How to refine Silver - The Complete Silver Chloride Process Tutorial 

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great material for PMC; before the final melt, that powdered Silver is perfect to mix with organic binders and free cast to shape in a temperature controlled kiln :)

This process might have turned into my favorite process!

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What a nice tutorial. Came across your channel by chance and subscribed right away 👍 Continue the great job.

Thank you! I used your method today, and got it down to metallic silver. Your steps outlined helped me immensely…and it’s an inexpensive method too. Now, I just need to learn how to smelt it into a shiny bar, and find someone to sell it to 😄👍

Beautifully presented and explained! 🌟 🌟 🌟 👍

Good, dlear and simple vid. Well cone. I have managed to get close to 5 nines pure with this method but it took another 10 washes at each stage!

Just simply perfect video thanks 👌

Very cool. I wish I had time to experiment with refining and melting. Not complaining, I'm having a blast running my little scrapping biz, but there are so many directions one can take in this area. Thanks for sharing and keep up the great vids.

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Very informative !

Great educational video my friend.

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This process takes long time we used copper for collection of pure silver

Nice, interesting video. It would be of help to include weights and stoichometry though, like how much silver you're using, what constitutes the "calculated amount" of salt, etc.

Thanks for the clarity and details of your demonstration. Please keep going and produce more videos 👏

Hi teacher, please help me. I have some stone containing silver sulfide. What materials should I use to dissolve it and with what materials should I deposit it? In what acid does silver sulfide dissolve?

Can achieve the some results if use copper And thanks for the video

Thank you , this was very helpful. How would you suggest going about refining silver contacts that are attached to a small amount of copper and tungsten?

Would you say this is the least expensive way to refine pure silver?

Great video mate. However I feel people would benefit more for you used layman terms for ease of following. And how the calculations of a specific amount is done. I appreciate your time.

what the calculation should I use it to know how much the quantity added ?

Great video! Where did you get your nitric acid?

You are using a very rich flame when melting the silver, is that to minimize the oxygen absorption during the melt? Great video!

Can you tell me the ratios of chemical that you used ease?

Hey friend do you think i can go for the same prosses i do have over 40 kgs of nickel and sylver alloy and how much sylver i can get??

I have an doubt on the video at 3:50 what is the blue colour water type can you tell me

What fume hood do you use?

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Sir please can you guide me ,how to saperate silver from tin there is 3%of silver present in tin none other metals, please help me i want recover both

For me the solution turn to the dark brown color, also the brown dust setting on the bottom.. I know the silver chloride what I used was mixed with gold.. I can’t understand what’s was obtained.. im pretty sure its silver chloride cos its not dissolving even in the boiling water…anybody have an idea? Thank you

Very Succinctly explained. I have a question for you. I have Silver Nitrate solution. I added HCL, NaOH, and glucose. I have a viscous, black solution. I'm trying to recapture the Ag used in the Silver Nitrate electrolyte that I used in a dielectric cell to grow Ag crystal. The jet black solution is completely stable. No reaction or parcipitate for several days now. What would you suggest? In a test, of adding small amounts of HCL, to the solution, I get the, "Cottage Cheese", parcipitate. NaCl? I'm a bit stuck. 2 - 2,500 ml beakers of the black solution. 8 gallons of more, Silver Nitrate to go. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you so much! Wade

Great video! Got a question you might can help with..How would you refine silver cadmium contacts without nitric?

What kind of glucose powder?

I watched your video and have it all written down on my notebook for my boyfriend to do. He can do it even if the metals he has have PGM's in them right? I'm sorry if the question is silly

Can you wash with regular tap water or must it be distilled?

Just had my first boil over lol

How much Amount of nitric acid should be added for 1 kg for silver jewellery of approx 70% purity? And how much amount of distilled water should be added to the silver nitrate solution?

Does silver lose its weight when it is recovered from silver chloride? If we convert 10 grams of silver to silver chloride and then want to restore it to silver, is 10 grams left or is there a decrease in the reaction?

My is black liquid and won’t precipitate. Why?

cant you just melt the silver oxide directly back into silver?

What’s the total cost of the process?

Why not just put copper into the beaker once the nitric stops reacting?

I have silver alloy containing copper,zinc,lead, cadmium Alloy having 50% silver content I want to recover all silver without any loss of silver, suppose 1kg alloy with 50% silver content that means 55gm pure silver present in my alloy I want back all 500gm silver more than 98% purity...

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How to Recover Pure Silver From AgSCN

To achieve a 100% conversion to silver metal a constant temperature of 85 to 95 C must be maintained during the whole process. Place the beaker in a water bath, together with a thermometer. Add NaOH in small doses while stirring vigorously. A very exothermic reaction occurs, but it'll not be enough to maintain the optimal temperature during the whole process, therefore a gentle heating underneath the water bath is necessary to keep the temperature correct for the remaining part of this process. I always place the beaker in a clamp on a metal lab stand in such a way it's hanging a bit above the bottom of the water bath, allowing the water to flow free under and around the beaker; thus avoiding any spots becoming too hot. The water helps dispersing the heat when the NaOH and especially later when the sugar is added; important to avoid caramelization of some sugar types. Adding NaOH as a near saturated aqueous solution calms down the violent reaction quite a lot, and keeping a constant temperature of 85 to 95 C, as well as later adding sugar dissolved in water, all reduces the total reaction time of this process. Beware of the delayed reaction when adding the sugar. After the first dose of sugar solution, stir and wait until it start reacting, then continue to stir and add more in small doses to avoid overflow/boil over. Both while adding NaOH, and later while adding sugar, temperature increases will occur so the external heat source must be adjusted accordingly.

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Ain't no 99.9% Ag... Gotta crystalize the Ag, then melt it to get 99.9% fine.

Salve il metallo silver nn e argento ma e un metallo silver argento e tutta un'altra cosa giusto

Good to know but I just sell my silver to the refiner and receive 97% of the silver back.

Its too much work - just melt silver chloride with sodium carbonate to get your clean silver metal. Electric furnace with graphite crucible is best for this.

I think it's quite hypocritical, or misleading at worst, to say the NaCl method is easy to set up and no complicated equipment is involved and then go on to show the use of concentrated nitric acid, Chem condenser, fume hood, etc. While each alone is not technically complicated, all together the process is hazardous and requires more knowledge than the average person to do it safely.

whats this" calculated amount" crap, i thought this was a how to tutorial.