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You can make gold appear from something that isn't gold... And this is chemistry, not alchemy!
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@jamesmiles2090 5 лет назад

I wonder how much that process costs in comparison to the price of the gold obtained.

@afthefragile 5 лет назад

It's super inefficient unless you do it in huge industrial sized batches. Otherwise the gold u get is like worth 10bucks in return for like 70bucks of raw materials!

@FlesHBoX 5 лет назад

It's probably pretty worth right now. I pulled 9 grams out of about 25 CPUs (pentium 166), which wasn't worth enough to recoup the cost when I did it, but it's worth a lot more now.

@sysghost 5 лет назад

A good question indeed. Makes one wonder why there's companies out there selling complete sets with everything needed to start gold-recycling at your own home. That is chemicals, tools, containers, etc. One might believe it's just an initial cost that will swallow any profits, and once one get started the profits should soon roll in if one just keeps it up for long enough. Well.. yeah... kinda... but on have to get up in ridiculous volumes, it's not feasible doing it in the home kitchen any more. Energy and consumables cost a whole lot compared to the return. Once one is at extremely large industrial volumes, one can almost see some really really small profits. TL;DR: ... For the home brewer in the kitchen it's not worth it at all anywhere. Only at large industrial volumes it might be profitable, and even then it's questionable if it's worth all the hassle/risks.

@FlesHBoX 5 лет назад

It is most certainly profitable at large scales. There are many other metals that can be recovered from these parts, not just gold. It was profitable when gold was $400/oz back in 2005 when I played with it, and the gold alone is worth three times that much now. And when you consider that most people see old tech scrap as worthless and will literally give it to you, you eliminate a large cost and you basically just have labor and chemicals. I mean, nobody is going to get rich doing this in their backyard (you REALLY don't want to do this in your kitchen, unless you enjoy remodeling), but you can certainly make good money doing it at large scales.

@GigawingsVideo 5 лет назад

afthefragile that's what happened in certain places in China right now. Mountains of electronic wastes being torn into pieces by underpaid workers without proper protection so it can be processed to extract the gold from it.

@Axmirza2 5 лет назад

Lmao why was the editing and music so intense? It's like a couple of bucks worth of gold, it's not life or death whether he loses it

@SkeleCrafteronYT 5 лет назад

That looks like more than a couple bucks.

@ratlinggull2223 5 лет назад

It's a struggle for survival after brexit. I remember that NileRed also made a video like this but without the intensity (he's canadian)

@Eric_D_6 5 лет назад

The editor is implying he has a loan shark after him

@Angry_Ranger 5 лет назад

You do know gold is $1400 an ounce and is only going to go up in price right? That was more than a few dollars... lmao

@scanfreq1972 2 года назад

Like a James Bond movie. He must be Goldfinger. I know, bad joke.

@h0lx 5 лет назад

I am so triggered when people call lab procedures recipes.

@felixnkrumah3560 5 лет назад

Get over it. People die everyday and you cry about this?

@Elrarion2 5 лет назад

Yeah but who cares about death that you don't experience? /s

@impalabeeper 5 лет назад

This is a popsci show and it's not like chemistry procedures aren't comparable enough to recipes.

@satan3200 5 лет назад

Calm down Albert Einstein

@notosure2148 5 лет назад

I am so triggered when people call baking procedures a science. Oh wait.... no I'm not, because I'm not a bitch.

@jasongurr 5 лет назад

its just a normal chemistry process why all the drama? Wait its the BBC!

@chrls5559 5 лет назад

what a coincidence, a TARDIS commenting on a BBC video

@Notorious-AP 5 лет назад

If she cheat Imma choke her 😂random

@umbra9705 5 лет назад

God the BBC always has one up their ass.

@swaggod226 5 лет назад

If she cheat Imma choke her 😂😂👍

@babolikoboy9440 5 лет назад

0:50 “this is way beyond school chemistry”

@pyromen321 5 лет назад

“This is way beyond school chemistry” lmao our 9th grade (age 14) science class involved making aqua regia as an educational lab. It’s literally just mixing two liquids...

@Dontcrybebetter 5 лет назад

pyromen321 wtf I’m a freshman and I don’t do this shit

@loreaver3882 5 лет назад

pyromen321 you must go to a private school

@op466_gaming9 5 лет назад

@@Dontcrybebetter true lol

@b.m.5068 5 лет назад

Aqua regia 3 parts of hcl + 1 part of nitric acid I had that too in the 9th grade

@devadathan1506 5 лет назад

I didn't make it or anything but knew what it was the in 9th grade anol

@RealUlrichLeland 5 лет назад

Could you add the urea by pissing in the bucket?

@notosure2148 5 лет назад

As long as that bucket was clear and you let the water evaporate first... maybe. Smells bad though

@bbokgomu5422 5 лет назад

You need to do shit to your urine to get to the urea

@b.m.5068 5 лет назад

Acids if given small amount of water generate heat and concentrated acids like this can just explode Happy pissing

@isrealijewnotzoinist640 5 лет назад

😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍 little bit co2 from the anus

@maggiep9007 5 лет назад

@@bbokgomu5422 Nope. It's in there. You just have to do some disgusting work to purify it.

@SillieWous 5 лет назад

Lol the amount of gold on a pcb is negligible compared to the copper they just trow away😂

@matthewsmith2385 5 лет назад

SillieWous facts the amount of metal they should have siphoned

@banzok2403 5 лет назад

Well that's why they filmed it for youtube

@Emu- 5 лет назад

Ikr they’re such idiots for throwing it away! 😂

@crimsonnite9291 5 лет назад

Emu🐦 ✔️ Lol idiot it’s the BBC of course they’re not gonna care about cooper worth a few bucks they want their episode done nigga

@Emu- 5 лет назад

Thunderbolt No, i mean the people that throw it away are such idiots.

@colshapedbutter8655 5 лет назад

Please don't use Windows for circuit boards use Mac's instead

@dredxler2201 5 лет назад

💔💔💔😂😂😂😂😂

@Tech101yt 4 года назад

Shut up.

@brostenen 2 года назад

Of course. Software does not contain gold. Hardware does.

@kassetter333 16 дней назад

Er du helt dust? Vi snakker ikke om programvare, men fysisk kretskort. AMATØR DUST !

@aliencreaturei5245 2 месяца назад

Now you need 9 of those and you have a gold bar.

@norma8686 5 лет назад

I don't even know if that quantity of gold is enough to pay for all the chemicals you used to extract it.

@laharl2k 5 лет назад

Norma I was thinking the same. Nurdrage and Cody used hydrochloric acid and chlorine gas to disolve gold (same result as from aquaregia, ourochloric acid) but hydrochloric acid and recirculating the chlorine gas seems way cheaper than this bruteforce attempt.

@DoomDutch 5 лет назад

Norma, Laharl: As someone else in the comments stated: it is only profitable at an industrial level. The costs alone of buying the used chemicals far outweigh the profit of the gold. (Not even to mention the high cost of getting rid of the chemical waste!)

@loreaver3882 5 лет назад

Gerwin Bergsma there goes my gold farm

@ThangPham-ol8fy 5 лет назад

The editting work cost more than the gold

@DeLaxen 5 лет назад

@@ThangPham-ol8fy No it doesn't... The software for editing costs money at first purchase, after that editing is completely free...

@aserrodriguez6609 5 лет назад

He might have lost a ton of it when he poured out the "green liquid" after he liquefied the gold. Because it's very dense so allot of it might have gotten stuck with all the other crap in the container. You have to really rinse that all down to get all of the material out. That's why gold miners have WASH PLANTS! that's where you separate the gold

@Chewy_GarageBandDad Год назад

Stannous chloride test solution is one of the most important tool and a most have for any precious metal recovery and refining process, this test solution will tell you if there is presence of dissolved precious metals (Gold, Platinum and Palladium) in a solution or not. IM shocked he didn't test anything.

@nike23demo23 5 лет назад

Thank you Cody's lab for helping me see through these lies.

@mayurireddy8196 Месяц назад

Amazing extraction from circuit board

@mmnormph8314 3 года назад

1:00 My expectation: Strong enough to dissolve a human body. The reality: Strong enough to dissolve gold.

@Aeleas 5 лет назад

Cody's Lab did it better.

@pyromen321 5 лет назад

Aeleas, yep, Cody’s lab did not dramatize everything and flat-out lie about the facts.

@davidwalterhughes2258 2 года назад

Thanks for the video

@sonofafrica514 2 года назад

Spent $100 dollars worth of chemicals to get a $50 piece of gold

@Horia170 4 месяца назад

Great bro informative video ✌️

@seankestebernales5841 5 лет назад

Finally, real gold, not like those diamonds from peanut butter

@meriginiabel1481 5 лет назад

Ok, where's my old phone. Time to make so gold🤪

@johnox2226 5 лет назад

Pretty cool

@malzoracion9853 5 лет назад

Before I click on this video, I thought it will be simple like snapping the gold off 😂😂😂

@theaxp001 5 лет назад

This guy: This isn't high school chemistry. Me: Gets identification of Ni in school exam using aqua regia

@yazeed_0o0 5 лет назад

i love how this video started so early without a long boring intro . . .

@boldsword1 5 лет назад

This topic was covered thoroughly (and much more informatively) about 6 years ago.

@bluezy710 Год назад

Care to tell us by who?

@focusmicro 7 месяцев назад

www.youtube.com/@sreetips@@bluezy710

@pyromen321 5 лет назад

“Potentially lethal chemicals.” Every single chemical is potentially lethal. I want to die.

@Rob337_aka_CancelProof Год назад

You can confirm it's there by dissolving some tin in dilute hydrochloric acid making stannous (tin) chloride an extremely sensitive test for the presence of gold in solution 1:57

@gregddr 5 лет назад

Gold have different colours at different particle sizes...it might even turn blue when it is made into a colloid i suppose...

@rambo8710 5 лет назад

So how can i get that lab procedure?

@luismotta5463 2 года назад

Forget the gold. The process and the diversity of chemicals is way more interesting 🔥

@HecJ 4 года назад

3:49 8 more and you'll have yourself an ingot.

@debasishpanda5968 5 лет назад

Nice

@josephnewell4822 3 года назад

Went nuts with that nitric acid

@nazeerahmedmnazeerahmed7145 2 года назад

Thanks

@justme.9711 2 года назад

What method does industry use to get the gold?

@kingcosworth2643 2 года назад

I hope that "I've made pure Green" was a Black Adder reference.

@MarkH10 Год назад

6 hours, $125k in equipment, and $2300 in supplies and you get $27 in gold.

@ivsongold322 3 года назад

Super 👌

@jason-sama830 5 лет назад

Cody’s lab do this all the time with no over reaction

@lukasselvaraj2355 2 года назад

how to recover gold from e waste at home , gold recovar steps video :ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dFBmM13rwX4.html

@comrademartinofrappuccino 2 года назад

Metal extraction has never been this epic (;

@TheGeckoNinja 5 лет назад

is there nothing that can be done to just pull the gold off the circuits?

@am_ravindra94 3 года назад

I have done a project during my master's on this to extract precious metals from e-waste. Hell lot of dangerous activities required to get milligrams of gold, platinum and other metal.

@haidenwelch2353 4 года назад

The suspense

@Casp3r.aka.Droid. 5 лет назад

Once you use the acid the first time and you loosened up all the gold that’s when you take tweezers and pull the gold off of the undissolved circuit board

@cryptoshangout1941 5 лет назад

Interesting

@Dzeividz 3 года назад

Dramatic music is like he is fighting 300 spartans

@RCapricot 5 лет назад

Did anyone else get the Blackadder reference at 1:59? Some pure green.

@alexdarcydestsimon3767 7 месяцев назад

That's really a show of its own. To intense and speedy voice. Also doubious : You don't need complex receipe. You don't need to dissolve the gold either. Usually, nitric acid will disolve everything but gold in less than an hour. Then you dilute the liquid by pouring the solution in double the water. Then you rinse your bucket with water, add that to the solution, then you filter out the gold from the solution with coffee filters. Repeat the whole nitric acid + filtering process will help you get rid of any other remaining metal. If some other metal remains : rinse well and try to dissolve with chlorhydric acid, rinse filter and so on. Absolutly DONT mix chlorhydric and nitric or it will dissolve your gold.

@thilinamadishanka1791 3 месяца назад

Good

@ranadeep7462 5 лет назад

What is the name of the music?

@Quantum-Bullet 5 лет назад

1000 degree hot knife vs Circuit Board

@zaytm7196 5 лет назад

Soooooo worth it lol

@marvinamann4969 5 лет назад

Way beyond school stuff??? 😂 We literally did exactly that in school too

@learning8591 Год назад

My gold bangle reacted to thermometer Mercury, will it will be removed from gold or it is now turned into Mercury?

@coreyfreelander1478 2 года назад

So this is why they hold computer recycling at schools around Southern California.

@zachmcphearson890 3 года назад

The amount of “drama” he spouts is hilarious. “If Oye mess opp this next step oye whell blow up the beelding we’re fellming in at this cuhrent moement”

@siopon88 5 лет назад

Thanks to you guys, now my friends is in a grave danger because he's an idiot who think it might be a doable shit after seeing your video.

@ghostofsparta5100 5 лет назад

I legit thought the title said Goku instead of gold since ive been watching a bit DB.

@crablover3106 5 лет назад

Oh yeah! Get gold and get your lungs poisoned from all that dangerous fumes! OH YEAH! FREE GOLD!!

@GeraltBosMang 5 лет назад

The process seems expensive.

@mistermood4164 5 лет назад

its only profitable in large quantities

@mistermood4164 5 лет назад

@@komocho7195 no im talking about on an industrial scale, if you did this with multiple tons of e-waste, you would make alots of money.

@slattypatty9982 5 лет назад

BrandonTheBoss I mean a place but me is a scrap yard for electronic like this they got thousands of those board and my uncle is a chem teacher and can get he chemicals I could get like 4000 of those hoard for free so I think with the right shit you could mask a lot

@Notanglef 4 месяца назад

I need help. I have so much gold I can see but it is inside some green muck. When I tried to melt it then it turned into what looks like steel. This is my first run. I see the gold flakes.

@firstnamelastname-xl7ss 5 лет назад

YES!!!

@FadedXenox 5 лет назад

Plot twist: that’s pyrite

@topg2820 5 лет назад

"This is way beyond school chemistry...", Lmao we learn about Aqua Regia in 9th standard here in India

@anmolgupta3076 5 лет назад

Sahi bola

@maxinerose2246 5 лет назад

that's why India is known as the country of science not the country of rapists 😂

@maggiep9007 5 лет назад

We did this in my school in 10th grade, and my class was behind.

@arthurmorgan3972 5 лет назад

And labias, flabias, and flip flaps!

@pyromen321 5 лет назад

This video makes me sympathize with those monks who immolate themselves.

@tediekgb 8 месяцев назад

I’d like to know the cost vs gold recovered

@babolikoboy9440 5 лет назад

This is Breaking Bad in a parallel legal universe.

@thesearinggamer1 3 года назад

Why does this video remind me of basically every episode of any show Gordon Ramsay is in....and he reminds me of Gordon Ramsay 💀

@Terpedup925 5 лет назад

All that work for a lil bit of gold

@cooldude391 5 лет назад

Oh, Edmund, can it be true, that I hold here in my mortal hand a nugget of purest green?

@kjamison5951 5 лет назад

Ed Stephenson You win the Internet for this quotation! It was the first thing I thought of when he mentioned ‘green’ and I heard it in Percy’s voice? As I did when I read what you had written!

@RobertPayne556 Год назад

_It looks like you've sneezed._ 🤭 Bless me.

@Tomaskotomco 5 лет назад

You probably paid 7x price for those nuggets , I mean the acides price ...

@ayoubarshad697 2 года назад

What kind of nitric acid is used to gold recovery and silver recovery

@TaylorandherMusic 5 лет назад

Why aren’t there captions for this video? You should at least turn on the automatic ones so people can follow along that aren’t able to hear the audio track. :)

@fuzzzeballs 6 месяцев назад

in the uk its harder to get the chemicals for extraction than the process irself

@horacesawyer2487 2 года назад

After trying that I discovered it was cheaper to go to the flea market and just buy a few ready made nuggets. : )

@maxierex6036 2 года назад

What is the best mask to use for protection from nitric fumes

@fidelcatsro6948 5 лет назад

when and where can we rob of you of that gold? ;)

@saurav02sahu 5 лет назад

What's the Gold's weight?

@AnimatorElite 2 года назад

they make it sound so serious when its not, ha.

@mrubanity2129 5 лет назад

I had to learn about royal water in school chemistry

@havesomecoffeeand6085 5 лет назад

How much for this? How much?

@jerryjoe88 5 лет назад

WOW!!! I got some baking soda & an old computer out in the garage. CaaaGHING!! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

@somdov 5 лет назад

Came to the comments to express disappointment in the fake uncertainty and 'danger' in the video, but it seems literally everybody else is saying this too.

@kanamekiyru 5 лет назад

Cody’s lab already did this

@_varshaa2214_ 2 года назад

0:49 Guess what Aqua regia was in our school syllabus in class 10th

@patrickstar2603 5 лет назад

Instructions not clear. FBI broke my door down.

@MightyElemental 5 лет назад

Cody's lab

@bananakuma 5 лет назад

Use $100 worth of chemicals to get $5 worth of gold. NICE!!!

@RobertPayne556 Год назад

Gold/Green giving me Blackadder vibes.

@danthadon87 5 лет назад

Next on BBC Earth Lab; How to Make Meth on a Budget.

@TheKumarAshwin 4 месяца назад

'Gould!'

@galybeans123546 5 лет назад

There's gold in the chips? I didn't knew that.

@zerosubscribersvideos1543 5 лет назад

linus tech tips brother

@mightymikkelgaming4066 5 лет назад

And at the end the candle costs more than the ferneral

@Chewy_GarageBandDad Год назад

its about a 2 gram button.. Nicely done.

@rasmuspritsberg01 5 лет назад

Step one: Buy a 2,000,000$ lab, step two: Melt the stuff, step three: get 6$ worth of gold. Profit?

@johnd1083 5 лет назад

What's the exact measurements?

@thefakedeal 5 лет назад

"This is way beyond school chemistry" we literally learned about aqua regia in school

@memestar234 5 лет назад

U copied another comment haha so pathetic

@crazypieman9 5 лет назад

*trash in a cylinder* HeY GuyS LooK At Me TuRn ThIs TrASh IntO 3 dOllArs LmaO

@ebinbelji7381 5 лет назад

How much did you have to spend on chemicals to get that much gold ? Were the costs balancing ?

@Chewy_GarageBandDad Год назад

It costs me 200.00 for all the chemicals and 50.00 to replace a broken Beaker each spring when I do this. My yield each spring has been between 2 and 4 thousand.