Refining Copper and Silver Will Save Your Acid One Day

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Refining Copper and Silver Will Save Your Acid One Day #reuse #acid #silver
After three long months of experimenting I found an economical way to refine #silverplated silverware along with other alloy metals in one system. By refining your silver and copper together electrochemically, you are able to reuse most of your acid solutions and when the time comes you can even get 80 to 85 percent of your original acid back.
The method used to refine both silver and copper is #electroplating inside of an aspirator cell. The #copper, if refined to 99.9% pure copper, while removing base metals, and collecting the silver. The silver cell is then used to further refine the copper cell slimes. The silver cell is also capable of refining 925 sterling #silver directly to 999 silver. Some of these processes are shown in my metal refining playlist - • Refining Metals .
Also described in this video is the process of converting your used silver nitrate solutions back into copper sulfate, which can be used in the copper cells. I also explain how to recover 80 to 85 percent of your nitric #acid which lowers your operating costs and increases your yield.
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@riverboat28 7 дней назад

I'm happy to see you doing well for yourself but there's no way most of us could afford your setups equipment and especially your XRF! Thanks for the videos.

@videolabguy 2 месяца назад

Excellent demonstration. I learned a lot Thanks! I still can't get over how many allegedly educated people can not properly pronounce "antimony".

@monadnockgems 2 месяца назад

Thanks a lot! Really glad you liked it. It’s an interesting word! Most people have never heard of it.

@Yodiyst 2 месяца назад

I been doing this but at this point I need a notebook to keep track 😂

@monadnockgems 2 месяца назад

The difference between science and messing around is "writing it down"!

@thegoodlookinorange1986 2 месяца назад

I love chemistry and I’m happy to have found you among a few other metal heads I watch. A fellow RU-vidr cements his copper back out of solution using angle iron. Could he use your electrolysis method with the platinum anode, nickel cathode and sulfuric acid to refine his backs to three nines. And possibly use it again right cement out his refined silver? Thanks for showing us your alchemy. 👍🤙❤️

@monadnockgems 2 месяца назад

I will have videos upcoming on how to use up all of the solutions. There are a few ways to get the result you're looking for. All acids and solids are in the system until you pull them out. They don't go anywhere but we have to decide in what form we want them to come out in. I am working on a series of experiments to pull each metal out one by one and reclaim the acids. Stay tuned and Thanks so much for watching.

@edwardhughes352 2 месяца назад

Very interesting. I didnt quite get why you pored the slimes into the aqua regia. What did that accomplish?

@monadnockgems 2 месяца назад

Thanks for watching! Pouring slimes into aqua regia causes silver chloride to form and settle out to the bottom. Every other metal will dissolve into solution. This creates a seperation point to get only pure silver chloride. Convert AgCl into silver metal using lye and sugar method.

@frantiseklaluch6605 2 месяца назад

Hello man, that is SOME lab you have now... I was told, electrolysis of sterling is not good method as there is too much copper. Silver has to be like 98-99 % and electrolysis is "last step" to remove slight contamination (Cu Au PGMs). Any thought about that? Here in central Europe sterling is kinda recent, I have most silver 800, 812, 830, and 900... 925 just some recent jewelery and british or american stuff...

@monadnockgems 2 месяца назад

Hi there brother! if all you want is your silver this is not the way to go, but i'm going to refine out, or at least i believe, i will refine out every metal with this process. Next test... Using the series of metals to pull the base metals out of the waste aqua regia one by one. My end goal is a sort of trash compactor approach. Garbage in, pure metal out! Keeping or selling all of the base metals is worth the cost of my acids. On your other point, I've put 50/50 silver in the cell and it works fine until it doesn't. If you run it twice it comes out 999. I've found that (95% and up silver put in cell will get 999 out. below that will also work if you monitor your solution saturation. As long as you don't reach a critical point of saturation you will get out 999 fine. God Bless!

@edwardhughes352 2 месяца назад

I have a couple of questions regarding the 3rd cell with 95% silver and wondered how pure is the silver you recover. I process stirling silver by dissolving in nitric and heating at about 300 deg C which turns the copper to the oxide which is insoluble ans end up with pure silver nitrate which is what I need. But I would like to try your electrolytic cell if the silver is 99.9% . Also what are your anode bottles called as I cant seem to find them in the UK and what do you use as the membrane?

@monadnockgems 2 месяца назад

Thank you for watching! I get 999 silver directly from the cell. Sterling in and 999 out. The only draw back, compared to some other methods, is that you will need to change out your electrolyte more frequently depending on how much base metal is introduced. This method has been used traditionally to purify 98% silver or higher, as a final step. Which I figure is not a concern because with this method you can recover most of your nitric acid with distillation. (upcoming video on this) The bottle is a 24/40 aspirator bottle for sale on amazon for about $50 US. The membrane is "dacron", (Shopvac - wet dry vacuum bag). Also don't forget to buy chemically resistant zip-ties, I buy mine from Grainger. Let me know how it goes, it is a lot of fun watching the crystals grow!

@Matt-xw1xx 12 дней назад

In your silver nitrate one, why don't the base metals in solution plate out with the silver?

@monadnockgems 12 дней назад

The cathode and anode dictate what will plate out. Cathode mostly. I could get more to plate out if I change the cathode to a lesser metal but it may also disolve in the silver nitrate. Keep the series of metals in mind. Usually the higher metal plates out.

@Matt-xw1xx 12 дней назад

@@monadnockgems Thank you for your response but I still don't understand. Copper spontaneously plates out on iron. Does it not do it on stainless steel?

@monadnockgems 11 дней назад

@@Matt-xw1xx Copper "does not" plate out on stainless cathode. Copper dissolves into the nitric solution and stays in solution. If your solution becomes to rich in copper it can plate out a little, but I've run kilos of metal through my #2 cell (same solution) and consistently get 995+ silver. Can't say for sure but I believe it is because Silver has a stronger molecular bond.

@Matt-xw1xx 11 дней назад

@@monadnockgems Ohhh your electrolyte is nitric acid based?

@monadnockgems 11 дней назад

@@Matt-xw1xx Yes in the silver cells, its silver nitrate solution.