Testing A Possible Origin To Alchemy: The Golden Rain Experiment 

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Science is based on questions, without them we wouldn’t be where we are today

Also Technetium. The original versions I have found in numerous books suggest that the three elements for the transmutation of lead into Gold were Mercury, Sulfur and Salt. However through many many books I’ve seen variations where some said you needed a tiny amount of actual gold to seed the process. Others claimed that it was Fools gold used in the process. Also that this process of achieving what they called “The Philosophers Stone” takes some time. Maybe even years of dilution, hydrating and Dehydrating and pulverizing the elements to weaken the atomic structure. The dilution process again was also mixed as I saw Phosphoric Acid and Citric acid and a few other acids. Never saw Nitric Acid however. Finally at some point you reach a certain point and the elements were supposed to be hermetically sealed in rock Crystal and then heated to a high temperature and that process is repeated for some time. Then in the final stage you reach a point where the elements become black but have a rainbow appearance and thus is called “Ravens Wing.” At some point you see a reaction that looks like stars and then it’s supposed to be taken to a dark place and unsealed and the substance is supposed to be kept in the dark. A small piece was supposed to be taken and wrapped in beeswax and then dropped into molten lead. The reaction is supposed o change the lead into gold. The secret they don’t say in all the versions of this formula I read was that if you succeeded in changing the lead into gold. You remove the gold from the crucible and then add water to the crucible and drink it. It’s supposed to make you young again. Some say immortal? Other versions say the water has to be drunk from the rock Crystal the “Ravens Wing” which successfully made gold. Is any of it true? IDK but I read a lot about it over the years. This is one of the stories which were attributed to the story of Compte De Saint Germain. Some say he discovered the secret and his death was never documented. Some claim he’s still alive. Again IDK? However there were also numerous cases of people poisoned by formulas that they thought would extend their lives. But I gathered none of those successfully transmuted lead into gold.

@@Redtailedhawk99 I enjoyed reading this. The murcury sulphur and salt are specific processes. You have to change the plant through each process. Lots of hermetic or Magick books have blinds (fake spells or lies) that can be dangerous to someone who isn't savvy with magick or even been able to find the answers with it. I hate blinds, it's just entitled a**hats who don't want to share knowledge.

@@holdthis_l6157 science is trying to debunk your own theories.

may i borrow your grimoire?

@@tombirmingham7033 just get 69 gold coins from the minions at the big cave and trade 69 gold coins for one from the shop down the path

@@poyrikkanal lol

@@poyrikkanal if everybody did that they would stop paying so much its basic economics

It's true, i was the king 🤴

Unfortunately it wasn't random ingredients nor random crap. Most of these things have names and symbols in alchemy. There were seven metals known then and each was attributed with one of the seven planets/planetary bodies (at the time) and usually refered to as such: Sun - Gold Mercury - Quicksilver Venus - Copper Earth's Moon - Silver Mars - Iron Jupiter - Tin Saturn - Lead This naming system survives even today in the form of mercury where chemists have decided that the planetary name for quicksilver was preferable, as well as "saturnism" (lead poisoning). Alchemy is the precursor to chemistry and it was a lot more structured and planned out than you might think. They still had to be safe in the face of caustics like aqua regis, aqua vitae, and the various vitriols among other acids and bases, after all.

@@kyokoyumi I was kinda making a joke, but that's super interesting

@@kyokoyumi But what about before that system was created, it probably was just mixing stuff randomly and finding an unexpected result

@The Study obviously, particle accelerators

@The Study did i ask

I thought I was the only one lol

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@@glennwilliams8224🤗🤗

Forbidden Sunny D

It’s giving me anxiety

Holy shit... you read books?

@Rad Derry That sounds like an Egyptian technique from one of their alchemy papyrus: Mix lead dust and gold dust with gum (I'm guessing this looks black). Paint on. When fired the lead burns off, leaving gold plating. Edit: A mix of gold dust & glass dust is used in more modern recipes for pottery glaze.

what's book?

@@dogodogo5891 I second this question, what book?

@W0Y4K gold is always the end goal lol. still remember the first time a person came into the computer shot looking for circuit boards. had to quickly explain how much the chems cost and how little gold is recovered to my boss.

john sears this comment is underrated...

john sears *ba-dum-tss*

john sears this comment is *gold*

john sears Ahhhhhhhh ..., report for writing duty at How It's Made first thing tomorrow morning.

apollo launched wow, what a *hard* sentence you made. But this comment is *thick*

@International Man Of Mystery i think i like this option better

Damn, Hellsing Ultimate vibes

@International Man Of Mystery only the old wealth not the new wealth. the new wealth are the self made guys and we need them!

Most underrated comment ever!

@@dustinmann7031 Agreed, It needs pinning buddy😉👍

ETM654 amen to that

King of Random used to be so good... it’s a shame

I miss the homemade king of random. Now it feels like a business.

well I have to disagree, King of Random summorizes better and speaks more the language I do if that makes sense

Ryan🔥 I completely agree. He was good until he started to clickbait and make videos everyday. It was obvious at that point that he was just in it for the money.

Yea we didn't do a single experiment in science class in all my years of school, and I was in a Very rich area that claimed to be in the top 2% of schools in the country. I think that is like when you realize earning 100k puts you in the top .1% in the US, but you are by no way near what people would consider rich. There are just so few schools that are not crap.

Definitely ❤

@Princess Babydoll Riot John Taylor Gatto, a great author. NY school teacher of the year thrashes public uneducation.

I'm familiar with the experiment, I've seen it done with a tin plating to create brass when it's alloyed with the copper of the penny. Styropyro has a short video on it.

Pfff , the internet is near perpetual besides when we fall and the systems erode .

The origins are satanic. It's in the Kabbalah.

We need more comments on this

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Yall think back in the day alchemist ordered ground seaweed online?

18:30 THE FORBIDDEN ORANGE JUICE

@@Original-Phantom I don’t see your point?

Chewy V I was looking for a comment like this

True

That would actually kill him, or at least make him very ill. Most of what he is working with is lead.

Templarfreak thatsthejoke.png

you think alchemy is a fucking game??? we're making fucking gold here, god dammit

Right on. Keep the videos coming. I believe a lot of people like your presentations. Definitely.😊

Teacher by day, meth cook by night

Dulfinz pours water into a pot, meth comes out the bottom.100% casual

I wish meth wasn't so bad nor illegal nor a drug because I would love to try its synthesis, but you know, I enjoy living and not being in prison so...

It's about as simple a home 'synthesis' as you can get. (Well, if we're going _super internet seekrits_ crazy- TATP would have to be the *most* simple)

chloroform is also pretty simple

Scoop Science same

Join us. Join us XD Seriously though, I'm glad. Science is a fundamental subject and I am personally of the opinion that it is most important to human progress (if you have any alternatives I'd love to listen, figuratively).

MiauxCatterie They didn't teach us chemestry at all

I miss Good Eats.

The music just makes this video 100% better

Pablo Carnovale Just an homage to CodysLab ;)

Cody is like a proper mad scientist xD

Hahhaha I thought the same exactly

yepp i thought the same >.

Anemos Gaming a universal solvent that doesn't dissolve glass. That way you could cary it around.

+Anemos Gaming Alchemy was actually more for making tonics and cures for ailments that plagued the people of those times. Early Penicillin was made via a chemical function very much similar to Alchemy. The Philosophers' Stone, or the Blood-Sun Stone, was an idea that would be the Heart of the Gods. Able to create life, destroy it, and enable it to go further. A small piece was completed in 301 BCE and in 1539 via undisclosed documents found in secluded scriptures. A Homunculi was an idea for artificial beings for slavery and testing different poisons and tonics on. Turning base metals into gold was a fool's errand and was not actually successful. The Universal Solvent idea is what made people look more into acids and into natural phenomena. It was actually made in 1433 by an unnamed Scientist accidentally. It corroded through his station and through his leg. It's much more powerful than the acid in your stomach, which is the strongest acid known at the moment. (Hydrochloric acid) I've spent much of my life searching for some of these truths and it seems they _are_ possible. A man has successfully made 2 Homunculi recently and I decided to look back into some of the other items. But the main thing _all_ Alchemists sought after was the *Elixir of Life* It would grant the drinker a sort of 'Immortality' that would increase their lifespans by at least 4 times. This concoction has never been successful and usually ended up in the Alchemists' death due to the ingredients. It is said the Glass Library that H.P. Lovecraft talked about holds the key to making it work as intended but the Glass Library resides in a place that is not easily reached. Its doors are always open to you, just make sure you bring the 'Price of Admittance'.

Well I did 2 and 3

Xul'gehn Dravein first things first look into super acids we have already discovered a plethora of acids stronger than HCL acid such as the most basic being sulfuric acid and the more complicated ones being fluoroantimonic acid flourosulfuric acid and trifilic acid. Secondly homunoculi are fake. And lastly h p lovecraft was a author who wrote fictional stories.

Xul'gehn Dravein the elixir of life could also be substituted with the philosophers stone and homunculus are real and very easy to create.. USA labs do it all the time for stem cells and growing human organs

“Could it be true? That i hold here, in my mortal hands, a nugget of purest green”

Same, I only looked at the thumbnail and was super surprised when I saw nighthawkinlight

Ikr the background and the glass is the same

Omer Magen the exact same thing happened to me

Me too......

Yeah, I just watched some NileRed last night, including a bunch about Lead acetate. Those crystals are also nice looking.

holdmybeer nah, thunderfoot is the ultimate buster

The Chemical Workshop thunder foot is a bitch thou.. just saying

The Chemical Workshop SOLAR FREKING THORIUM POWERED WATER GENERATION HYPERLOOP SELF FILLING ROADWAYS

my point exactly... spends over 75% of video of making stupid word combos and other shit that no one cares about... but it would only take about 3 minutes to do

Don't you mean 'ankshent'

At least you're not 5 years late.

hated our chemistry class our teacher was super smart he just didnt trust any of us to not catch the place on fire so we never got to do anything.

As someone who's taken several high school and college chem classes, it is no where near as fun as this when you are learning in a setting like that

My teachers actually ruined chemistry for me, as they weren't very good at explaining things and they never knew how to make things interesting

We only did theory. Helps me understand the world a bit better, but was NOT fun cramming it all

Imagine not being offered it

I can’t tell if that’s a compliment or an insult

yes

Or an old timey Ted Cruz barber

He is. The time machine is covered in another video.

@@ryanincro17 just hot Ted Cruz.

Always wanted to try that trick, but fire breathing does not mix well with long hair XD

How does one go about studying this world properly, sorry i didnt know how to word my question

@@ronaldinocrosdale7622 it is all over the place, pieces here and there, it has become more difficult in this age, and the distance grows each day, it easy to scrub the web... there is no 'proper' way, but when you feel completely lost, you will know you have begun. The central mystery is transformation. Classical education could be a start...

@@wrongfootmcgee Absolutely my friend

We already have the technology to turn a gas into a metal. It's just not widely useful.

@Elox I do realize I'm incredibly late to the party, but from reading your comment, You said study. I am currently trying to develop a game which I want to orient along alchemy, problem is: I do know next to nothing about it, except the general idea of it and the fact that it was the predecessor to modern Chemistry. So here my question: any books that you could recommend about Alchemy, Witchcraft (specifically potion's/ potion brewing) or Early medicine?

Thats a florence flask.

Kydrou Kair Renner Oudre that would be a bad idea. Imagine if someone dropped it. You would have lead iodide everywhere.

@@nollie_ollie8358 don't drop it

Shayne Hughes wow i never really thought about it like that lol

Great idea 👍

Fakas Crip Build it out of plastic instead of glass

Critical Eats Japan na thats bruce banner

I'ma a what

Critical Eats Japan you're a harry, wizard

This is my first time watching this guy??? His names Harry? Oh Man that joke was "pure gold".... [crickets]

Truly, more than people know.

Ha ha ha, you beat me to it!

Fenrir earth isn't a perfect sphere!!!1!1!1

I think that they actually meant .9 kg

It is about 9 hectograms, you can see how someone might get confused.

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but iam also a stoner... :/

Hwill Hweaton

cool HWIP

Looks more like Ted Cruz.

Eric Wilsey NightHawk is much better looking than Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz looks like Martin Shkreli after a bad childhood.

Here you go: ) kymiaarts as excellent info on true alchemical processes

Try the wordless book. 1500s

@@stev838 is it called "the wordless book" or is it a nickname?

@@grimesresurrection9357 you May get my response I posted it but it can not be found Have to try agin

I’ll try to post agin. It appears it was removed

Also, medieval alchemists would have had access to aqua regia, and would have known whether or not they had made gold.

Both can be done

@@thehungrylittlenihilist and never before in scientific history has a scientist used shady methods in order to avoid their experiment funding being cut off. I think the alchemist being able to distinguish it does exactly remove the plausibility of the theory.

I'm guessing you're an anime fan. Also, no offense, but why can you not spell all that well? Are you not natively an English speaker, or dyslexic or just plain suck at English (I am not trying to be rude, I can't detect social queues well if that makes you fell better XD)

I'm french and ? i'm sure i'm gonna laugh if you speak my language lol. and your answer has no interest, i dont' care, nobody's gonna come to congrat you, you're just here for nothing right ?

Caleb Griffin feel*.... Check yourself before you correct other

Calm down ladies

Titan Senpai thats a different thing but... Do you want one?

Kepkaaa This comment was required, there is a comment about a golden shower in every golden rain video.

Titan Senpai do you like that

Titan Senpai is that a German thing?

Kippenkop Kuikenei ask your mother, she can better explain it

The grandfather of science really, its amazing

That's not what alchemy was. Alchemists were not concerned about learning more about chemistry. Everything was done in secrecy and information sharing was a blunder most of the time. If you want a concret exemple the chemicals bore a wide variety of names. It was a complex system of belief rather fascinating though. It is possible to see a step in the direction of what we call science in the XVII century but as you can see it was a very late development.

Alchemy is Magick. That's where the planetary symbols come from, that's why things are supposed to be made on a certain day. Everything has a sulphur salt and murcury. It's more then just chemistry it's changing physical reality. It's hermetics. 🤦‍♂️

u r blind.

Science is magic

IodIDE

@@MadScientist267 English is not my first language :) ♫ hooked on phonics worked for me. Thanks for the pointer.

your English isn't that bad I wouldn't have realized the difference if you didnt mention it

DA City this was supposed to use ancient methods, which vacuum filtration and a magnetic stirrer isn't

hi sorry for my bad english

Yes it does.

not really, sounds more like the map screen music on Mass Effect 2, but i do want to know what it is.

But we all know it should have been something from Fullmetal Alchemist instead

It's awesome. I wouldn't really say it sounds THAT similar to Uncharted Worlds though.

How's the game coming along?

@@terranovarubacha5473 hit a few roadblocks but still creeping along slowly.

@@ultramegamighty any update on the game? also what programing language are you using?

@@zapmansi107 up to prototyping, and using C# with the Unity engine.

@@ultramegamighty Cool. I don't have much experience with C based languages because I mostly just make ANSI text RPGs in python, but nevertheless I wish you luck on your game.

Ryan Hudson like pooring pure/metallic alcaline metals on it?

That depends on the interpretations/information. It seems some say it lit when it contacted water, others say it was able to stay lit while floating on water. Maybe it was a combination of both? I remember watching a mythbusters episode on it but it's been years.

Alexis Harper or just oil

Definitely not nearly as sweet

@@MadScientist267 Much saltier

@@AverageAnnusEnthusiast how do you know?

@@MadScientist267 how do you know?

@@drBaenz Sodium/salts exit the body through urine. That's why whenever you have too much sodium you get thirsty; your body wants you to drink more water to dissolve the excess sodium to pee it out.