Crystals Come From Factories? Discover the secrets of industrial crystal growth.
We need thousands of tons of crystals every year to make all our technology. But where do those crystals come from - a lot of that stuff does not even occur naturally - so it can’t be mined. We actually have factories that make crystals by the ton. Curious about what a crystal factory looks like and how they work? Come along - and we will take a look.
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Brilliant, these videos should be getting millions of views.
I"m glad you enjoyed the video. Its an interesting subject.
You are a good teacher: please make more courses
I have more than 150 videos. Please look though my past catalog of videos and you will find many more that are interesting to you. Also more videos are coming in the future.
Looking forward to learning how to grow crystals!
Coming soon!
Always enjoy your vids. The gold club I attend showed one of your oldies on turquoise mining last month.
Glad to hear that you liked it
Thank you. That was very educational and informative.
Glad you enjoyed it!
this video was awesome
Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed it.
Chris, you remind me of myself when I was young like you. I don't know the size of your platinum crucible, but if it is smaller than a golf ball, I may be able to help you. Back in the late 1970's I was going to grow emerald crystals so I had an engineer design a steel chamber and gave that design to a metal shop to make it for me. That cost me a thousand bucks back then. I collected lots of beryl crystals from pegmatite formations in New England and purchased a furnace and the three additives to copy the deep green of the best gem quality emeralds along with the pH modifier. Then I started saving for a platinum crucible. About then the Soviet Union collapsed and the scientists in Siberia had no work. They started making synthetic emeralds with their free time and flooded the market, so I abandoned the project. The price of beautiful emeralds tanked. Anyway, you are welcome to borrow that steel pressure chamber, if you are interested.
The steel hydro chamber needs a precious metal lining to resist corrosion. I dont want to use a high pressure method - I want to go with the flux method which is dry and has no pressure, just heat.
Very informative Chris. Blessings and love to you and your family and to all the saints.
Thank you kindly, Glad to hear that you liked it.
I climbed to the top of a high peak on the northeast side of the Gold Basin. I saw lots of different quartz. White, blue-green, red. Lots of copper ore, sulfides. Silver ore. I love geology. I know there are many load claims on that mountain, so I was not collecting any, but it's still great to see.
Geology is a very interesting subject.
Fascinating stuff here Chris, I often wondered how they synthesise these gems. Great viewing!
It is amazing how they form these crystals.
cool information !!!!
Glad you think so!
@@ChrisRalph always !!!
Thank you
You're welcome.
Just got your book looking forward to the adventure.
Welcome and best of luck to you.
Thank you Chris. I would be interested to know more about the creation of polycrystalline silicon used in photovoltaic solar cells!
Its not really something I would specially cover, maybe check google - I am sure there is information there.
can't wait to see how to grow crystals with the flux method, I have a machine shop as a hobby (and make model steam, car, and airplane engines) so already have things like a heat-treatment furnace, and would like to try it myself, looking forward to seeing if this is practical as a hobby or a pipe dream.
The flux method requires a precious metal crucible like the platinum one I got. The problem with the hydrothermal method is the high pressures involved can be dangerous. Think what a boiler explosion is like. This would be a much higher pressure. I'll be putting it all to the test later in the summer.
@@ChrisRalph yes, I remember reading about the hydro-thermal method for emeralds many years ago and decided the pressures were not for the hobbyist, best left to the professionals, but the flux method looks a bit safer. and the platinum crucible while expensive isn't consumed or affected in any way so re-sale-able afterwards.
And I got my Pt Crucible for just a small amount over scrap value.
Very interesting information on a topic I knew very little about. Keep up the good work of generating these very educational videos. I enjoy learning new info. Any further thought on joining us at Chicken Alaska in July 2023? If not please let me know as Calvin has a buddy that wants to go if you don't.
I am thinking that I will not be going. My wife insists that I take her to Hawaii instead. She does not want to go to Alaska.
I fully understand the wifes preference for Hawaii instead of Alaska. If your plans change it would be great to see you in Alaska.
I'm going to look forward to you making ruby's and emeralds. But when you learn to make gold. Brother I'm there 😁
Making gold is pretty much not practically possible.
@@ChrisRalph Oh come on Ralph. We all know that the person who discovers how to make gold would say the same thing 😂
The guy who started CVD diamonds taught the AP chem class at UCLA. I was in his class. I think that's how he got his PHD.
I am sure he made some important contributions, but many folks have worked on CVD technology.
1 year ago I purchased a 1 kilo piece if hydrothermally grown (madeira colored) quartz....you could see the seed crystal, I wanted to also purchase hydrothermal emerald material, but for some reason they are much smaller and MUCH more expensive..... each finished piece of the quartz was large, like a kilo, but the emeralds pieces were about 6 or 7 mm thick x 50mm wide x 12mm long
Quartz is much easier to grow.
I am producing electrets. I wonder if you have any thoughts on that. I am using a variety of materials including TiO2 which I must melt.
TiO2 melts at very high temperatures. Some of these crystal growth technologies are difficult to impossible to implement at home or on a budget.
So true. But it has a dialectric constant of 60. I have carbon arc. Plenty of power. I just need it to fuse into a cookie. The Curie point may be much lower.
I can never find the connections you refer to at the bottom of the page.
So first, make sure you are looking at the video when you are not in full screen mode. Underneath the video is the title, then under that are some comments - they are called the description of the video. click on more or read more and it will open up the full description. The links are in there. Let me know if you still cant find them.
Make your presentations with Google slides + Templates / design ready
My video editing program works fine.
I have a gold and silver gemstone, an experienced teacher, please help me.
Best of luck to you.
Do you know of something that acts as. A crystal growth retardant ?. I feel a necessity to grow specific sized piezoelectric crystals to a particular size as a test and use what works to stop the crystal growth upon reaching a certain size. Oh and at 14:56 the ruby looks like an Obama hologram 😁
I know of nothing that would do as you describe.
@@ChrisRalph me either. Gotta do some R&D. Better than grinding cylinders like ruby lasers and other methods of shaping gems. Thanks, if you do hear something I’m interested and so are a lot of people. Think I’ll first see what growing piezoelectric crystals in a thick walled stainless steel tube does. Sounds easiest. ✌️