "s." I'm learning all kinds of stuff on CZcams today!
00:09 Harvesting high-purity silver from the silver cell
02:16 Importance of having a fuse in the silver cell operation
04:23 Electrolysis process to yield pure elemental silver metal.
06:21 Preparing additional electrolyte with pure silver Crystal
09:10 Harvesting and handling pure silver crystals.
12:32 Rinsing off electrolyte from pure silver crystals
15:42 Rebooting the silver cell with a new electrolyte
17:38 Pure silver crystals formed after 30 minutes.
Crafted by Merlin AI.
That sounds like a hell of a process!
When testing for dissolved silver, I (again) recommend you use potassium iodide instead of hydrochloric acid as it is more sensitive and the distinctive yellow color is better visible in trace amounts.
Good input, thank you.
@@sreetips You're more than welcome. It is also something I think more of your viewers will appreciate.
@@apveeningyeah but that blue looks really cool. It won't look like he's doing a chemical fermentation process on his urine this way
@@stompingpeak2043 That blue is copper, when you see that, you normally don't test for silver.
@@apveening the blue was blue on my screen. maybe rest your computer?
For those of you that have never used nitric acid and silver like this the photo does not do justice to that blue color it’s a blue you have never seen before it’s amazing!
you make me want to use nitric acid now
Poppa Smurf blue
This process of producing pure silver crystal is mesmerizing 😮 When you poured off the silver nitrate electrolyte, my eyes beheld a most magical site! I can't wait to watch the melt. I hope you get it poured like the last one. Where the very top of the bar gently rocks back and forth before solidifying, leaving those awesome pour lines!
You are the man!
This is my comment, exactly. I experienced the same.
I was watching Full Metal Alchemist and I somehow ended up here. But I am not complaining that is some beautiful silver you’ve made there and I had no idea you can create it in such a way.
lol go from anime full metal alchemist to real life full metal alchemist. youtube algorithm ftw
dude i started watching it yesterday, finished it the next day it being today, now i;m here. crazy how life works.
I’m really wanting to try some silver recovery. All the info is a valuable resource. We all thank you Sreetips
Pure awesome! Thanks for inspiring to re-learn chemistry.
Thank you sir I always enjoy the silver cell clean up as it's one of my favorite metals six stars brother
Great content. You always peak my interest. All the best to u and the Mrs.
Full is an understatement Sreetips 🤠 That is a very harvest. Nice Work 👍 Thank you for sharing with us. I was wondering when you were going to upload a video.
Hello Mr. SREETIPS! Good job, well done one more time, it is (video) again educational. Thank you!🙂
Hello Mrs and Mr Sreetips.
Have a nice weekend.
God bless both of you.
Silver is "Gold" after all clips' you have produced 🙏🔥
I love how Sreetips is doing huge numbers in PMs now and he's still rockin the old caserol dishes ❤
Its a beautiful thing you are the GOAT,of youtube fine metal recovery
I feel like it’s Christmas when new sreetips videos are uploaded. Thank you for sharing the knowledge you know with us. I’ve learned a lot in school before I graduated but man you never fail to teach me something new.
Another great video. You and the misses have to go looking for sterling and other silver almost every day. I know there’s a lot of work that goes into your videos that isn’t in your videos. Love your content two big 👍👍
I wanna see how you harvest those slime filters and what method to pull the different metals out.
I think ya got my entire networth in a bowl there bud lol.
Brilliant explanation, You have a great setup!
Hi Mr. sreetips. I have found all your videos very interesting. But I particularly liked the “Refining scrap precious metals from The jewellers buffing wheel “ even your methods were mentioned by Mount Baker Mining & Minerals MBMM. He fascinates me too. Thanks
Thank you!
I would love to harden that crystallized silver and display it like an Amethyst geode. Great video!
Never have i enjoyed chemistry/alchemy so much! Thank you sir.
Always love the way silver crystal looks
I dont know why this popped up on my youtube but holy shit i cant stop watching. I want one of these in my garage.
I am in a state of wow, old friend. You must have slept along side the cell so it could continue to do it's job eh. I sure don't get over here as much as I would like to or should my friend. I sure enjoyed working with the crystal silver. It melted beautifly and quicker than regular casting shot does. Short as they are I always enjoy my visits with SREETIPS. Thanks a bunch and I hope to be back soon, old friend.
Good to hear from you Dean. Take care.
Wow at the end you can see the reaction happening around the edge looking through the plastic nice
I was using this method and used a glass beaker to watch the crystal silver growing.good work streets
Sreetips, I love your videos. Thank you.
I wish I had someone like this to apprentice under so I could be a crystal-growing chemist!
I keep saying I'm gonna do this...
But we all know I'm content to just watch you. Love your work, bud!
Beautiful silver
Very interesting, no, fascinating 😂 You should play classical music and see how the crystals grow. You’ll probably get some amazing patterns. Would love to see that on your next run.
Could you create a playlist that has the silver process from the start to finish please? I’m a whole lot confused about where you started and ended.
I'm soo glad there's a new video today. I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms😂😂😂😂
Thank you!
Sir you are educating me on a subject worth learning about, and have earned my respect.
Thank you from a new subscriber!
Welcome to my channel!
I'm guessing chemical or mechanical engineer. Good stuff man. I love gazing into the blue crystal bowl 🤩 also the condensor spoon trick 👌🏻
Retired Naval Engineer.
Now you just need to figure out how to turn lead into gold and you will be the envy of thousands of alchemists throughout the centuries!
Very informative video, thank you.
Genuinely fascinating. no idea how you made it to my page but im glad you did.
Thank you!
if you showed this to alchemists from the 1600s they would say: "yeAAAsss bro!" - We were right
Alchemists already knew this process lol, it wasnt something new for them. They were far more advanced than this guy (see philosopher stone, animal stone, universal medicine etc)
This should be common high school chemistry projects that run every semester. Actual realized “value” to the intellectual “value” of education.
Definitely didn’t teach this in my chemistry classes 😢
Like physics' electrical experiments, or construction work (laying bricks or stones to make a tiny wall), or teaching how to exercise each muscle, or how credit cards work?
Reminder that "Education" is designed mainly for obedience conditioning, so your suggestion won't happen anytime soon
@@theyellowarchitect4504 Apathy is the true enemy of education. We can take part in our teachers and educational boards. We can realize common sense. It is when we don’t attend or care that Karen(s) take over. Or… Mrumph… 🤷🏼♂️ like, whatever… somebody else’s problem.
Very interesting sir I'm impressed with your progress and the knowledge of your work.
Thank you!
Nice work... Amazing....
I want my own vat of silver crystalline...
You should add a little beaker from the Muppets in the background shot. He could be your assistant. Meep meep
That's a beautiful process
Another great video thank you 😊
Free pouring from the big beaker to the dump bucket is wild - no filter and nothing to stop ounces of silver just getting dumped out accidentally lol idk
fuckin flawless
Fascinating 😊
Such a beautiful harvest of silver crystals. It’s stunning when you pull the lid to reveal the pure silver crystals and pour off the electrolyte. 👍🏻
Brilliant and beautiful! ❤
A relaxing Wow factor mad happening here. Thank you.
I watched you weighing your silver and you were right about the weight of 1.3 kg. of silver. I noticed a lot of comments saying it was 1.032 but it is 1.3 on the scale not 1,03. I'm in Canada and worked witth scales in metric since 1980. Thanks for the input you put into the video.
I wasn’t sure, I’d have to look.
Great stuff. Thankyou.
Another comment mentioned a different chemical for silver nitrate testing. I wonder if there might not be a test strip you could use?
Never seen silver crystals before 😮Amazing video 👍
Such a Beautiful sight ✨
Love the videos man don’t know much about it but I find it interesting
cool video, lots of fun chemistry techniques im learning as a chemistry major in use here
New subscriber very informative I enjoyed watching
Welcome!
Interesting, very cool. Thanks for the info
I wonder if you can accelerate your crystal growth by adding a real "earth ground" connected to the basket (if you don't have one already)?
I think it would allow a more direct path to ground (earth ground) which would allow for more/larger/constant electron flow from + to earth ground. If you already are connecting your stainless basket to an earth ground, my apologies.
You may already have a ground rod as part of your main power panel. Many main power panels have a copper ground rod driven into the ground or set into the foundation of the house and connected by thick bare copper wire to the power panel. If you have this already, you can simply tap into that ground rod, or add a new one close to your silver cell.
I wonder if this would be a good experiment to try, with before & after tests. Maybe this will accelerate the growth or increase the size of your silver crystals.
I'm assuming you've already found the voltage "sweet spot", but when using a real earth ground, you might be able to increase the voltage and/or amperage to get better results?
That’s sounds interesting. Might make more current flow and speed it up even faster.
mr sreetips may i ask how you keep the copper down below the threshold where it starts to settle out into the silver crystals? is that why you create more silver nitrate solution when doing a second run to help dilute the already copper imbued silver nitrate solution and keep it below that threshold?
and more importantly what do you do with the solution youve used twice, do you keep diluting it or do you use some chemist magic to drop the silver out of solution keeping the copper behind to dispose of?
I never use the electrolyte more than twice. I add fresh silver nitrate for the second run. I cement the silver out of the used electrolyte on copper.
Hope your family, and wife are doing well, you too. 🤙🏾
We are doing very well, thank you.
This is a great video thank you!
Breaking BADass of, Ag. whaaat thanks for the passing of the Au. Love learning from you. Because this is gold... If you want to learn.
Beautiful video! Which safety precautions need to be made when working with these kind of corrosive materials? What (processes in this video) are critical safety hazards and what could be the consequences of improper care and precautions?
All of them
Could a process like this work for iron as well? I just watched a video on how some of the most expensive Japanese swords in the world are made and they basically need pure iron, but they use a kilm instead. Might be worth making and contacting Japanese sword makers, just a random idea. Very cool and well explained video!
thanks for sharing this. someone shared this with me and I really like that you addressed all of the electrochemistry basics in your explanation. Could you share how you know it is 999 Fine Silver?
I’ve had the silver analyzed several times. I use strict controls to ensure high purity for each batch. The samples I sent in came back three nines every time, except once. I ran a batch of silver crystal back through the cell a second time and sent it in for ICP analysis. That came back greater than five nines fine. That’s better than 99,999 parts per one hundred thousand pure silver.
@@sreetipsyour controls really are in place and that's great to hear. If I do end up doing a study of my own - I'll keep you posted on my progress. Thanks so much for the knowledge share.
“Jesse, we need to cook….silver!”🥸
Breaking Glad o.o
"Yeah Mr. White! Yeah alchemy!" 😂
Gooood evening from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great night!
Goooood evening!
Hi sreetips love the videos mate here from Australia, quick question so the granulated silver is from refining carat scrap?
Correct. I use sterling silver to refine gold. I recover the silver and run it through my silver cell. Then put it away and forget about it.
Wow. Interesting operation. Looks dangerous 😂
Beautiful silver crystals!!!
Will you be melting some of them into a four 9’s fine silver bar?
I could do that, if I decide to sell some silver. But right now, I’m buying silver, not selling.
9 👍's up sreetips thank you for sharing 😅
As someone that's used methamphetamine for 18 years (1 year clean currently) as I watch this process can't help to grin and giggle to myself "we'll take this over and set it on some low heat..and dry this off" (15.34)
You're incredibly talented and I watched from start to finish. Very interesting.
Meth wasn’t your problem. Your problem was in your mind, in the inability to leave it alone.
@@sreetips I agree with you 100% I'm obsessive by nature and lacked direction.
Me too!
@@sreetips you're extremely intelligent, you videos hold my attention from start to finish, that's very rare 🙏🏻
Thank you
What's the orange fumes from dissolving silver in acid on the heat. I've seen many different orange fumes from dissolving stuff in acid. But it always seem to be a different type of chemical.
Wonder how the crystals would form if you played music to them or put ultrasonic vibrations through the electrolyte as you were growing the crystals.. love the vid mate
Now I am curious how to determine that the copper saturation as below the 60g per letter threshold. Do you know of any testing method to determine the copper concentration? Maybe a 10 ml sample in a test tube, remove the silver as silver chloride and filter it out, then cement out the copper and weigh it. Multiply weight by 100 and if it’s less than 60 the solution is still stable for refining purposes. That’s what I would do but there has to be an easier way.
I’ve used a spectrophotometer. But it was never very high concentration of copper. So now I just never run the same electrolyte more than twice. And I always add silver nitrate to the second run. This practice has kept me out of trouble for thirteen years. I’ve had the silver analyzed several times. Comes back three nines every time. Except once, I ran the silver crystal back through the cell with fresh electrolyte a second time. Had them do an ICP assay. Came back greater than five nines fine. That’s 99,999 parts per one hundred thousand pure elemental silver.
Three nines is industry standard for pure silver.
I recall the 5 9s fine silver video. That was an impressive result.
That's some forbidden Rice, my guy.
I follow you from Aswan, I am Egyptian Thank you for everything you provide. You are honest and provide every detail I want to discuss with you something similar to this You are currently working on a metal farming operation . I want to say whether metal or metal oxides grow in soil through it Substitute the solution dissolved in it Someone I spoke to before I followed you, and I saw what was mentioned above, he said that there are types of soil that contain all types of minerals. What do you think of this?
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Omnia, I don’t have experience working with soil.
Different soils will contain different amounts of metals, minerals, and organic matter. The best soil for growing plants will contain trace amounts of various metals, and small amounts of minerals of various kinds, but will be mostly organic matter.
As far as "metal farming" - I'm not sure what you mean. It is impossible to grow metal like you grow plants. The only way that metal is present is if it has been introduced, or if it's been there since the Creation.
if you had a glass/transparent lid for the cell ...could set up a time lapse, as the crystal/plating out process would be fascinating to watch in time lapse. youtube gold right there.
It gets obscured by condensate.
I understood that the sliver gets depleted as the cell works but if sliver is growing in the cell what happens to the amount of liquid or another words does it just evaporate ? I'm not sure how to as my question.
A little will evaporate, but it's just the vehicle for the reaction, it doesn't take part in it
Two depletions are going on simultaneously. The physical level of the electrolyte decreases due to evaporation of the liquid from the electrolyte. And, the amount of silver present in the electrolyte declines as the cell operates. It gets plated out on the cathode along with the rest of the silver ions that are passing through the anode filter and into the electrolyte. That’s why I add more silver nitrate for the second run. To keep the silver concentration high. Higher silver nitrate concentration, higher conductivity. Fast crystal growth. But the slimes in the filter slow it back down. I have changed filter mid-run to increase the speed of silver growth, and it works.
What would be the startup cost of something like this to outsource all the materials you would need to run the silver cell
I have a video “build a silver cell from scratch” and included some cost data.
Found your videos out of pure curiosity and didn't realize you could grow silver. After all the ingredients used to grow the crystals and the electricity, is this profitable or just a fun hobby?
This is my hobby. And yes, it is highly profitable. But I dont take paper dollars. I get paid in silver (and gold). If I get any paper then I immediately convert it to metal. Don’t want to get stuck holding a stack of worthless paper.
dude is creating a whole new universe
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I have a quick question, if you dissolve copper in the nitric acid solution, the electrolyte will crystalize copper instead of silver, knowing in advance that the anode has both copper and silver and gold for example.
As long as condition are properly maintained in the cell, only the silver will deposit on the cathode. The copper will remain in solution in the electrolyte. The gold, being insoluble, will get trapped in the anode filter, and I can recover it later when I process the filters.
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been watching your videos now for a while. this was an interesting batch. you said it looked like wool, i was going to comment on some sort of moss. it also seemed quieter. usually it still sounds like youre scraping metal. this almost seemed " fluffy"
It’s different for each refining. Some parameter is altered slightly and these differences are the result.
But it’s still high purity silver, just a different texture.
It will be interesting to see what the weight of the slime / Dacron anode filters will be.
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sorry for stupid question im not chemist, but did he grow silver from just the chemicals or he purified some silver from lets say 2kg impure to 1.3kg pure silver? is this profitable? thanks in advance
I’m not a chemist either. I use sterling to refine gold. Silver is a by-product of my gold refining. I recover the silver and run it through my silver cell. For every 100g of impure silver I add to the anode basket, I’ll harvest 98g of high purity silver from the cell. No new silver is being created out of thin air.