Extracting pure silver from a coin 

That sounds like a backhanded compliment lol

@@briann517 i honestly didn’t mean it to be, he has gotten better as you do over 6 years

I guess I know what you mean, he sounds more confident now but it’s all good content ❤️

@Big Cat Little Lion I mean this is a chemistry channel not a coin collecting channel. Furthermore destroying a coin is not illegal as long as the intent isn't for fraud or selling the raw materials. The value in the video is from the education aspect.

@Big Cat Little Lion oxygen is a very valuable thing, yet it is being wasted on you.

I like your funny words magic man

Back then: explains things like s college post grad student. Now: lets poke it with a knife itll be fun lol

Thank you very much. That means a lot!

***** This is basically the same method I use and I've sent samples for testing to the national standards lab and the (core drill) samples come back 99.8-99.9% pure

Just cause ur slow doesn't mean nr is bad.

Adam Defibaugh Yeah, Nurd’s voice modulator always bugged me. I also prefer Nile’s videos because he’s more interested in accessibility and aiming for a wider layman audience, with his reaction diagrams and general presentation; Nurd is clearly intended for an audience who is already fairly educated in chemistry. I mean, check the comments on basically any of Nile’s videos, and take a shot whenever someone says something like “You’re the one who got me interested in chemistry” or “Your videos have been a godsend in OChem class” or “I honestly don’t understand any of this, so why am I still watching?”; does Nurd get these sorts of comments?

ditto

+Osley Sallent haha that would be very sad indeed

Silver dollars weren't made in the 1820's.

@@sonnydelight5737 not true look it up

@@sonnydelight5737 they had both silver eagles and gold ones back than sir

@@chloehennessey6813 - I'll give you one billion dollars for a genuine 1820's silver dollar. Surely you can use this statement as evidence. Then track me down to collect your billion dollars. Fool

max3zizo ... First of all, why do you assume I'm a typical "chinese lady?" Second, I have silver and gold of my own bought from my hard earned money, why would I want someone else's - it's not as satisfying. Third, this is a chemical reaction video, so shut the fuck up and let me appreciate it. Thank you, have a nice day.

+EJ Lee I agree

damn dont know what this convo is about but english isnt your first language. I can see why someone might have thot you were Chinese...

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@@SavageZebra67 uhhh they speak and write English perfectly fine, and it’s “thought” idiot

I work in an electroplating facility and get to strip copper parts in nitric acid most of my day, it gets mixed in with chrome fragments and creates a galaxy effect in the blue. Looks so gorgeous

I am glad you enjoy them! They range from gen chem to some specific organic chemistry, so you will slowly understand more as you learn more!

lol

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@@Taurus388 commented 1 month ago. Continuing the train. Don't dissapoint us youtube.

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What? Nitric acid is easy to find.

500ml of concentrated nitric acid is only $40

@@bitterlemonboy in the EU you need a (hard to acquire) license for all concentrations above 3%, because nitric acid can be used to make explosives.

@@Larry1302 What? You don't need a certificate.. You can make it yourself.

@@Larry1302 So can hydrogen peroxide, as well as other easy to obtain chemicals. Stupid bureaucrats.

did you know that when i did a comparative study of the stars that almost all star constellations had roughly the same name ... a very interesting one was the star algol which is medusa in greek , algol in chinese means pile of corpses .... that one was strange , but i would equate the story of medusa to a pile of corpses because when people seen medusa they were turned to stone , in an ancient masonic ceremony the initiate would go into a cave and chop off the head of medusa the gorgon which was a symbolic story of how the constellation Pegasus was born , pegasus was born from when medusas head was removed from her body in the stars , the ancient peoples used metaphors and lacked adjective for star stories so just told stories about the stars in the manner of legend and religion , whats interesting though is that certain things like that could be used to trace the verbal origin date of the stories , like the story of the god of the greeks would "eat its children" , no doubt the ancients were talking about the moons of jupiter , and how the moons were reabsorbed into jupiter , i also noticed stars that were binary or trinary were often specially regarded such as the star sirius which is a triple star , sirius A was isis , sirius B was osiris they were brother sister husband wife , and in the story they adopted anubis for all time and anubis was sirius C , and when anubis was adopted the calendar of the solar year on earth had to be changed from 365 days to 365.242 , long ago this knowledge got me a scholarshipa and honorary membership that i declined , because i am free i take no blood oaths that bind me from speaking about the mysteries of antiquity to anyone i choose , and for some reason i choose you

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Safety note: It doesn't matter. Just don't add water to hygroscopic acids like sulfuric acid...

Please can u teach me step by step

Not easily. Silver chloride is to be avoided, if at all possible, as the conversion to elemental silver is difficult. The best method is through cementation of the nitrate onto copper. The only reason he did not get almost 100% recovery is because he did not get rid of the excess nitric acid before cementing out the silver.

Even if you could do so easily and efficiently, the percentage of silver citrate would be minute.

It's just a '67 centennial 50% silver quarter - huge mint run. As a coin ring maker, I'll have you know I ruined at least 8 40% halves and 3 walkers ;). I will remelt the walkers into beautiful jewelry though.

@@jamesedwards7442 I guess that’s acceptable...😝

@@turkeysauce9937 just subbed to you, it looks like you put out cool content!

The loss was in his procedure, not the process. Also, the silver is not lost - it is in the waste solids/liquids that can be processed further.

Yeah he said why he didnt get it all. He left nitric acid in the first solurtion. Meaning too much nitic and too little silver. Then he didnt leave the copper in long enough to precipitate all of the silver. You can save the solution nothing would be lost

Sadly, melting Silver Chloride is difficult, and doesn't just "drop out" the silver. You have to use sodium bicarbonate, dextrose, charcoal and a high temperature. It's slow and very annoying to deal with. Most chemists avoid AgCl for this very reason

R u a chemist

@@user-he7sc3fg3r Who cares if he is a chemist, he is right. Most refiners add more silver alloy to use up the available nitric before cementing the silver.

That's a '67 centennial Canadian quarter, it's actually only 50% silver.

hey benis why are you watching this in 2020

Yeah. I got tons of pennies and nickles and dimes and i just need to get some nitrous acid. Like a bucket of it would be good.

Shame on you. Double dies and errors are insanely rare. Don't go around telling ppl to try and find them. The odds are extremely high and further so are the odds of finding junk silver in the wild. You are far better off buying them for slightly above spot from Provident Metals then wasting your time searching coin rolls.

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