Dissolving Gold in Mercury 

I loved that part, hilarious 50 bucks well spent

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Ike Zhang ii

So said Ramsay to Theon

science!

that's very specific

yeha we fucking heard that part you don't have to quote it again do you think we don't have ears or some shit.

He didn't need to tell it, but you didn't need to reply either tbh.

I didn't need to watch the video, but I did, I didn't need to read the comments, but I did, I didn't need to type this comment, but I did. No one needs to reply, but they will. The joy of being a free human being.

Amen

Do you have a PhD in mercury?

codys Body is half mercury half beeswax ;D

hmm interesting. Thanks for the warning!

But wouldn't the melting process evaporate the mercury away, or is that the point of the warning?

yes the gold will emit mercury vapor as it is melted which can be a problem if you are not expecting it.

Ur using muscular force to type a comment.thats science too

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I'm analyzing all of your comments....more science......

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The video I saw in both channels.

R u a robot?

Ha

Actually this is how you create the philosophers stone.

5:16 not 50$..

Law of Conservation of Mass

It didn't destroyed, you can take the gold back out

He got back 0.25 mg of gold... barely anything was "destroyed"

Well historically mercury was used to extract pure gold from the ore that miners found during various gold rushes throughout the centuries. So it's not a random selection but a very appropriate one given the history of these elements together

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@@lahirusankalpa wat

@@amerikanskispy7842 its still used for that at artisan mines in South America and in Africa. Not saying legally but it is

no when i clean my room i stuff it under my bed. first reply

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so school destroy your life?

@@yenvan3155 is that even a question?

Organic Mercury is highly poisonous. But elemental Mercury can be handled. The problem is you can not tell them apart by looks.

@@indridcold8433 "..you can't tell them apart by looks." I'd say a metallic fluid and a clear liquid are easy to tell apart by looks.

Used to. Now they changed to other material since Mercury was proven to be toxic and in fact blamed for so many humam maladies.

@@chooqi7 silver amalgams are still used

I ain't going to dentist just to suck a mercury my whole life

@@j_respect5948 Dentists don't use mercury anymore. They use gold, silver, or most commonly, tooth-coloured composites (resin).

Yeah, they are insanely thin.

Just how actually thin are they?

Micrometers thick.

ender_scythe I've heard they're in the realm of a couple hundred atoms thick

If you were to lay one on your fingertip, it would conform to the shape of your fingerprint.

I hope ur not one of the brainwashed today handing out poison for convid.

Yeah he also inspires me and I want a become a scientist just like nile

MrFujinko so many great comments today from Nile -sock - using a toaster - doing it 23 more times 10/10

It also lets me cover smaller topics that dont require more in depth explanations.

So this is where the shorts idea started.

Let’s just hope for the best. I hope both of them will get a happy ending:(

They will amalgamate trust me. And then Cinna will walk around collecting others and amalgamate with them too

seaweed oh my sensei

​@@seaweed5269 Yeah but what about the platinum? what will happen to it? since phos arms are made of both of them and i think mercury doesnt react with platinum so im really confused on what will happen

What

...and even gold fillings if I recall correctly. Gold amalgam fillings, I think dentists had to cut back on it because it was a risk to the patient due to the fact that gold is valuable. P.S. I know this is a 5 year old comment...and this is a 5 year old video.

you are og

still watching. Cool to see he's on 3.5M now

4,630,000 ish subs

They heated it up because mercury melts at a much lower temperature than gold, the gold would melt and the mercury would evaporate away. The problem was a lot of miners suffered from mercury poisoning.

Thanks!

Nilered contact me I have a lots of things give to you . Give me your WhatsApp number.my English so week I can not express my view and thought on murcery. Trust me .

@@gorakhayurveda4387 wtf

I think I will keep doing it! I am going to try to do 1 short and 1 long one per week. We shall see if i am able to do that though.

sarowie; Dude!... I'm also an engineer (Electrical), so I know very well just how *stupid* we are, but you don't have to tell the whole world! On a serious note, I got REALLY scared when you said you were going to keep doing shorter videos (with the way youtube works now, high quality, long but infrequent videos are going the way of the dodo), but doing both would be *SO* great, if you could actually keep up with such a hectic schedule. Either way, I'll always keep watching. A shorter time allowance does restrict what content you can put out, but it doesn't intrinsicly change the quality of that content (as this video so nicely shows). Your content is good content, and I'm convinced that will never change! Also, I just want to say that, even as an EE, I still find all of your longer videos very well narrated and logically laid out, which makes them quite easy to understand. Sure, at the start I had ZERO knoweldge of organic chemistry, so it was really confusing to understand the 'jargon' (like washing, drying, salting out, etc) and why the reaction mechanisms proceeded the way that they do. But, literally, it just takes a couple of hours of googling (at most) to learn the terminology, the basic funtional groups, types of reactions, the most common electrophiles and nucleophiles, as well as how to draw and read the structures and the mechanisms. After that, simply watching your videos (and reading the source literature for the reaction, if available) taught me enough to be able to follow everything that you do. Obviously, if it's the first time that I've seen a specific reaction, then I won't know anything about it; but I think that just makes the video even more interesting! It really doesn't impair my understanding of the content, since the narration is always good enough to explain what the reaction does, why he is using it and (if he has enough time in the video) how it works as well. Keep up the great work Nile, Your videos are Chemical Perfection incarnate!

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@@NileRed sir I have some thing give to you pls co tact me.my English so week I can not express our emotion. But I send to you a powder you examine on lab and get result then call me but how I send to you .

Cyanide is harmless. Just carbon and nitrogen, which are everywhere anyways.

Really interesting misconception

Ah, i see you're man of culture as well

Na, bruh it's a jojo reference

@@tejasdixit4417 Jojo sucks. I rest my case.

@@anastasia_852 lol, this was so incomprehensible to me, for a sec, i thought it wasnt english. Tho its better to add a 'for me' at the end

Haha I get it

"I was a little impatient" story of Nilered's life.

We're all a little impatient

am i late to the party?

im 21, i have silver colored fillings from when i was a kid. is it likely they are mercury amalgams?

I play with it all the time. It is much funner than eating paint chips. Though the paint chips were sweet and stayed crispy in milk. I am just fine. My mum says she feels safe with me living in the basement.

@I'llFuckingCircumciseYour MicroPenis Yes, I touched it with my bare hands. One must make certain to wash your hands very thoroughly before touching anything else or any other part of yourself.

Elemental liquid mercury is Not absorbed by the skin & it is used in over 300,000 medicines in India. It's not Poisonous. But is swallowed over there & they tend to live long long lives. Mercury oxide is poisonous. Sadly western medicine is bit behind the times with this type of Mercury.

Watch " Sadhguru about mercury metal " no doubt there are many other videos that show you how to, amounts to & recipes & as elemental Mercury devours pure gold, you've just seen Alchemy. In India it is called Quick Silver. Prehaps you have heard of that.

@@nettyabbott5412 Western medicine has been behind in a few aspects for a long time. But the medical scientists are slowly waking up. I remember when acupuncture was considered witchcraft.

ikr? I'm an undergraduate in chemistry and while we handle all sorts of weird (and way more toxic) compounds, we only ever came in contact with Hg-salts and never got a chance to experiment with it's weirdness. Many d-block metals are actually really weird and interesting, even if it doesn't seem like it on the first glance.

Amalgam is very rarely used in dentistry any more. The effects of long term exposure to mercury were too worrisome.., Epoxies are most often used for fillings.

@@neilolif thanks We didn't use amalgam. We used Composite filling

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interesting indeed

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Yep!

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Mr Rishi The Cookie thought is was Cody's at first.. With those arrows

SandPox dem arrows. Cody'sLab should copyright it :P Jk

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He should make some 4-AcO-DMT

lohphat It will never be truly non-toxic. Mercury metal isn't the worst, only vapours are seriously toxic, you can drink it and be fine apart from what gets into your lungs. But an amalgam will always emit some vapourand be potentially hazardous. Edit: As some people correctly stated below, none amount of mercury is truly non-problematic, yet one must remember that very small amounts of mercury will not cause too much problems and may be considered safe like the minute amounts released by an amalgam. Probably.

Martin of Gliwice whether they're right, or they're wrong, for many years dentists have been sticking mercury amalgam fillings into people's mouths.

John Ratko Yep. I have one. No prohhhhhblahh... çcv&v'' I'm fine.

It depends on what you mean by 'toxic'. If you're like most people and are only interested in life-threatening effects or very large, sudden and easily observed decreases in mental capacity, then mercury really isn't all that toxic in its elemental form. You could get mercury fillings in all of your teeth, dunk you entire hand in mercury every single day and break a fluorescent light bulb about once every week (without doing anything other than opening a door or window so the vapours can slowly escape) and you will very likely never see any of the effects that you're worried about. If, however, you are like me (luckily, very unlikely) and are concerned by even low levels of cognitive disfunction, then... you're prettt much screwed. There is NO recognised minimum exposure level that is 'safe', since mercury is an accumulative biotoxin and also *VERY* difficult, if not impossible, to safely remove from the brain. Basically, your brain will actively absorb any mercury that happens to be in your bloodstream and effectively 'cement' it into neurons distributed throughout your brain.

problematic are mercury compounds like methylmercury and mercury salts like the mercury nitrate he produced. methylmercury accumulates in the food chain, the top predators get the most of it... like humans who like to eat predatory fish like tuna. If somebody fears dental amalgam, he should never ever eat wild fish from the ocean. ;) and mercury nitrate is the stuff which was used to make felt from fur and caused the mad hatter disease. The real cause was non-existent workplace safety. Toxic chemicals? no problem, the workers will breathe them away. then there is dimethylmercury, that stuff is so toxic that it will kill you if you touch it with or without rubber gloves... this is the scary stuff that makes everybody nervous. And because "dimethyl" is such a complicated word, everybody reads it as "mercury" and that is why everybody is scared of elementary mercury. mercury(II)oxide was used as kathode in mercury-zinc batteries, these were a problem because they ended in the trash, getting burned or dumped into the landfills. elementary mercury is such a nice toy, you can play with the droplets and there is no need to fear its toxicity. You can have a big blob of it in your hand and feel its weight. Just like you can do it with a piece of lead. Lead is also toxic... And now some people think "oh no, the mercury vapors"... yes, mercury vapors are also toxic, but they are heavy too! If you have a open glass of mercury, the vapors will sit on top of the surface and keep the rest from vaporizing... if the vapors escape, they fall down on the floor and if the floor is porous, it falls into or though it. It could be harmful for ants in your basement. Some may think that there was a chinese king who died of mercury poisoning and he had a lot of elementary mercury as artificial rivers and ponds. Thats right, but there were these quacks who made an elixir of life out of cinnabar (HgS), they promised immortality and made him drink the kool-aid. The fear of mercury can be so big, that some people have tried to remove it with chelating agents and got in big trouble caused by the side-effects. A chelation therapy removes not only that scary mercury, but it also removes other elements/minerals like calcium which then can cause life-threatening heart problems or spasms of the vocal cords (you suffocate and die)... And don't believe anything what i said, do your own research because i am just a random person on the internet. But everything i said can be used to search with google for some trustworthy sources.

I wish there was a planet that you could say it's from. I just can't imagine what it could be.

JAIL

Jason Patterson Actually, it should be called a non-Newtonian fluid.

Actually actually, it's called a colloid.

actually actually actually actually, how the hell do you even get "lolsquid" out of solid and liquid?

Actually actually actually actually actually we need more actually

l(From Liquid) ol(From sOLid) s(Solid) quid(liQUID)

I just read ch 93 and came here. Nice.

I will! I will do it with aluminum, sodium/potassium, silver, etc.

NileRed, Aluminium + mercury has been done many time before, though maybe see if aluminium foil (the thinnest type you can find) will do anything similar to the gold effect. Also, might be interesting to see if NaK will dissolve gold, silver or other "unexpected" metals.

I especially would like to see it done with copper. Also, what would happen if you amalgamated it with cobalt or nickel (apparently iron is resistant to it) and held a magnet to it?

i'm waiting for platinum and osmium

cobalt and nickel are also resistant to it though it does give me an idea for an even heavier ferrofluid.

We are both here for the same reason. Hahaha

no problem. Gold leafs are not that expensive and Gold is safe to eat. I mean: Except the part where you belive a random online retailer that he his delivering pure "safe to eat" gold. (on the other side: it is easier to get 24 karat Gold so thin then to find anything like it. An you only want to eat a few leafs - so you could give it try)

LimaVictor; Also, clean the surface of the gold REALLY well before hand and preferrably drink an antiacid as well. Yes, I know gold doesn't react with the HCl in your stomach, but gold *IS* still a pretty toxic heavy metal (when absorbed as a soluble compound) and the idea of eating even the microscopic quantities of water soluble gold chlorides, that will form on the surfaces, still freaks me the fuck out!

In the Netherlands there's actually a booze (Goldstrike) that contains small gold flakes.

Timo; I've actually seen that as well! I can't remember exactly what brand it was (Probably not the Dutch one), but it looked really cool and I remember my dad telling me that it was real, solid gold pieces floating in the bottle, which blew my mind at the time.

Yes, it's actually real gold but really thin flakes, so it amounts to almost nothing. It's cool because the gold is pretty inert to the conditions in your organs, and as such harmless. You basically shit pure gold flakes afterwards. :-P

tyler rip

dunno, amalgamating into each other sounds sexy

htomerif; Lol, I totally feel your pain brother! Boric oxide is a bitch...

Also it would be nice to know how to weed out the pesky boron-10 isotope. :3

+htomerif gas-diffusion/centrifugation with Borontriflouride? basically like they do with uranium :D

I'm thinking more along the lines of a Hall-effect thruster with a beam divergence magnetic field somewhere in the exhaust stream to separate the isotopes. My gas centrifuge is in the shop. -.-