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Extracting gold from computer parts (Part 1)

NileRed
2016 ж. 18 Шіл.
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Today we recover some gold from scrap computer parts. Also I already know I made a mistake and labelled it 3:1 instead of 2:1. oh well.
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  • *Reads title *looks at old computer Old computer: heavy sweating

    @rafidaabrar8119@rafidaabrar81194 жыл бұрын

    • Haha

      @Local_Felix@Local_Felix3 жыл бұрын

    • Haha

      @projectretro8243@projectretro82433 жыл бұрын

    • nice one 👍

      @professor6947@professor69473 жыл бұрын

    • * softly* Dont

      @danblu2346@danblu23463 жыл бұрын

    • Lol

      @raggednerf4139@raggednerf41393 жыл бұрын

  • 1 - buy expensive chemicals 2 - extract a blank amount of gold 3 - realize you lost money 4 - make a youtube video to try to recover money with adsense

    @esiosalazar@esiosalazar4 жыл бұрын

    • Step 5: Profit

      @mmcad0a951@mmcad0a9514 жыл бұрын

    • Step 6 : *STONKS*

      @guradamuretos9863@guradamuretos98634 жыл бұрын

    • Step 10 - break out of prison then *repeat*

      @zenoctis196@zenoctis1964 жыл бұрын

    • I did notice an add for a collage degree,,,,,,,,,,,

      @williampankratz600@williampankratz6004 жыл бұрын

    • step 12 - hold my beer

      @Glu-R@Glu-R4 жыл бұрын

  • Wife: Honey have you seen any of my laptops? Husband: Forget about your laptops. I got you a gold ring. Happy anniversary!

    @dandatiles8404@dandatiles84043 жыл бұрын

    • all fun and games until his mission is: Survive.

      @maticsss@maticsss3 жыл бұрын

    • @@maticsss Mission failed, we'll try again next time.

      @annee547@annee5472 жыл бұрын

    • Ha! I got a solid chuckle out of this. Thanks, buddy! 👍

      @ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid2 жыл бұрын

    • Sweetie I had to wreck that Honda…. I mean those laptops. And don’t worry about Zed. Zed’s dead baby, Zed’s dead.

      @InertiaCreeps@InertiaCreeps2 жыл бұрын

    • 😂😂 u crazy man!

      @Nyatsimba_Mutota@Nyatsimba_Mutota2 жыл бұрын

  • Actually Old CPUs can be more worth more than the extracted gold itself, the retro computer community does pay really well

    @silentbloodyslayer98@silentbloodyslayer983 жыл бұрын

    • Yep. I am an enthusiast and I would pay

      @the_mariocrafter@the_mariocrafter2 жыл бұрын

    • CPUS pre 2008 are worth their weight in gold Probably more

      @zoompt-lm5xw@zoompt-lm5xw2 жыл бұрын

    • True, but gold is easier to sell.

      @derekpaul4936@derekpaul49362 жыл бұрын

    • and here i am about to throw away a lot of working scraps. 3 old computers and a laptop + spare parts. ddr1-ddr2 range. if i put them up for sale it wouldn't sell, unless i basically give it away for free. got some stuff from mid 90s. however a pentium 3 i threw years ago. i tend to save the ram and hdd's, unfortunately i dont think there's much in a hdd besides a little on the controller. edit: hmm. i have a working C64, even a printer to it.

      @MalhaIIa@MalhaIIa2 жыл бұрын

    • @@zoompt-lm5xw that sounds interesting because i have a 2005 pentium 4 630 in original packaging sitting here, but ebay says 2 dollars 😅

      @derkevevin@derkevevin2 жыл бұрын

  • I like how he can say “ I didn’t have any cyanide” and it’s normal

    @jojowinters7138@jojowinters71384 жыл бұрын

    • did you know you can make that stuff with apple seeds?

      @Chillerll@Chillerll3 жыл бұрын

    • Felix C yes I did that’s why dogs cannot have them

      @jojowinters7138@jojowinters71383 жыл бұрын

    • Well, you just run out of the stuff sometimes.

      @eva-lota9701@eva-lota97013 жыл бұрын

    • Felix C and cherry pits

      @johnarooskivlogs9818@johnarooskivlogs98183 жыл бұрын

    • @@Chillerll yes. just have him buy like 50 apples just to remove the seeds and extract the microscopic amount there is.

      @TheBurnknight@TheBurnknight3 жыл бұрын

  • Try with antique computers. The gold plating is usually thicker tho. Like a lot

    @henryjiang9664@henryjiang96646 жыл бұрын

    • also most of the gold is in the cpu's. pentium 1 and pentium 2 have approximately 1-2g

      @americanengineering2063@americanengineering20635 жыл бұрын

    • Extra *THICC*

      @thestarskynight3291@thestarskynight32915 жыл бұрын

    • @@americanengineering2063 Pentium Pro ;) 1994/1995. Best gold amount.

      @heritagekebek9979@heritagekebek99795 жыл бұрын

    • I’m currently harvesting gold from an old computer 1998

      @smithy1578@smithy15784 жыл бұрын

    • @@smithy1578 If it still works, or parts of it still work, sell the computer online instead of scraping it. you can make 3-4x as much.

      @kennysboat4432@kennysboat44324 жыл бұрын

  • Your instructions were unclear, I ended up doing methamphetamine

    @amonolithmember1115@amonolithmember11154 жыл бұрын

    • Porro lol

      @raphaelmad3485@raphaelmad34854 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah that’ll get you happened to my dad too

      @Brennanrr@Brennanrr3 жыл бұрын

    • Hey, that's illegal...

      @canadiancop3967@canadiancop39673 жыл бұрын

    • Do you realize that it says "Part 1"?

      @syntax6029@syntax60293 жыл бұрын

    • Lul

      @kevinmiller2210@kevinmiller22103 жыл бұрын

  • "I didn't have any cyanide" Boy, I can relate.

    @KingThrillgore@KingThrillgore4 жыл бұрын

    • I did this and do you know what I made golden cyanide

      @randomanimations1621@randomanimations16213 жыл бұрын

    • @@randomanimations1621 goldide

      @ok1025@ok10253 жыл бұрын

    • @@ok1025 exactly

      @randomanimations1621@randomanimations16213 жыл бұрын

    • @@randomanimations1621 mp

      @realipadgaming109@realipadgaming1093 жыл бұрын

    • l

      @realipadgaming109@realipadgaming1093 жыл бұрын

  • Summary of gold recovering business: 1. Add acid 2. stir 3. filter 4. repeat and repeat 5. Realizing it's not making money.

    @nsshing@nsshing5 жыл бұрын

    • Then you realize you need shithole country slave workers...

      @JonitoFischer@JonitoFischer4 жыл бұрын

    • Had my yacht already ordered... D'oh

      @misterfister6096@misterfister60964 жыл бұрын

    • realizing it’s not making money? *visual frustration*

      @jasongts@jasongts4 жыл бұрын

    • Realizing it's more expensive than gold.

      @manda3dprojects966@manda3dprojects9664 жыл бұрын

    • Good luck trying to sell those gold

      @phamdinhhoang1998@phamdinhhoang19984 жыл бұрын

  • shout out to the ant at 6:52 i hope you're living a good life

    @cal5750@cal57504 жыл бұрын

    • That ant is dead now.

      @335d-Lane@335d-Lane4 жыл бұрын

    • Along with my will to live

      @Cam_23554@Cam_235544 жыл бұрын

    • Whoa... Can you marry me?

      @vapecat4428@vapecat44284 жыл бұрын

    • Who are you talking to?

      @Cam_23554@Cam_235544 жыл бұрын

    • boil space is fake as hell and the government is spraying hormones on our babies.

      @335d-Lane@335d-Lane4 жыл бұрын

  • I usually put the aqua regia beaker into a warm water bath to speed up the reaction. I use urea (which is very cheap) to bring up the pH, and then precipitate with warmed metabisulfite solution. Warming the neutralized gold chloride and metabisulfite, I found, caused almost instantaneous precipitation of all the gold into a sponge-form, which is then very easy to recover.

    @Alondro77@Alondro773 жыл бұрын

  • 1) The green color is copper, silver and small amounts of platinum metals 2) The Aqua Regia and acid amounts DO affect the resulting recovery efficiency. 3) Grinding or burning the boards means that step 1 takes a day or 2 instead of a week.

    @michaelglover9214@michaelglover92143 жыл бұрын

  • many computer repair places will just give you pcb's if you ask. they tend to have a ton and dont recycle them on their own.

    @EvilSl0th@EvilSl0th7 жыл бұрын

    • Really, I'll have to remember that

      @noahcarlton4625@noahcarlton46255 жыл бұрын

    • Yep, I fill a 40ft shipping container every year.

      @EvolvedApe@EvolvedApe4 жыл бұрын

    • @@EvolvedApe That's interesting. What do you do with the container? I have a business already but always interested in different business models and how they function.

      @aquilatempestate9527@aquilatempestate95274 жыл бұрын

    • @@aquilatempestate9527 Last year, a guy bought it all for $8000, container included. Don't have a buyer this year. Apparently the Korean guy I sold to last year retired and moved to the Philippines.

      @EvolvedApe@EvolvedApe4 жыл бұрын

    • @@EvolvedApe Thanks for the response chap. Was he selling it in Asia?

      @aquilatempestate9527@aquilatempestate95274 жыл бұрын

  • these videos are very soothing and good before bed

    @snackentity5709@snackentity57095 жыл бұрын

    • Nile's videos are better than porn

      @UltimatelyEverything@UltimatelyEverything4 жыл бұрын

    • I've been using them to treat my insomnia

      @danielebonadeo1816@danielebonadeo18164 жыл бұрын

    • I listen to them to help sleep

      @Alleycat041@Alleycat0413 жыл бұрын

    • This guy must really like his coffee filters.

      @daniellestewart4646@daniellestewart46463 жыл бұрын

    • I have been using them to make a wooden rifle out of a stop sign and 2 Macintosh computers.

      @d.plaguethedocter8542@d.plaguethedocter85423 жыл бұрын

  • can we all agree that Nigel’s voice is very soothing and makes you feel good

    @h.fmusic6767@h.fmusic67673 жыл бұрын

    • Wow I feel good I knew that I would now so good so good

      @randomanimations1621@randomanimations16213 жыл бұрын

    • His voice ain't got nothing on Lock Picking Lawyer lol. Guy has the voice of an angel

      @prestonspencer6094@prestonspencer60943 жыл бұрын

    • @@prestonspencer6094 you obviously don’t know about Ed Bolian from VINwiki

      @mikehawk1673@mikehawk16733 жыл бұрын

    • @@mikehawk1673 man but still though lol lock picking lawyer got the voice of an angel 😂😂

      @prestonspencer6094@prestonspencer60943 жыл бұрын

    • You're the first person i've heard say that. I don't think most the viewers are here for his voice

      @W-I463@W-I4632 жыл бұрын

  • I'm in the middle of recovering gold from a variety of junk I've had sitting around for ages. Dead computer/phone parts, gold-plated connectors, and unassembled prototype PCBs. I'm using hydrogen peroxide and vinegar, which is working great for how simple it is. It only really dissolves copper, but that'll get gold off of PCBs and some contacts. Pretty sure I spent *way* more time than it's worth recovering this stuff. Really, I only have _maybe_ half a gram here if I'm being optimistic. But hey, I'm having fun and getting an excuse to buy cool glassware.

    @tyttuut@tyttuut3 жыл бұрын

  • Funny thing, I actually worked at the factory that these exact PCBs. Those are actually test coupons. I can tell by the silkscreen code on the coupons.

    @Gohitov2@Gohitov25 жыл бұрын

    • Pa

      @blairsalk878@blairsalk8785 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah right. And I dated Bill Skarsgard in college.

      @justinhamilton8647@justinhamilton86473 жыл бұрын

  • A lot of times computer scrap will contain lead. I noticed you did not add sulfuric to drop out lead before adding SMB to your solution. Hopefully these PCB's were lead free, or your gold is going to be contaminated. I have been watching sreetips channel. That guy has been doing this a long time, and seems to have perfected every method. I also love watching Cody'sLab (who I see also commented here), but sreetips is the one i always tend to go back to when I have any questions. But I love your's and Cody's channels because you guys are actually chemists, and describe the actual chemical processes that are happening. Keep up the awesome work. I love how you can actually learn things on KZhead and it is not all just stupidity, conspiracy theories, and bickering. You guys who are hear to teach the world, are what make KZhead great, in my opinion.

    @uspockdad6429@uspockdad64297 жыл бұрын

    • The boards in the video look like boards that were scrapped before ever being assembled.

      @petermichaelgreen@petermichaelgreen6 жыл бұрын

    • Here

      @Kero7th@Kero7th3 жыл бұрын

    • There is always lead in computer chips. The soldering iron contains lead.

      @kokoslegend4850@kokoslegend48503 жыл бұрын

    • @@kokoslegend4850 Actually it's tin, not lead.

      @frankrodgers7524@frankrodgers75243 жыл бұрын

    • @@frankrodgers7524 it is in most cases made from a mixture of lead and tin. However, there are lead free variants.

      @kokoslegend4850@kokoslegend48503 жыл бұрын

  • You can also use dilute nitric acid for the initial cleaning of the boards. Weak nitric acid easily removes copper and nickel, but won't touch gold, platinum, palladium, or rhodium at all. It will dissolve silver, but so does HCl and peroxide.

    @Alondro77@Alondro773 жыл бұрын

  • *FBI questions why you need cyanide, what is your response?:* "I"m devolving gold from computer parts."

    @Tritailed-Shenanigans@Tritailed-Shenanigans4 жыл бұрын

    • FBI: ...from tooth fillings ya mean?

      @ALCRAN2010@ALCRAN20103 жыл бұрын

    • *dissolving

      @turtle7792@turtle77923 жыл бұрын

    • Sorry- devolving?

      @Payday5@Payday53 жыл бұрын

    • Lol not really an issue

      @MadScientist267@MadScientist2672 жыл бұрын

  • I would love to see you redo this with different computer parts or materials and a few more years experience to see how it affects your yield/profit. Extracting precious material from junk is so cool to me, even if it's not technically worth it.

    @MerlinTheBird@MerlinTheBird2 жыл бұрын

  • It seems like even if you know exactly what parts to buy, that when you take into account the cost of materials, the time hunting down the right deals, and the time put in to the actual recovery, that the profit per hour would be less than a minimum wage job.

    @hlalakar4156@hlalakar41562 жыл бұрын

    • Unless you scavenge the parts themselves for free by scavenging them from trash cans or electronics disposal boxes, for example I salvage the computer parts I find from the electronic disposal box in front of the IT department at school, long as you wait till you have enough computer scrap to net you a profit in return of gold per refinement process you should be good, but obv it won't give you as much money as a minimum wage job, it is more of a side income no matter what

      @MonsterPumpkin@MonsterPumpkin2 жыл бұрын

    • @@MonsterPumpkin time involved scavaging would likely make it worse than the awful money you'd get anyway

      @bradhaines3142@bradhaines3142 Жыл бұрын

  • i like how the disclaimer at the beginning says not to try this but he also gives us exact directions and amounts of everything as if we were going to do it

    @swagifier1170@swagifier11703 жыл бұрын

  • This is luxury thing :diamond :gold :gold solution

    @martiaz3039@martiaz30394 жыл бұрын

  • +NileRed very nice video

    @indeedItdoes@indeedItdoes7 жыл бұрын

    • indeedItdoes

      @Rafi-hb9eu@Rafi-hb9eu6 жыл бұрын

    • ok

      @internationalspacestation1988@internationalspacestation19884 жыл бұрын

    • Roarke Barrett ok

      @flup1303@flup13034 жыл бұрын

    • Roarke Barrett O k t h e n

      @LumiOfFrost@LumiOfFrost4 жыл бұрын

    • Nileblue Nilered Nilegreen

      @Kayshots@Kayshots3 жыл бұрын

  • 0:58 we're not breaking even we're breaking bad

    @tatendam4956@tatendam49562 жыл бұрын

  • it's 2 am in the morning and I have 3 more assignments to complete then now I'm learning to extract Gold from old tech parts. Great!

    @phongvu4068@phongvu40684 жыл бұрын

  • Aquarium pumps are meant to have a bubbler stone at the output end of the tube. That disperses the air coming through the hose into hundreds of tiny streams of air making incredibly small bubbles.

    @Rowgue51@Rowgue51 Жыл бұрын

  • Made a twitter! twitter.com/NileRed2

    @NileRed@NileRed7 жыл бұрын

    • can you do a video on how to recover palladium from MLCC's?

      @pinksapphire2898@pinksapphire28987 жыл бұрын

    • u could have just scrap off the gold from the computer part or carefully heat to separate the gold that was put on that computer part. why wait 2 weeks and use so much materials and ruin all other computer parts to get the gold off and polluting environment with so many chemicals ??

      @meri5731@meri57317 жыл бұрын

    • meri You seem very uninformed. I'd recommend doing even slight research on what you're talking about, but you probably wouldn't listen.

      @caughtspeechless3288@caughtspeechless32887 жыл бұрын

    • YOU MADE TWITTER?

      @Salmanul_@Salmanul_6 жыл бұрын

    • Hey man great videos . Love your work. So I did the gold extraction as a project for an assignment at school. Followed almost all the steps you did except I used HNO3 to get rid of all the base metals.Then I dissolved the gold obtained in aqua regia .To precipitate it I'd used Sodium MetaBisulphite. On adding the first few spoons, there were tiny black clouds formed, But after that nothing much seemed to be happening even after adding more metabisulphite. I've a hunch that i used a tadtoo much of Aqua regia. Even after 2 hours there was no sign of any precipitation. Did I do something wrong like adding excess of metabisulphite or would i have to wait longer? Around 0.25g of gold is expected to be there. And i used mainly ram and data card trimmings. So what do you suggest I do?

      @rohitchandrahas@rohitchandrahas6 жыл бұрын

  • Very familiar with this process, very nice first try. I use the same process to recover gold from slag (I process small amounts of other metals from other ores). My first few attempts weren't very efficient to say the least :)

    @brianreddeman951@brianreddeman9517 жыл бұрын

  • Some PCBs are have whole-board ENIG, which means stripping the solder resist with strong base might expose more copper pour and help recover more gold.

    @diansong1394@diansong13942 жыл бұрын

  • my old calculators from middle school served me well, now it's time to use one to calculate how much gold I could get from them edit: I got about 44 Canadian dollars

    @NathanJamesJerritze@NathanJamesJerritze2 жыл бұрын

    • Nice one.

      @Green24152@Green241522 жыл бұрын

    • Nice

      @jafargames1196@jafargames11962 жыл бұрын

    • Nice.

      @quickdrawmcgraw3567@quickdrawmcgraw35672 жыл бұрын

  • whos with me for a colab of Nile red and Cody slab🙆

    @danpearson3692@danpearson36927 жыл бұрын

    • That would be awesome! It will probably happen one day

      @NileRed@NileRed7 жыл бұрын

    • No, they should be roomies. Or at least share a lab. Who knows what they could do for humanity, when they combine their powers.

      @blzahz7633@blzahz76336 жыл бұрын

    • One problem tho, one lives in Canada and the other lives in Utah of America

      @viktorjangsell1849@viktorjangsell18495 жыл бұрын

    • nile red is much more professional ;P

      @deelee6786@deelee67865 жыл бұрын

    • I love Cody slab lol

      @galenhutcherson6140@galenhutcherson61405 жыл бұрын

  • I’d like to see a video on how to extract gold from old dental crowns that were removed by my dentist. And no, I didn’t let the dentist keep them! I think this would be a much different process (as it’s big chunks mixed with other metals, and not gold plated).

    @coloradokid8321@coloradokid83213 жыл бұрын

    • Dude I was wondering this with PCBs (work for a CM). Some of them are able to solder WAY better than others even though all get gold plating and, to the eye, look identical from one array to another. I suspect crappy gold mixed with other junk in your case as well as mine.

      @wonderbars36@wonderbars362 жыл бұрын

  • wanted something I could try, ended up in a chemistry class :). thanks man

    @kurbonmirzoaliev9600@kurbonmirzoaliev96004 жыл бұрын

    • .. . .

      @RyanSmith-wo2pi@RyanSmith-wo2pi4 жыл бұрын

  • 0:58 I know you already did by uploading this video 😁 This channel is a treasure, worth more than gold

    @Monkey_D_Luffy56@Monkey_D_Luffy56 Жыл бұрын

  • This guy must really like his coffee filters.

    @gaimz1855@gaimz18556 жыл бұрын

  • Processors with pins are a great source, FYI.

    @PinkShades@PinkShades5 жыл бұрын

    • @@Jasperr9999 at least it’s quite an easy process, only time when that’s great

      @RandomHandle837@RandomHandle8372 жыл бұрын

  • 6:45 you can also tie a loose knot in the air tubing and slowly tighten it to get your desired bubble rate

    @Drewhardin96@Drewhardin962 жыл бұрын

  • Hey... You've saved a life today, and I want you to know that i'm very grateful for you. I love you and please keep going.

    @randyjohnson3654@randyjohnson36543 жыл бұрын

  • KZhead recommendation: "Extracting gold from computer parts" Me: "finally a good way to get money" Me: *clicks on the video* Video: *chemistry* Me: "ight imma head out"

    @hasanyousef6782@hasanyousef67824 жыл бұрын

    • Turns out he didn't even make money, he wasn't even close to breaking even! To actually turn a profit you need to upsize this operation by a ton... So that is a shame.

      @asiansupport630@asiansupport6304 жыл бұрын

  • I tried to start a business like this, because I had access to a lot of junk electronics in my job just after high school. I talked to my high school chemistry teacher to try to get some help but she didn't trust me lol

    @cannadaddoit7460@cannadaddoit74603 жыл бұрын

  • "I moved the gold to the front so you could really see what was going on in this step" *pop up ad immediately covers the front of the beaker*

    @ashwood8933@ashwood89333 жыл бұрын

  • I feel that crushing the parts or grinding them prior to adding the acid can make the process faster and might give more gold as the surface area of reaction increase. But again this can only really work if the suspension made is not allowed to settle and you have to make sure not to waste a lot of the powder from grinding it.

    @amalprakash6337@amalprakash63374 жыл бұрын

  • 13:33 ... Black Gold. Texas Tea. Oil, that is.

    @dizzious@dizzious7 жыл бұрын

  • Processors, RAM, and anything with a PCI-E bus aren't bad choices. Connectors (processor pins, RAM buses, PCI-E buses) are what are most commonly gold-plated because gold being soft and conductive confers desirable properties when plating connectors.

    @zj6074@zj60746 жыл бұрын

  • Hey Nile, I love watching your channels even though I don't understand most it. Anyways, could you do a video on extracting platinum from dirt you get from highways?

    @derekpaul4936@derekpaul49362 жыл бұрын

  • Good suggestions, warnings, and use of language to indicate precautions necessary. This process includes some chemistry notes, and it helps people understand what you are doing.

    @alecscotthardyii8805@alecscotthardyii88053 жыл бұрын

  • I like it when he says "Gold."

    @CarlosRios1@CarlosRios17 жыл бұрын

    • @@gavindao6754 Ayy Twoset

      @GiGitteru@GiGitteru4 жыл бұрын

  • this is how people get gold in the future, nile is way ahead of his time.

    @Ray-mw1fx@Ray-mw1fx6 жыл бұрын

    • Ray well, u can get cancer and various diseases and body functions disorders from doing this in long term

      @rainalane1638@rainalane16385 жыл бұрын

    • you know the people who make this need the gold to inject it into the computer scrap, right?

      @deadbush2812@deadbush28125 жыл бұрын

    • Nah they'll probably make it in labs

      @art_and_sh.t4265@art_and_sh.t42655 жыл бұрын

    • Does he wear suits or does he just wear gloves

      @saddog8087@saddog80874 жыл бұрын

    • Nah, gold will be worthless because of asteroid mining

      @BirdTurdMemes@BirdTurdMemes4 жыл бұрын

  • “I’m personally not even close to a master at gold recovery” is such an Alpha statement I can’t explain why

    @PuzzleFactoryProd@PuzzleFactoryProd Жыл бұрын

  • omfg that filter adjustment at 8:10 was heaven! 😍 I was *immediately* annoyed by the way it crumpled, and then you immediately rescued my rapidly-deteriorating emotional state by fixing it. Thanks, man. I was only a few seconds away from losing my shit there. lol

    @ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid2 жыл бұрын

    • that's called fluted filter paper folding in chemistry

      @abdullahmehmood8342@abdullahmehmood8342 Жыл бұрын

  • "Little bit of chemical treatment" *explains the process in 3 videos*

    @abelsumanas@abelsumanas4 жыл бұрын

    • 🤣

      @J.J_18@J.J_184 жыл бұрын

  • Hi man! Your channel is great and I learn a lot from it. Gold recicling is a thing that needs a lot of reasurch and practice. What I've probably spotted in your video, and what I think is a mistake is that you did not neutralise the aqua regia solution before adding the metabisulfite, which resulted in immediate re-desolving of the perticipated gold, which one can see on the the immediate gas that was emmited after the addition.... I made that mistake and it cost me maybe 10-15 g. of gold and me running around trying to fix things... What do you think - IMO you have to neutralise with urea or pottasium bicarbonate before SMB addition... Waiting for your thoughts on that... Regards form Sofia, Bulgaria!

    @petkotzvetkov6528@petkotzvetkov65287 жыл бұрын

    • How much urea would you add? Just as much as needed to get a neutral pH?

      @gabrielsanabriaibieta@gabrielsanabriaibieta Жыл бұрын

  • Instructions unclear, my stomach is now plated in computer parts

    @diamondkonk1196@diamondkonk11963 жыл бұрын

  • best use of my computer according to parents

    @SharfKnows@SharfKnows8 ай бұрын

  • 0:00 "Wow I'm rich." 14:20 "Oh, forget it."

    @randomthings5518@randomthings55183 жыл бұрын

  • 0:29 gamer juice

    @keiju7588@keiju75882 жыл бұрын

  • Hi Nilered, thank u 4 your videos. I've just did the experiment on cell phone boards and it was good until the last stage :( I used extra sodium metabisulphite (i didn't mix it with water and used two spoonful powder of it) . a white power settled and the solution turned red. No gold. By the way i used edible sodium metabisulphite )

    @marlikparsi7259@marlikparsi72594 жыл бұрын

  • He sounds no older or younger than today. His video as a whole looks no older than today. I also have no idea what half the chemicals he is talking about. Amazing.

    @gameboylyrik2801@gameboylyrik2801 Жыл бұрын

  • My Old Windows: uh oh.... My Broken Laptop: oh shit... Me: *slowly putting on Gloves*

    @SimpIySimpIe@SimpIySimpIe4 жыл бұрын

    • Hahahahahah

      @BeefCurtains42069@BeefCurtains420693 жыл бұрын

    • Robotsnake20's Broken Laptop After seeing Robotsnake20 put's gloves on: aw fuck...

      @leawilson5177@leawilson51773 жыл бұрын

  • Can you make a video on extracting silver from film

    @sorsorscience0787@sorsorscience07877 жыл бұрын

  • This is why these companies be holding these computer recycling events.

    @atribecalledjudah5436@atribecalledjudah54364 жыл бұрын

  • KZhead finally recommends this after 3 years

    @dkycolorful7340@dkycolorful73404 жыл бұрын

  • This guy rlly gets gold from anything mad respect for you bro

    @sara-lv8tg@sara-lv8tg2 жыл бұрын

  • Could you please make video about extracting silver from x-ray films

    @xspeeder2009@xspeeder20097 жыл бұрын

    • I would watch this

      @ExpiredCartonOfEggNogg@ExpiredCartonOfEggNogg7 жыл бұрын

    • +Lord_Lammington Me too

      @nixietubes@nixietubes6 жыл бұрын

    • Here's what you're looking for. Sreetips is pretty much the best on youtube and truly covers the entire process. kzhead.info/sun/Y9inXcVoimJ8d3A/bejne.html

      @Enjoymentboy@Enjoymentboy5 жыл бұрын

    • yo!

      @cheesecakelasagna@cheesecakelasagna5 жыл бұрын

  • You used "unused" PCB scraps. They were never be soldered. But for recycling you would more likely find completely soldered gold pads (except for connectors or edge card connectors, which would be most preferable I guess). Would you use a different solvent in this case, or would the soft solder be dissolved as easily using the same chemicals?

    @juweinert@juweinert4 жыл бұрын

  • Cool video! Have you ever done one on recovering silver and maybe antimony from a sulfide ore ?

    @austinbambooinc2507@austinbambooinc25079 ай бұрын

  • I love your videos, they help me when I have trouble sleeping

    @atlasellis8604@atlasellis86046 жыл бұрын

    • weirdo !

      @PHlophe@PHlophe4 жыл бұрын

  • NileRed, your videos are great; I have learned how to make many interesting things from you. That said, I have a n00b question: how does the aquaregia not utterly destroy the coffee filters and the plastic funnel?

    @drewjaqua2905@drewjaqua29054 жыл бұрын

    • Aqua regia don't really disolve plastics well. I guess that the funnel was made out of HDPE or PP plastic which are reasonably resistant to acids. Filter paper though, I think it would react with it, I assume it just hadn't have enough time to destroy it.

      @bagniacz3264@bagniacz32642 жыл бұрын

  • Great chemistry lesson!

    @kagobonestalker1487@kagobonestalker14874 жыл бұрын

  • I love the bug photo bomb at 6:50 lmao 😂

    @trumpatier@trumpatier Жыл бұрын

  • 6:52 aww how sweet. You brought on a guest :-)

    @jhyland87@jhyland875 жыл бұрын

  • Never destroy a working older part. Plenty of people looking to build retro gaming rigs out there. That old 80486 or Pentium chip is likely worth far more to a collector / gamer than as scrap. Even bent or missing pint can be fixed on really old chips. More modern chips like the P4 on up are much harder to fix once broken. But an early Pentium or 386/486 can be easily fixed.

    @harshbarj@harshbarj3 жыл бұрын

  • man , it got recommended now(finally)

    @nanadeeee@nanadeeee3 жыл бұрын

  • This is really satisfying

    @HalfXlll@HalfXlll3 жыл бұрын

  • 2016: Extracting gold from computer parts 2020: Extracting computer parts from gold

    @mosesb8896@mosesb88964 жыл бұрын

  • I like how he sounds surprised that he doesn't have cyanide on hand.

    @foarest@foarest3 жыл бұрын

  • This is a new way to get rid from some electronic parts and save gold for the future

    @casluu0089@casluu00894 жыл бұрын

  • 0:08 I did think he maked a "computer juice"

    @lukkasqueirozii8856@lukkasqueirozii88563 жыл бұрын

  • The mason jar says potassium metabisulfite while you said sodium metabisulfite.

    @FantomZap@FantomZap7 жыл бұрын

    • +Ryan Tooher (FantomZap) wow i have no idea how i did that. Nice catch though. It actually is potassium metabisulfite. I messed up, but in the end it doesnt really matter. Both work equally as well

      @NileRed@NileRed7 жыл бұрын

    • +NileRed lol, its all good.

      @FantomZap@FantomZap7 жыл бұрын

  • POV: You are getting this video recommended 5 years.

    @awesomehp@awesomehp3 жыл бұрын

    • True.

      @DzakiPedia@DzakiPedia3 жыл бұрын

    • !true

      @tba3625@tba36253 жыл бұрын

  • 6:52 A bug runnin! Those were your good ol days!

    @martine-e-dee@martine-e-dee Жыл бұрын

  • He is the only person to ever say I’m fresh out of Cyanide 😂😂

    @the_animal_ark@the_animal_ark3 жыл бұрын

  • Me :"watching the video" My computer : Oh man i'm dead...

    @ohgames9736@ohgames97364 жыл бұрын

  • Did you know that a lot of people in Africa actually make their living doing this?

    @anthonybeervor2265@anthonybeervor22656 жыл бұрын

    • (+prophetchannel) And a lot of those same people also recover data on the hard drives and sometimes find government data (from the master cryptographers) that can be sold. Most of the time it’s just regular hard drives where you find normal people things.

      @GogiRegion@GogiRegion6 жыл бұрын

    • Sadly a lot of poor Africans will burn electronics to extract various metals. They don't realize they inhale dangerous fumes and poison nearby drinking water sources which causes horrible birth defects.

      @chr1s83@chr1s835 жыл бұрын

    • @@chr1s83 sadly? Lol luckily instead

      @franc5016@franc50164 жыл бұрын

    • @@franc5016 whAt

      @somethingsomething1237@somethingsomething12374 жыл бұрын

    • @@franc5016 maybe you didn't read my entire comment. It poisons rivers and leads to horrible birth defects in people and animals

      @chr1s83@chr1s834 жыл бұрын

  • Next video will be making a bomb out of paper, I swear this dude can make everything out of anything

    @dxov1597@dxov15973 жыл бұрын

  • Why is this so fascinating.

    @Dominicthedonkey@Dominicthedonkey4 жыл бұрын

  • 6:59 never say basic in a chemistry video unless you mean it has a pH greater than 7😂

    @aryamankejriwal5959@aryamankejriwal59596 жыл бұрын

    • That timestamp is almost basic

      @zaggernut5054@zaggernut50545 жыл бұрын

    • Aryaman Kejriwal this comment tastes like basic oxide

      @bluedott8177@bluedott81775 жыл бұрын

  • is the recovery from processors the same as from RAMs? I mean, should I do something different to separate the gold from the metallic connections, or it's the same as you do for RAMs?

    @matteoberardi1655@matteoberardi16556 жыл бұрын

    • why are u trying this bro

      @annya26@annya26 Жыл бұрын

  • Using any means of restriction on an aquarium air pump hose to reduce the rate may cause the motor itself to catch fire. There are cheap products that do this without running the risk of fire, or (most likely) failure.

    @franciscovicente5211@franciscovicente52112 жыл бұрын

  • I love you Nile!

    @Strange_Brew@Strange_Brew3 жыл бұрын

  • Me: I would like to be rich. My KZhead Recommendations System: Yes.

    @mr_derpaderpy4107@mr_derpaderpy41074 жыл бұрын

  • This was really cool, I also wonder if you can extract copper from PCBs because I imagine there’s a fair bit more copper than gold. If you can come up with a process where you can extract both substances then it might be easier to make recycling profitable

    @markhaus@markhaus2 жыл бұрын

    • You should be able to isolate the copper from the acid, its basicly a stew of a bunch of materials you can take all of them out one by one with the right treatments, however you can't extract multiple metals at once or at least I wouldn't advise it because then you have to seperate them again which is just more money down the sink, literally

      @MonsterPumpkin@MonsterPumpkin2 жыл бұрын

  • what about using acetone to dissolve the plastic, removing the gold from the plastic? would the acetone react with the gold?

    @3eezie483@3eezie4837 ай бұрын

  • BIG thumps up to this boy.. love it

    @PoorMiners321@PoorMiners3213 жыл бұрын

  • Nice new icon dude

    @AdamNoone@AdamNoone7 жыл бұрын

    • It looks really good

      @ltnugget@ltnugget7 жыл бұрын

    • Thanks!

      @NileRed@NileRed7 жыл бұрын

    • NileRed ayyy, no problem sciencebro

      @AdamNoone@AdamNoone7 жыл бұрын

    • I preferred the old one

      @the1derpface@the1derpface7 жыл бұрын

  • I've watched your videos for years and I'm a huge fan of your channel. I have a proposition, do you have a way I could contact you? Basically I have a few buckets of gold ore, here's the thing its mixed with tellurium. There is even a big huge chunk of elemental tellurium. Ive read that its one of the most rare of all finds I've also read it can be slightly radioactive. If you would be interested in processing some of this ore for a how-to video on the ore or if you have any use for the tellurium as well.im not exactly sure about shipping the hunk with the elemental tellurium though because I'm not really trying to break any crazy laws or anything

    @adamjung558@adamjung5582 жыл бұрын

    • I hope you get a response! I'd love to see a video on that. I don't know anything about tellurium at all.

      @MerlinTheBird@MerlinTheBird2 жыл бұрын

  • I get quite a lot from industrial electronics specifically radio/microwave transmission equipment there’s serious amounts

    @chicken69tenders@chicken69tenders3 жыл бұрын

  • This must be the Gold Experience!

    @onii-chan9134@onii-chan91343 жыл бұрын
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