Pepto Bismol as a fire assay lead replacement?
Vložit
- čas přidán 5. 04. 2022
- In fire assays you essentially dissolve the rock with a flux and use lead to collect the precious metals into a bead. In This video I try using an over the counter bismuth compound as a non toxic alternative.
Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea, fire assey -- Pepto bismol~
Criminally underrated comment. You got a heart but deserve a pin.
that ad jingle has been burned into my brain
They need to make this! New packaging, the works! And, they definitely need Cody!!!
Just don't try to fire assay any of those previous things.
Also death if you end up drinking a whole bottle potentially.
I genuinely did not expect the “layer” above the Bismuth droplet to look so crystalline and clear.
This is genius.
You dislike the stuff that gets uploaded by my fingers clicking upload? Are you just a h8er boi? I say see you l8er, boi. Don't watch the stuff that gets uploaded by my fingers clicking upload anymore. Your dislikes are damaging my good good GOOD reputation. I am a superstar, dear ran
pretty sure that was the silica sand forming glass
@@vaelophisnyx9873 yeah I think he made a layer of borosilicate glass
@@Hailfire08 Where did the boron come from?
@@filonin2 From the borax
As tom from explosion and fire once said: bismuth is just lead for people who fear death
Wow! You could even see the gold bead "blink" once all the bismuth was gone. Very impressed.
The droplet slowly cools below the freezing temperature, getting in a super-cooled state. Something kicks off the freezing reaction and the whole thing freezes rapidly, giving off heat (Solidifying is an exothermic reaction) i.e. the droplet going from bright to dimm to bright. All the Bismuth was already absorbed by the crucible by the point we see the little gold bead :)
@@thompsonschwabbel6622 Or you could just use the technical term: recalescence
@@Muonium1 Ugh. You use big wurd!
@@brianreddeman951 or you could just say: gold blick
@@brianreddeman951 I have the feeling you replied to the wrong comment here. But yeah, stay safe.
No bullshit, No clickbaits, Just pure passion, We need more people like You, Mr. Cody. Interesting as always. Best wishes.
Seriously, Cody is a National Treasure.
The meow at 2:02 is everything
Is this BUDDY??
@@NickCorin Right, I hope it is. Seems like Cody would've said something if he came back, but maybe not said anything if he didn't....
@@NickCorin That'd be great to hear.
He also burned the shit out his finger 😂😂 played it off tho you can hear his flesh burn 🥴😂
I remember watching the super long process of extracting bismuth from pepto bismol by nilered and Cody just puts it into a furnace and still get relatively pure bismuth
After everything you’ve been through and done, thank you truly for continuing to share with us. Personally, I learn something new nearly every time I watch. I wish you all the love and good luck I have to offer. Please stay safe and take care of yourself friend!
Edit: I’m so happy to see so many in agreement and grateful for the likes! I apologize for delay in response. I feel this may be disrespectful for me to share… Our dear friend lost an amazing dude, and very close friend along the way. Remember to love and show appreciation to those around you. I hope all of you will stay safe and take care as well!
What has he "been through"? I'm seriously curious...
@@friartuck103 Life happens man, Life
Did I miss something?
@@FyreFiend Life happens man, Life
@@friartuck103 it's life. It happened
I’m so proud of Cody for being such an accomplished scientist and chemist with only his left hand. ✊
Did he lose a hand? Wth have I missed?
@@rampagent9226 filming with one hand...
Never forget the Mushroom Experiment of 2018.. RIP Hand
@@rampagent9226 Accidentally touched some maths one day
@@luminoustedium oh god why would you remind me of that traumatic experience? My hand is still burnt from the calculus. I forgot to wear gloves that day.
Not surprised that bismuth metal works as a collector metal, what did surprise me is being able to just throw Pepto tablets into the crucible and have them break down into metal like that. That is so much easier than Nile Reds way of getting bismuth metal from those pills lol.
All jokes aside though, that is brilliant and probably way safer than lead.
Well, Nile Red was doing it chemically. In other words, the gentle way. This is more like using a sledgehammer.
You ever swing a sledge? Sledge hammers are sick!
@@zerumsum1640 dont use chemicals for the job of a sledgehammer
Please do a longer form video explaining why this works!
This.
Yes please!
I completely agree. I think I know why this works, but would love Cody to explain it.
But I think it works exactly the same way as using lead as an accumulator metal. Pepto contains metallic bismuth in it, so when it’s heated to high temps like this, the organic compounds (binders) burn away leaving just the metal. Then the process is exactly the same as cupelling with lead without the hazards of using lead.
Pepto has bismuth metal in it
@@uspockdad6429 precisely.
Ok, that's hilarious that you just decided "ya know, im gonna use this random over-the-counter medicine, without any refinement, in place of lead."
And it just *works*.
Bravo Cody
I love the sheer joy in Cody's voice at 2:45 when he realized he could safely film it.
I wouldn't call it "safe" but it's probably less hazardous. A respirator is still highly advisable in this situation.
2:03 you can simultaneously hear the hissing of Cody’s skin on the searing hot metal and a cat “meow” in the background. Brilliant!
good job sonny Jim ....never thought using Bismuth subsalicylate to act as a collector metal..... nice
Getting overly excited Jeff?! Yeah! YOU'RE GONNA GET WeT!
@Ask Jeff Williams Good to see you here. So c'mon, LET'S GO!
Let's get those monkers!
@@dionh70 yep me and Slim love watching Cody do his thing
@@scrappydoo7887 Oh Yeah !!!!
i love the excitement when he said he could watch it, finally able to see the cool reaction without worry of poisoning himself
The cat was going to ask a question but I told her it's none of her bismuth. What a great idea!
What
@@GaiusCaligula234 It's a pun. The phrase is normally "none of [her] business" but Cat replaced the word "business" with "bismuth" because they sound similar and it's funny.
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You figure out how the frog works but it dies in the process.
@@General12th The sadistic part of me loves pretending to not understand a joke, just to force someone to explain it. And then I can say "huh, that doesn't seem all that funny, but okay"
@1:50 that is some of the best looking glass you have ever made... including your attempts with Grant and HTME
What a creative idea. Did you come up with this or did you hear about it somewhere? Great bedtime bonus.
I don’t know of anyone else doing this.
@@theCodyReeder Some of your ideas are so crazy I think there's no way you could come up with all of them (I said crazy, but ingenious would also be appropriate).
@@theCodyReeder Would mercury work better?
@@bobweiram6321 I don't know about working better, but the cost would be way higher and it'd be way more dangerous
@@bobweiram6321 the whole point is to use something nontoxic instead of lead. mercury completely defeats the purpose.
Well that's pretty awesome. One still needs a furnace, crucibles, and all the other accessories, but this method of using a commonly available product to perform the process in a non-toxic way is a really impressive discovery.
Certainly not a discovery as Bismuth's use in fire assays is fairly well known but this is a delightfully creative use of a regular household product that has a side-benefit of not being (as) toxic, a *very* Cody setup.
@@Fenriswaffle I assumed Cody didn't discover the chemical principle, rather I meant that he "discovered" that this realtively cheap, commonly-available source of bismuth will work for hobbyist purposes.
Cody, you are a creative genius
Nice. Yeah it having no lead oxide fumes is a huge benefit.
Always love your videos Cody, brother
The excitement on Cody's voice at the end gave me extra years of life
I love your videos. They're always legitimately interesting and based on genuine learning.
Now that is some amazing stuff, watching it change color so suddenly was great...
I love that little flash when it solidified.... That's so cool, I could watch that all day. LoL
I click the “like” button before I even watch cody’s stuff now. Love when you post stuff!!
Incredible. Such a terrific no BS channel. A rare treat these days❤️🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿😁
Now this is the type of video I love seeing from this channel. Please keep it up Cody I really miss seeing more videos from you.
Idk why in hell I was not suscribed to Cody I just realized today I've been thinking 🤔 why I hadn't seen any updates from him... I know I've been subscribed since I was a kid, I love this channel so much, I admire and appreciate Cody :) salutes from México
Cody, you made my day. Just raw passion for applied science.
Yet another impressive moment from Cody's Lab!
Your videos are what I wish all of CZcams was like thank you
Hi Cody! Can I just stop by and tell you, that I love you? You are amazing and inspiring. You always make me smile and my day better!
love the chemistry/metallurgy vids
Wow, this is one of those things that you never think of and the someone like Cody does it and it's like dang, that's so simple how are we only now getting to this point.
Bismuth and lead share a lot of the same properties in terms of alloys and melting points. Bismuth was even often confused for lead because of the similar density and melting point.
But the thing they don't share is the toxicity.
The only thing is that lead is the thirty-sixth most abundant element while bizmuth is the sixty-fifth most abundant.
So while there is less of it, I still think my following statement applies because you have made assays safer in terms of resources used.
You deserve a Nobel in chemistry my guy,
Awesome work Cody.
2:45 to 2:50 the sound of pure joy and elation fills my soul
OMG! Your videos make me wish I paid more attention in science classes!
That's the tiniest gold flash I've ever seen, I love it.
That is the most satisfying thing I've seen in a long time. Cody's enthusiasm is priceless!!! ✌️😎✨💚
Always love the ingenuity coming from your channel ✌️
Ideas like this are why I love Cody's Lab
CONGRATULATIONS ON 2 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!!!! You rock!!!
That's actually pretty cool that you can film and watch it now without the lead fumes.
I mentioned using bismuth for fire assays at one of the mines I worked at in order to avoid lead and all the permitting requirements and they looked at me like I'm crazy.
Well now you have proof, go show them
This is why corporations should fail. They are so stuck in the "way its always been done" and the bureaucracy of people's jobs that are solely to deal with paperwork such as permits and licenses... I'm not one of those communists freaks posing as liberals. But, there's something deeply wrong with the situation OP described. They don't know the work, they just follow the steps they were trained to do, and nothing else.
be careful, cause the Feds will be on you again if you start making suspiciously large purchases of Pepto Bismol! :)
The freds
But why though
...is Pepto bismol actually used to synthesize something?
@@startedtech yes
@@NIEMNL is it crack ?
Once again, Cody pulls off something cool😎
The cat felt the burn when you touched the bead lol. You two are connected.
This is why I subscribed so long ago. Your understanding of chemistry is just awesome
Not even just his understanding of chemistry, but his understanding of the scientific process! If he has an idea, he turns it into a hypothesis and attempts to disprove it!
Cody is such an inspiration.
I prefer the Pepto Bismol liquid. Your experiment worked great.
Awesome job Cody
What a neat trick! Get the lead out if you don't need it.
One nitpick, I would guess bismuth fumes are less toxic than lead fumes because lead is pretty bad whereas you can eat Pepto Bismol, but don't overdo it. Most fumes are at least somewhat bad for you. Whatever's left is probably outweighed by using electric rather than gas heating though.
Bismuth is quite benign to the environment and our health thankfully.
@@416Rival Form matters. Fumes are usually somewhat bad for you even if they consist of stuff that would be harmless to eat. Lungs are picky like that.
your creativity always amazes me, you come up with solutions to things that most people wouldn't imagine! always makes fascinating content
Pretty neat. bismuth has a lot of potential for non-toxic alternative chemistry to replace lead.
Love this length and format of video Cody. I’m always up for a chicken hole base video… but these short style are really cool
Well ain't that something! Very cool!
Hopefully this can help reduce the use of lead, especially were it is polluting the environment.
That’s awesome. I’ve always shied away from lead and mercury for processing due to toxicity. Mercury is easy to circumvent. Lead was the other roadblock. Thanks.
Brilliant Cody
Can watch the gold and have children later!! Great job Cody!
This was really interesting, thanks, Cody!
When the bead shines over I get the sweetest dopamine release every time
Cody, you have to re-do this just use powdered bismuth. I’m curious to know if the savings on propane is greater than the cost of using something more expensive than lead. It would be a great experiment!
Brilliant idea!
This is extremely good info! If you did some recovery efficiency figures for different prescious metals this could become a standard technique! Hats off!
this is brilliant cody
you made some nice glass that was really clear
No lead fumes to worry about, and any nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach and diarrhea are gone too, brilliant!
Cool experiment.
Love the videos, keep them coming.
You're the man, Cody!
2:01 cutest meow ever perhaps
Now this is why I subbed to you Cody this is fantastic.
That's awesome! Great idea!
Wow! Awsome! Keep it up Cody.
Simply brilliant!
As someone who's recently been looking into my own little kiln set up for my prospecting hobbies this information is fantastic, Though I read a bit about bismuth I would never have considered pep for a safe and easy alternative lmao. Great content !
That is really cool honestly a neat little thing perfect for a fire assay
Cody, your glee that it worked, at the end, and your reason why? 100% my reaction, and what I'm expecting when I tell my dad about this. Cupelling, except for the toxic heavy metal fumes, is the best way to recover some gold he has trapped in a few metallurgically annoying places around the house. Yet again, you've answered a real-life question of mine (because I'm apparently a bit of a weirdo :) )
Wow super cool Cody
Amazing! I miss these kinds of videos
LOOL omg ur happiness when u realized there's no lead fumes
it looked like a little tiny star when emitted its tiny coronal mass ejection.
2:37
That was actually pretty cool
lead fumes are clearly bad, but why are bismuth fumes better?
Bismuth doesn’t accumulate and cause nervous system and reproductive harm like lead does.
Lead is just terrible for you, even if bismuth isn't good it's so much better. Even very small exposure to lead leads to long term problems
Bismuth just has really low toxicity for a heavy metal. Why do think they put it in pills (hint, it is not to kill people)?
@@superemma1785 I don’t know of any negative health effects from bismuth. Which is crazy to think about. It’s so close to lead on the periodic table, and in most ways acts a lot like lead, yet it’s so much safer for organic life.
@@uspockdad6429 I mean, being safer than boiling lead isn't exactly the highest bar there is...
That is BRILLIANT !
Bismuth! How ingenious!
Super cool stuff.
You do some cool stuff
This was awesome!
Awesome buddy thanks for sharing
That was very cool!
You are an f-ing genius Cody
Great idea! 👍✌
I miss your recovering precious metals series.
So intrested as usual man.👍🏻🌹
That was awesome!
You brilliant wonderful mad genius!!!
That was pretty cool!
Oh dang, this is some real neat alternative chemistry for fire assay! Always wondered about the dangers of using Lead and any reliable alternatives, and I feel like perhaps chemists won't ask too many questions if you buy Pepto in bulk. Might ask if you eat Taco Bell a bit too frequently, though!
damn, never would have thought of that.