Nigel maxed up his chem skills and now he's moving to alchemy

I swear at this point Nigel's catchphrase should just be, "So I blasted it with a blowtorch"

A similar alloy, minus the zinc, is simply aluminum bronze. Which is really impressive because it retains a similar gold tone but is actually as strong as many grades of steel.

Imagine knowing about this in medieval times. You'd be so rich from selling fake gold

Nigel should make german silver, too, just to fill out his "fake precious metals named after geographic locations" collection

Little tip: If you're adding zinc to a melt where aluminium is also being used, wrap the zinc in a little parcel of aluminium foil, that should help you get the zinc deep into your melt and hopefully help stop the zinc from fuming too much

Thanks for the tutorial, i'm cooking nordic gold for tonight.

"The Tabletop Furnace Company"- I love that there is a company whose mission is to make smelting and foundry work something anyone can just do in their kitchen

an important note from a metalworker: zinc fumes are very dangerous! it can easily poison you if you breath them in, and it’s a hell of a nasty ride getting through even a low grade zinc sickness. any zinc alloys should be treated carefully with plenty of ventilation as soon as heat is applied, as zinc really like to spatter out of alloys

And into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life. One Ring to rule them all.

2:29 is this how horror sounds are made

This takes the saying: "Everything that glitters is not gold" to a whole new level.

“I’ll close the lid and let it cook for a bit” Ah, melted copper: my favourite dish

"It of course isn't actually real gold." Nigel, just admit, you're an alchemist.

This video has all the conbinatory fun of a cooking show, with the dangerous materials of a science show.

2:09 👌good soup

This is amazing. Just mixing some random metals and turning it into gold looking alloy, not gonna lie, if this video was on reverse, I wouldn't have believed it because it looks like real gold

Summarize this channel in one quote: "And it honestly turned out better than I expected."

I like how Nile talks about his scientific experiments like he's cooking them lol

It would be very cool to see other mixes, like sterling silver, black bronze, rose gold and so on :)

"This is a bunch of copper metal, and I want to try turning it into gold." Oh, so we're doing alchemy today, alright

So, apparently it's called "Nordic Gold", because the alloy was invented for some Swedish coins (by a lady working for a Finnish company). It's also used in Polish coins, and some Euro coins. It doesn't really tarnish, and it has some anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties. So... just a decent alloy for coins, basically. Neat.

Dude this guy is so creative in his ideas!

I am very much impressed by your Passion for the experiments which tell us something new each time , we watch your work

He really became the alchemist with this one.

Looked it up: This alloy is used in coins (like the bigger Euro cents), and it can be described as somewhere between bronze and brass or a combination of both

2:30 that was magical

Nordic Gold is a brass alloy with some aluminium and tin added.

2:15 Forbidden Twinkie

What's your hobby? Nile: Cooking What do you cook? Nile: Metals

Could have just got a load of 10c, 20c and 50c coins from the euro zone, we use Nordic gold for the golden coins

If all content was like this on youtube. No bullshit. straight to the case. actually doing what title says, and you don´t drag it out with a lot of crap. Respect.

1:22, 75mL of aluminum metal

Love how nilered shorts combines the professionalism of nilered with the sheer chaos of nileblue making the ultimate shorts channel

I always wondered if you had to actually stir the mix when alloying, at last I can see the actual process, thank you!

1:03 the forbidden orange juice

I've seen other Nordic golds, but really like the color here. So I've got to ask, How much of each metal was used in this alloy?

if the Zinc is burned off why even add it? The vaporization temperature of zinc (about 1600 ° F) lower then the melting point of copper

you make everything sound so easy

NileRed and BigstackD Casting is the crossover we all need

1:13 Nile actually wanted to show us the creation of the first Black Hole image

Love this channel 🎉🎉🎉

Seeing metals melting and an alloy being made is one of the most satisfiyng things to watch

He makes chemistry loveable

Copper pipes are so lovely to work with, the colour of them after you clean the oxidation with sandpaper is the best colour!

i love this type of content

alchemists in middle ages: this is what we were seeking for so many years

Man, Nile’s gold production has really upgraded I remember when you were doing this with paint cans and torches :3

1:38 That shit looks like some kind of divine fire or some shit, damn.

So A) wtf is the spatula made of? The one you used to mix the molten metals without it melting as well. B) How do you clean it after the fact?? Can't quite rinse it in water or anything like that. I feel like my questions are more metallurgy questions than they are chemistry. Lol

Nice content bro, keep it up👌

Nigel should do a whole series on nothing but high temp reactions and metallurgical chemistry.

Im still in shock that this man just woke up and decided to convert copper into gold

Nice pour man!

That cooling down sound is cool sounding

I was so so astonished to see the metal copper melt. That was so satisfying. Thank you for showing this to us.

I love watching metal melt! And the pouring bit… something so satisfying!

Thanks dude

NileRed is the only person that could make a interesting tutorial on how to make a soup of metals

Is no one going to talk about how Nigel always has the most unusual things “lying around?” 😂

This guy makes things that seem impossible to make even if he used magic.

This is a awesome how to your own Nordic gold video! 💕💞

Hey nile loved your content for years i really wish there were more games with reactions as a mechanic of the game and more just hitting craft and learning on your channel will help me try and work something into my game even if it isnt a full periodic table of elements

The sound that came out when you put the gold in the water sounded like a pterosaur lmao

my dad and mum owned a jewelry shop and all the jewelries they used to sell was my father's designs and whenever he had to melt gold or silver I was always watching him melting it cause it was my fav part 🥰🥰🥰 this video brought back memories 😆😆

Just a suggestion: packing the furnace with as little airspace as possible with go a long way to avoid getting O2 into the metl, and when you add the zinc, it won't fume so badly, also if you soak (leave it in the furnace after it's liquefied) your melt any longer than needed you are extending that fuming more than needed. In some cases this can actually cause problems with zinc loss and a change in properties for high-zinc castings.

It looks really similar to actual gold, it's so cool!!

That sound when u placed it into the water thooo

Can we just appreciate how much time he puts in to add in good captions

This is awesome but I miss your longer videos! 😭

i like how u arranged them in the same way when u made actual gold bars

Here in europe some Euro coins (0,10€, 0,20€ and 0,50€) are still made out of Nordic Gold

I swear if I had the instruments, I would do this daily. It seems so fun!

1:57 you make this how cheap no I'm joking u say "cook" that's melting and burns

Like brass with a few extra bits to make it special

How about 'Amazon Gold'? A gold/silver/copper alloy with a special trick. On casting, the alloy looks much like silver, but when treated with a mixture of acids, magic happens! The acids strip away silver and copper, leaving a spongy* surface of pure gold. Rubbing the surface with a burnisher collapses the gold sponge, leaving a thick film of nearly pure gold! For many years, archeologists thought that the gold films were electro-plated! *Nano-scale porosity...it doesn't look like Gold until is is rubbed, rubbing fuses the particles to solid metal.

BigstackD uses a propane furnace, but this electric one looks useful for smaller casting projects. Hope you preheated your molds!

I dont know why your videos were suggested but,....now I cant stop watching them...😄

This made me realise I would like a Nile cooking channel

I made some Nordic Gold for the first time recently, I'll be making more of it because it is very nice to cast with and make all kinds of novelty items and jewelry for only a small fraction of the cost of real gold.

The crystals cooling and cracking when Nile dumped the bar into the water was just 👌

How did you learn all of this! It’s absolutely fascinating!

The sound of it being dunked in the water was so incredibly satisfying

I love your videos bro, I know shorts make more money, I just wish you’d do more full length videos as those tend to be my favorite and I watch them multiple times and all the way through. Please *Nile* if you read this, please do more!

The sound of hot metal being cooled by water is so satisfying, kinda like bacon sizzling on a hot pan.

2:30 sounds so magical

I thought Cu + Zn was called brass... which, incidentally, does have a golden colour

2:25 It looked like it shrunk so much

Not going to lie, I was expecting you to toss it across the floor for the clangy sound, but the shiny is still super neat.

It's no wonder that Nordic gold has become such a sought-after material in the world of precious metals

Cool. When will you release a recipe book chef?

Otherwise known as Aluminum Bronze, a substitute for gold in Minecraft Tinkers Construct when making certain things.

Now I know the meaning of :- " everything that glitters is not gold "

awesome soup recipe!

Wow. Nice recipe 👍

1:42 what is the spoon/stirrer made out of?

0:08 NileRed: Says Furnace me: Minecraft?

I half expected you to say “to get started I just need a particle accelerator”.

That is such a *touchable* shade of orange

Thank you for this tutorial my family enjoyed the meal