Platinum From Meteorite 

So now that the video has been watched by tens of thousands here are some problems identified by the community: I forgot I used the anvil with platinum in the past, I’ve since cleaned it of course but I can’t fully rule out contamination. Sometimes meteorite is plated in Platinum group metal to preserve it and make it shiny, I don’t know for sure that I didn’t end up with such a piece. Also the low yield is likely due to using the wrong acid and probably dissolved most of my values along with the iron. I guess this means I’ll just have to try it again right?

Man I used to binge the precious metal extraction videos back when I was younger. Watching a new one brings me so much joy. Never change Cody.

I refuse to believe it's an accident that Cody uploaded a 22 minute 22 second long video on 22/02/2022, showing how to make 22 cents worth of Platinum. I also don't think that it was a accident that her wore a Star Fleet uniform for this space filmed video :p

Cody - Twosday, 22.2.22 (or 2.22.22 US) 22 cents, $200, 22:22 long video... Something makes me think this is not coincidence! Keep making the world happy and informed my man. You have certainly added joy to my life. Much love big fella

"but regardless of method I have acquired a sample of asteroid material" honestly sounds like something a 1950s sci-fi villain would say.

Well done! You got it out on 22/2/22 with a length of 22:22

Happy Twosday! Thanks for coming on for a chat with John!

You really are a treasure Cody, smart, a great educator, curious humble and kind. Just a reminder that you are much appreciated

It's always nice when cody uploads because it means he hasn't hurt himself doing something reckless

Cody: "Carbon monoxide makes me nervous" Also Cody: "Let's gargle some mercury!" 🤷‍♂️ (Just for the record, I know how dangerous carbon monoxide is. If you're telling me that, the joke has gone over your head. At least Cody got the joke...)

When the meteorites are too big Cody: THATS IT IM GETTIN ME MALLET!

This video feels like you're doing metal extraction while in cosplay as an Star Trek officer

This was great, Cody! I literally just found a meteorite and have been looking for places to verify it, and this video came up! This was so interesting!

Just an idea for the mars base, ever considered doing a ‘waste water’ treatment video? An interesting idea would be the photo-fenton process. It uses Iron(II)/Iron(III) ions in the waste water to produce hydroxyl radicals that can help treat the water, the process can be sped up with the addition on hydrogen peroxide (reducing the need for iron(II) to produce hydrogen peroxide from water). If it helps I can send some journal articles on it

I loved how you described the different kind of meteorites at the beginning of the video. I remember learning some of the first iron tools/weapons were the result of using meteorites. Just imagine what people back then thought when they saw those strange shiny objects on the ground.

Cody, your videos have always been informative and interesting, but the educational quality of this video is *astounding* . You are blending theory, practice, and entertainment seamlessly!

Yes the Platinum is nice but The Nickel and Cobalt solution at 14:31 has such a stunning blue color, kinda like a blue sapphire. It looks so cool.

Cody is back! I've discovered his channel with the algae video and then just binged all his old videos lol. This channel is so diverse, cool and informative all at the same time. Keep up the great work Cody!

cody ive loved watching you over the years and wanted to take a moment to thank you for making chemistry and metallurgy etc so much fun, thank you and keep on keeping on!

Is it just me or is Cody looking really well lately compared to say a year or two ago. Keep it up its visible you're much more happy !

It’s Twosday 02/22/2022 at 2:22 PM and the video is 22:22 long! Well done, Sir!!

I honestly haven't watched you in a couple years. I just kinda stopped watching science videos, but every now and then i come back and see you are still uploading and doing cool shit and it warms my heart in a strange way! love you cody!

awesome as always cody! double awesome because i’m learning about some of this stuff like complex molecules in chemistry class right now! thanks for making these videos they are such a huge reason why i love science

Thank you, Cody! All of your content is incredible, but this throwback, this was so needed tonight. You are and have always been the best!

If anyone asks you how cold liquid nitrogen is, you tell them roughly the temperature of "space shade". 🤣 I love Cody's Lab. He has a unique sense of humor but definitely a great one. 👍

Love it. 22/02/2022, 2:22PM in Germany, 22:22 min Video Just Perfect

I’ve been a long time subscriber and I have no bias on any of your genre of videos. I’m simply satisfied every time I watch a video. It has honesty change my point of view on so many things for the better and has definitely made me want to reengage science and things along that line. Thank you

Cody, I've just been watching through your precious metals refining videos over the last couple of weeks and was thinking, "man! I really wish me would start this series back up again.. " and here we are. Resounding success or not, I really enjoy watching the process and deductive reasoning used. Thanks for this!

Cody: "OH boy! Here I go extracting again!"

This is so nestalgic for me. I started off watching Cody for the mining and precious metals refining series. I really wish he would had kept going with that and eventually gotten his collection to a Kilo of gold bar and a kilo or more of silver. I know getting a kilo of platinum or other platinum group metals is nearly impossible since they are so useful and don't oxidize, but it would had been awesome to see Cody Continue his gold refining. No matter how many times I see him do it, it's always interesting. I understand it gets boring doing the same thing over and over again for an intelligent guy like Cody who has so many different interests and ideas, but I still wish he stayed with mining and precious metals to some degree, and just added to that with other videos on different subjects

I am so happy to be watching precious metal extraction from Cody again. Thanks, dude!

Thanks for the video Cody. I've always loved the precious metals recovery series.

Well done on 22:22!

Chemistry is magic and Cody is a wizard. Dont ever let anyone tell you otherwise

This is some of my favorite kinds of Cody'sLab. I look forward to Asteroid Mining Part II. Side note: I'd love to see a follow up of the highway platinum video

Love your new camera skills man 🎉 makes it so much nicer to consume your amazing content! Keep up the amazing work!

Please water your plants! Seeing them shriveling up and dying is killing me hahah. Great stuff as always. I enjoy your videos, they are very entertaining and educational.

Haven’t seen your videos in a couple of years Cody. You’ve come a long way man. Keep up the great work!!!

Cody needs to be picked up by a streaming service to create a TV show. Enticing, fun, and knowledgeable.

That is an awsome view of the process and so insightful! Cody is one of the best creators on this platform. Thank you Cody

Cody’sLab has always been my favorite channel to unwind to. His creativity, and great commentary has always brought me back. Thanks for the video, man! 🤘

I look forward to future chemistry books talking about the "Cody Process" for economical asteroid mining!

Cody. This is the type of shit that keeps me coming back to your videos. Keep doing what you’re doing.. it’s great. Also, I hope you’re having a great 2022 - my girlfriend and I wish you nothing but solid mental health and joy.

Absolutely love these videos man. I know it’s not profitable, but very fun to see the outcome. To me, you’re a precious metal.

Cody, miss you man. I learned so much from your channel. Totally reminds me of Mr Wizard show from my childhood. First experiment of yours I saw was extracting precious metals from dirt that you swept up from the side of I 15. Best channel on RU-vid. Thanks For sharing bub!👍

A few videos on making crucibles would be nice. I seen you messing with clay on Instagram and noticed the one crucible in this video looked homemade. I am impatiently waiting on my kiln from ebay right now.

congrats Cody! this was an amazing video to watch, and yes my friend, you are a genius, people like you will make awesome new space discoveries possible, keep up the awesome work!

I am so happy so see you well and that enthusiastic working on your projects. Its a Joy to watch an intelleigent person living the dream off an cracy scientist. You are an inspiration for many to come!

In the context of living in space, rather than just sending robots there to mine out precious metals for use on Earth, the phosphorus and sulfur will probably be a lot more valuable than the platinum-group elements, given that those will be significant bottlenecks for any space colony in terms of how much total biomass it can have.

This reminds me of a research project I did on M type asteroids in high school! I remember reading in an article that the asteroids had "industrial grade" metals in them or something along those lines, and was never able to figure out just what that meant. I think this sheds some light on that phrase and perhaps why it was so vague.

Best channel on any platform out there. Thanks for the awesome, educational video!!

What a great video Cody! You're the man that got me into chemistry, and these videos are why. You're an inspiration!

Hey Cody, great video:) are you familiar with nickel sulfide collection? It's very similar to the process you used (fire assay lead collection), but better suited to PGEs. Also, allowing the prill to cool slowly prevents sprouting (though with high platinoids, it's hard to avoid). It's not very often I get to see the processes I do for work out in the wild, so I get all giddy and love talking about it when I do. Anyway, great video as always (I just noticed this video uploaded on 22/2/22 is 22:22 long, awesome)✌️

cody is closely reaching a supreme form between Doofenshmirtz and Oppenheimer

Yay, Cody’s back! I stumbled upon this channel by accident, and been fascinated ever since. And I love reading the conversations the chemists have in the comments😁

Meteorite: flies through space and lands on earth “Welcome back to Cody’s lab”

Hey Cody I really hope all is going well with you! Love to see you doing your thing another great video!

Did you re-weigh the material between smashing it and putting in with the HCl? Curious how much mass would have been lost in that step (small powder, little bits that might have escaped your containment system, etc).

Really cool and super interesting video Cody, cheers for the upload Mate, really enjoyed watching like your other precious metal extraction videos thank you Cody.

Your magnetic sparkles are certainly from the nickel that is present. That was fun to watch something I would never be able to do to my meteorites. Great video!!!

Giving Nilered some friendly competition again! Being precious metals, it’s a little more exciting than other reactions.

I love how excited you get for maybe developing a method for asteroid mining. Your enthusiasm make your videos so much more engaging!

Thank you for making more videos I enjoy watching everything you do

Another question... between 7:50 and 8:10 something must have reacted with (I'm guessing) the oils from your hands that made them visible on the glass? Do we know what was produced in the reaction that caused this? I know that cyanoacrylate can do it when heated up -- are there reactions in your crockpot essentially making super glue or is something else going on?

I'm watching this as I'm holding a 1oz 99.9% pure platinum coin. Videos like this show just how much effort, time and money must be put into extracting enough metal to make a 31.1g coin.

Its interesting how all of this information is so over my head but it grabs my veiw on the world and everything in it and wows me. If i could go back in time school would have been awesome experience to learn what you show.

I'm so glad to see a new video! One of the RU-vid GOATs for sure.

As far as actual asteroid mining goes, wouldn't the iron/cobalt/nickel be the more valuable material? Getting structural materials into space is expensive, so getting it from the asteroid should be quite a savings (and I use that term relatively).

Love seeing Cody pop up in my sub box!

Was getting itchy for a new upload, very happy to see one. Loved the classing intro

"Carbon monoxide makes me nervous" --Mercury Man, 2022 Thanks for another awesome video, Cody!

I remember your video where you found that meteorite! (If it's that same one), you had also found an inverter out there that you used in your mine :)

Hey Cody I sent you a package a long time ago that contained old phone parts for your gold extraction. Did you ever receive it I had a cool rock in it too. It would mean a lot to me if you received it, you’ve been my role model since I was young

man ive missed the metal extraction videos. I cant tell you how much entertainment i have gotten out of this series and its great to see another. a bit of nostalgia

those colors are so beautiful it blows my mind how different metals show up differently in solution

Cody, your smile in the intro was so heartwarming for me. When I saw this video I just knew it was exactly what I needed

Neat, I have a couple of meteorites myself, I'd love to actually find one. My favorite one I own is the non magnetic one, I'd say non metallic, but thats probably wrong. Supposedly that one is either from a rocky planet or celestial body like the moon or Mars.

Love it when I see some new content upload. Keep it up Cody, love the vids!

Very interesting video, thanks! I work in a mineralogical museum and I think we sell the same meteorites as you used in your refinement. Very cool to see. Also, I applaud you to using the caliper set to the metric system :D

Hmmmm thinking I'd be luckier sweeping motorways than looking for space rocks. As always Cody, another fine video that leaves mainstream TV in the dirt

Where did you find that iron meteorite? I've been looking into some mineral samples from eBay but the prices are generally exorbitant because of the overlap with crystal healing bull. Meteorites unfortunately fall under that umbrella as well. I'm interested in a sample like you have(had) but I don't particularly care to pay $300 for it.

I’m amazed with the filtering process and reverse checking by understanding the atomic tables. I never studied chemistry but seeing you perform the work made me learn very fast. Hope you advance the fertilization industry someday.

You make the chemistry look so easy! Great vid as always my dude.

I missed this so much, I've been rewatching the precious metal extraction series and it's really cool to see a new one so interesting! You and nigel are the best chemistry RU-vidrs (don't tell him but I like you a lil bit more)

You were wise to not go down the Ni(CO)4 route! If CO makes you nervous, Ni(CO)4 should having you running! As a PhD student studying nickel and palladium, Ni(CO)4 is one of the few things I would never work with. As always, I love your videos - science is a lot harder to do when you're dead! Stay safe 😉

That test for PGMs with the peroxide is awesome! Thanks for the info. Also this is the coolest metal refining video ever.

this deserves more views. ove you cody. keep up the good work. im loving it

Hey Cody, Got a question for you. I've been told in all my courses for H2S safety (I work in the oilfield in Alberta Canada) that if you are anywhere near the formation of it that you have less than 10 seconds after you start smelling rotten eggs before you pass out and become a victim to the gas. so I'm just wondering if its dramatized in the courses for our added safety or if it is really that dangerous? Love your vids and always look forward to the next one. Hope you're doing well.

My sincere hope is that Elon Musk sees these videos and sends Cody up to space for real. You know. FOR SCIENCE!

Man, thank you! This was great. Love it when u do chem

Now Cody has presciently identified the future challenge of producing reagents in space from basic ingredients, reacting them, and extracting elements from ore in a microgravity asteroid mining operation: the next great chemical engineering challenge!

When you mentioned "distilled water", it got me thinking, what minerals could you extract from tap water or even bottled spring water How much contamination does your local tap water have. Would it be possible to yield anything from a reasonable volume of tap water ?

Hey Cody if Elon proposed that you would be one of the first inhabitants to build a base on Mars would you go? I sure would! Edit: Coming from re watching the entire CHB series.

I am blown away!! The way you only used $10 000 worth of materials and chemicals to extract 50 cents of precious metals.... is awesome!

Finally a very good episode! Keep doing this episode's with material extraction...they are super!

Depending on the type of meteorite the price can be up to $2000-$5000/gram just so people are aware of this before destroying meteors they find to get a few dollars of precious out of it... (check if it is of the valuable type first).

Could the ‘glitter’ possibly be iron silicate? In which case the addition of water may result in a Fenton reaction, producing hydroxyl radicals…

Amazing presentation made a complex procedure understandable and explained in detail the steps undertaken

"This is some concentrated ore that fell to the Earth--" _rock slips from Cody's hand and slams on the ground_ "...again."

It's a shame the quality of codys videos have been in a steep decline ever since Kanyon left him. The man has never recovered and it shows.