Platinum Recovery from Laboratory Chemical Waste (pt 1)
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8 жыл бұрынIn this video we recover platinum from platinum containing laboratory chemical waste.
This is a bit different from recovering platinum in more common items like catalytic converters and jewellery because in laboratory waste the platinum is sometimes protected by extremely resilient ligands in organometallic complexes. Therefore we have to process the waste first and remove the organics before we can start on the platinum.
To do that we first remove all the volatile compounds, mostly organics solvents, by a successive series of boiling and heating to higher temperatures. Finally we incinerate (or "ignite" as chemists say) the resulting dry waste to actually destroy the organic complexes. We use a torch to get it red hot and keep going until no more fumes or smoke appear. Then we wash the ash several times in boiling water and filter. The resulting powder now contains platinum and other metals and metal oxides.
In the next part of this series we'll actually refine the platinum from the other metals.
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@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
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@timnone2924 8 жыл бұрын
potentially dangerous actions...such a stupid thing to demonetize for
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+TheHorseHat its not the consumer problem. its the advertisers. none of this has to do with KZfaq. just the advertisers
@Arsonist42 8 жыл бұрын
wtf, this is ridiculous. these kinds of videos are so instructive...
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You have all content backed up I assume?
@NextGenAge 8 жыл бұрын
Are you also on Sciencemadness? I would love to follow any of your work there. Keep up the good work man I really enjoy watching your videos! Science must not die!!
@volvok7749 8 жыл бұрын
A collab with Cody's Lab would be awesome! Actually it would not, you would kill each other over safety protocols....
@TheMixedupstuff 8 жыл бұрын
I think they would actually play along nicely. He has dunked his hand in liquid nitrogen before...
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I'd love to see that, also because NerdRage would be in person but probably not show his face. So you'd have cody then a masked man in a lab coat.
@Oodain 7 жыл бұрын
why? cant one mention two people with similar interests in the same sentence if they arent of equal skill?
@illustriouschin 6 жыл бұрын
Then Cody would learn Nurdrage's secret identity.
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@G3HP 8 жыл бұрын
KZfaq is not playing nice lately, we all know. Hang on in there.... even if it requires external sponsors to do so. Just don't let this channel die a second time. It's one of the best chemistry channels on youtube, your increasing sub count should tell you that :-D
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Honestly, I‘m astonished that I only found out about your Channel a few months ago. Your work is incredible. I‘ve been watching Cody and NileRed for years now (probably almost as long as my highschool career which is almost ending) but what you do is great. Especially your sodiumproduction with easily available reagents. Keep up the great work.
@emilalmberg1096 7 жыл бұрын
I learn so much of your movies. Thank you for all your trouble!
@comedyeffect273 7 жыл бұрын
now when ever i read something i cant help but hear your voice narrating it!
@GravelLeft 8 жыл бұрын
This was a really interesting and entertaining video! Great work, as always!^^
@Zendukai 8 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video, thanks Nurdrage!
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This was awesome
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Wow I can really appreciate the step up in video quality!
@ChrisMuncy 8 жыл бұрын
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An excellent video.
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@WhatWillHappenIf0 8 жыл бұрын
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@tarrySubstance 8 жыл бұрын
best good demonstration of chemistry
@steubens7 8 жыл бұрын
i liked this video, more about recovering waste from organic chemistry or chemistry in general would be great! maybe even ones for just neutralizing waste that's hard to dispose of
@StreuB1 8 жыл бұрын
4K goodness Great video!!!
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Congratulations.
@indeedItdoes 8 жыл бұрын
Nice video Nurd.... Have you received community guidelines strikes before?
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
Not exactly, but i have had a lot of my videos age-restricted and monetization removed. I usually delete those videos though. This was years ago. Looks like now they're coming at me again with these new policies.
@handsoffvenezuela14 8 жыл бұрын
What if the waste bucket was also for palladium compounds?. Do you know of a good way to separate paladium and platinum without loosing too much of either metal?
@maryudomah4387 8 жыл бұрын
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@benearhart1224 5 жыл бұрын
I believe that evaporation is the EPA's recommended way to dispose of "small" amount of hydrocarbon solvents. Typically, they do more immediate damage in the ground than in the air. I'm not sure about this case, but it is for methylene hydrochloride, trichloroethylene, and tetrachloroethylene.
@benearhart1224 5 жыл бұрын
I go out of my way to minimize "discharges" from my laboratory. I do it both for the environment and for my neighbors since I live in a high density residential zone. I like the idea of closed loop processes rather than some of the new "green" reactions. It would cool to make a poster that had a tree of recovery reactions. So, some detail on the use of mercury with strict recycling would be great
@Mega98RP 8 жыл бұрын
Love precious metals chemistry!
@nivmoshe5536 8 жыл бұрын
Can it be done with the same process just with gold chemical waste?
@zubmit700 8 жыл бұрын
THanks you
@spherulite 8 жыл бұрын
amazing
@kjpmi 8 жыл бұрын
Hey, I REALLY enjoyed this video. I like the updates you've made to the graphics. And are you using a new camera? Do you have a new fume hood setup? And one last thing, would you be able to answer a few questions I have about designing your own fume hood? If so, by private message is best. It's just a few technical questions/problems I'm trying to find good solutions to.
@poptartmcjelly7054 8 жыл бұрын
Will you be plating the platinum on some base metal to make a platinum electrode ?
@Mega98RP 8 жыл бұрын
Does aqua regia dissolve platinum oxide?
@tronictitan 8 жыл бұрын
will your aspirator pump help in reducing the boiling point and scrubbing the solvents?
@diegoreyes7932 8 жыл бұрын
Hi everyone, I got a question, in electrochemistry may I replace the carbon electrode with a titanium bar grade 2?
@juanaz1860 8 жыл бұрын
can anyone explain to me what he is doing in 1:35 It seems like he is heating a substance but that the top is covered so where is the gas from the liquid going?
@nickhill9445 8 жыл бұрын
I think you are pretty brave boiling that down... unless you had an excellent idea in advance of what you were dealing with. Even HNO3 electrolysis solutions can yield N3 under some conditions. I would have to presume that such a waste were both highly toxic and potentially explosive without good info to the contrary. I was hoping to see some fantastic process to neutralise potential hazards prior to refining.
@BranFlakesR1337 8 жыл бұрын
give me part two already😊😊😊😊😊😊must watch
@OneOfDisease 8 жыл бұрын
did the labs make you pay a lot for the high-end chemical waste, and I know you mentioned using a distillation tube or something? Also, if you had know other info other then it had platinum in it is there a way you could have tested for the the main chemicals and distilled them separately for us in other projects?
@mildlyacidic 5 жыл бұрын
Would it have been easier to oxidize the organic components (the ligands) in solution with piranha solution? You could perform a distillation and then in the same container, use piranha to oxidize the ligand components, redistill, and then finish off with aqua regia to avoid open flame and inefficiencies involving removing solid/crystallized waste from your glassware. As a plus, aqua regia would also clean your glassware at the same time.
@tmfan3888 8 жыл бұрын
How did u ask the labs for the Pt waste? do u get them free or paying the spot price of Pt or with a premium price?
@neoputotyra 8 жыл бұрын
your video quality are better ! it seems you use a new camera, did you ?
@designworksdw1949 8 жыл бұрын
Do you know of a good place to buy tritium lights? I seen that you had some in one of your recent videos.
@shonkysidewayssam6134 6 жыл бұрын
I wonder how it smelt?!
@gurnarok 8 жыл бұрын
Would be nice to see a collaboration with Cody's Lab :)
@ryancl03 8 жыл бұрын
how much did the source sell the byproducts for?
@inademv 8 жыл бұрын
Would a graphite crucible be suitable?
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
go for it! I totally forgot about graphite when i was mentioning the crucibles. A tiny drawback is that it's hard to tell apart grey graphite from grey platinum waste. So you might not be certain you have quantitative transfer.
@inademv 8 жыл бұрын
NurdRage Might also be something to look into for that experiment involving the induction heater, if you hadn't already.
@rajeshshahi1000 8 жыл бұрын
Lab tour please....
@oliverrapp93 8 жыл бұрын
you should send this to Cody's lab and he could get metallic platinum out as part of his precious metals series.
@raulsabasovs5303 8 жыл бұрын
nice
@ratdude747 8 жыл бұрын
Question: Could one use the filter paper as a teabag and automate the leeching process using a Soxhlet extractor? I know this probably isn't justified but if one happened to have one (and wasn't making a video about it), I could see that saving active time.
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
It's a bit of overkill, but i don't see why not.
@ratdude747 8 жыл бұрын
Cool, just curious after seeing your video on the device.
@computercat8694 8 жыл бұрын
What's with the flame at 3:49?
@TheStalenin 8 жыл бұрын
Because I havr worked up platin wast, is there any reason you did not boile the wast in concentrated Acid to destroy the ligands because we did that?
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
high temperature does the same thing
@TheStalenin 8 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I guess, burning it is also cheaper and faster.
@SyntheticFuture 8 жыл бұрын
Holy shit 4K awesomeness :D
@michaelthemadsoldiertist 2 жыл бұрын
What’s platinum worth these days.
@PCSoftware 8 жыл бұрын
Platinum Recovery (Pt 1) -- I see what you did there.
@andregrundy3680 8 жыл бұрын
I like the video :) takes me back to the earlier days of your channel! I do have a question though! With the oxidation of the ligands in the incineration process, classic greenhouse gasses (specifically the NOx) are being released into the atmosphere. What would be done to the waste on an industrial scale to prevent the release of these gasses into the environment? I know you mentioned you are not following an EPA but from your experience as a chemist what would you say is a typical industrial setup. Thanks!
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
It's actually pretty easy. The gases are first sent through a wash tower that washes out all the particulates and soluble gases. Because most of the organics were removed during the initial drying steps, the amount of actual gases from incineration isn't that high. The smoke is just really dense. So a scrubbing tower easily washes them out.
@andregrundy3680 8 жыл бұрын
Seems like the problem wouldn't be the incineration but rather the initial boiling then! I'm assuming that the entire process would, at industrial scale, be handled by the same scrubber and crucible then. But if the waste you have was from a lab using Pt catalysts, then would the set up size you have be typical for an in house recycling process or do some labs actually produce barrels of Pt waste?
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
Some labs produce lots of waste. Others collect what they can, boil it down, and then send the residue to a refiner. The refiner pays for shipping. The lab doesn't make any money in that case. In terms of cost savings or profitability most labs don't bother handling their own waste and just send it off to the refiner or simply dispose of it along with their regular heavy metal waste. That being said. A good number of individual chemists in those labs will refine it themselves because its fun! After doing twenty thousand carbon coupling reactions that usually produce brown sludge, the average chemist would welcome the opportunity to mess with platinum chemistry and actually see something cool come out the other end they can hold in their hand. Even if it's not exactly "profitable". They already have all the equipment and chemicals, why not right? :)
@andregrundy3680 8 жыл бұрын
It would most definitely be a welcomed break :) but then the next question would be how do the refineries make money off the Pt waste? You claim a half a gram but that is about $15. Sure there is the economy of scale but surely the cost of reagents, hazardous goods shipping fees, scrubber costs and energy input would be higher and out pace the scale up! Clearly it is not since the refineries exist but it seems to me like it would be a difficult business to break even or turn a profit!
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
oh the stuff in the video is just one lab. Refineries collect residue from hundreds of labs. They also don't do it one at a time but stockpile the residue until they have many kilograms of it. Then they do it all at once. It becomes VERY profitable at that point :)
@midwinter78 8 жыл бұрын
So what happened to that 31.1g of platinum you dissolved in aqua regia 3 years back or so?
@jamie91995 8 жыл бұрын
He turned it into chloroplatinic acid
@midwinter78 8 жыл бұрын
+The Chemistry Kid I meant after that - I presume chloroplatinic acid has some use - even just turning back into platinum, it's a very expensive thing to make if you don't do something with it.
@martins9429 6 жыл бұрын
how to extract platinum from catalytic converters
@XXCoder 8 жыл бұрын
I remember reading about 2 guys sweeping road and managing to get platinum out of that due to cars. Percentage was tiny but interesting nevertheless.
@applegwava 7 жыл бұрын
XXCoder codyslab
@nappykins-AND-lotion 8 жыл бұрын
Can the same process be used to recycle palladium complexes as well?
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
yup
@nappykins-AND-lotion 8 жыл бұрын
nifty.
@Palerider1942 8 жыл бұрын
so are you looking at this as a cheaper way to get otherwise expensive catalysts for your experiments or will you be refining and selling on the platinum (or even both with selling off the excess)?
@mjg1903 8 жыл бұрын
i don't know for sure the prices on these things, but most of these experiments are for exploring the science around doing said experiment. i think it would be tough to turn a profit after all this, idk for sure however.
@Palerider1942 8 жыл бұрын
OH i know he does these mostly for teh science but he was talking about "next time" he does the refining. I would assume that he might make 1 more video on it for the improvements to the process but im guessing he would want to use teh finished product for something
@mjg1903 8 жыл бұрын
+Palerider1942 oh. i misunderstood your question. sorry about that. i have no clue on how to answer your question. sorry m8
@mjg1903 8 жыл бұрын
+Palerider1942 oh. i misunderstood your question. sorry about that. i have no clue on how to answer your question. sorry m8
@Palerider1942 8 жыл бұрын
no problem :)
@walperstyle 8 жыл бұрын
What is the cost of energy (propane and electricity) vs the value of the platinum?
@OniNekomon 8 жыл бұрын
If you do it on a higher scale o think it's profitable.
@walperstyle 8 жыл бұрын
Thanks tips, i'm looking for a basis.
@morganmitchell4017 8 жыл бұрын
2 grams of platinum is worth about $70. The electricity probably cost around $0.50 - 1.00 and I'd guess he used well under $5 of propane.
@walperstyle 8 жыл бұрын
What is the total time to do this? Plus cost of supplies?
@morganmitchell4017 8 жыл бұрын
walperstyle I don't know, sorry. I'm not familiar with the chemistry in the video. I just know that running a kilowatt hour heater for an hour costs about $0.10 and a small canister of propane costs about $10.
@DUIofPhysics 8 жыл бұрын
Hey #NurdRage, I'm about to do my HNC Electronics Engineering level project, looking to do some form of automation. Recently I've had some interest in chemistry. What kind of automation system would be interesting / useful for a home lab chemist (or industrial lab chemist)? Autosampler / dispenser? Titrator?
@AlphaToEpsilon 8 жыл бұрын
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@nullnull5268 7 жыл бұрын
Is that possible to use molten potassium chlorate to burn out all the organics?
@NurdRage 7 жыл бұрын
if i'm going to heat it up anyway i might as well just air as it's cheaper and easier to get.
@nullnull5268 7 жыл бұрын
The residual platinum particle and whatever metals in it should be very easy to separate from the potassium chlorate mixture.
@NurdRage 7 жыл бұрын
but if i burn it in air there will be no mixture to separate it from, even easier!
@matimil1000 8 жыл бұрын
Wich salt or mixture of salts should I use to turn a flame purple?
@Lacertus94 8 жыл бұрын
Potassium has a purple flame but is often orange from contamination with sodium. Indium seems to have a nice purple flame but I don't think you get Indium salts easily. Maybe some lead compounds would be okay, those are more blue flames
@matimil1000 8 жыл бұрын
Potassium sulfate should work, right?
@Lacertus94 8 жыл бұрын
Matias Isola Yes, the counterion doesn't matter.
@badsantaclaus4522 7 жыл бұрын
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@ShroomLab 8 жыл бұрын
Before you can recover platinum from waste you have to generate waste first where does it come from?
@galacticcadet 8 жыл бұрын
Maybe watch the video before asking. Sorry to be a dick.
@ShroomLab 8 жыл бұрын
Sure I did but his voice is not the clearest and english not my first language. I didnt get it.
@ShroomLab 8 жыл бұрын
Watched it again and found out its from a lab and they used platinum but where does it come from? elcectrodes...
@galacticcadet 8 жыл бұрын
+Shroom Lab Mostly platinum catalyst. If you watch more of his videos, then you will learn to understand his voice.
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
You can always turn on the subtitles. They're professionally done so they match the audio. I do agree that sometimes i talk very fast and cant be understood.
@CKOD 8 жыл бұрын
Naughty naughty, processing waste without a license. I learned in my RCRA class that its not waste until no one wants it anymore. So you should be buying spent platinum catalysts and other compounds for reprocessing ;). I.e. barrel of methanol with 1% impurities thats unusable for analytic chemistry? Either pay $lots to have hazwaste disposed of, or sell/give it to a company making washer fluid so they can add blue and surfactants to it, so consumers can pay for the pleasure of spraying your unwanted chemicals into the environment.
@MohdAradi 4 жыл бұрын
why do you wight the vial when you can just Tare it by pressing the T. btw I have the exact same scale .
@NurdRage 4 жыл бұрын
because the scale resets and loses the Tare after awhile.
@DUIofPhysics 8 жыл бұрын
Could you have used piranha acid instead of incinerating the organics?
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
Nope, Piranha doesn't get everything, only fire does.
@DUIofPhysics 8 жыл бұрын
Ah right, interesting.... so... Kill it with fire?
@pesto50 8 жыл бұрын
Any idea why that is? I would think piranha would tear through ligands... but then ago I don't know much about organometallic chemistry
@DUIofPhysics 8 жыл бұрын
I could be wrong, but I'm imagining Compounds with Fluorine in it or possibly Chlorine.
@DUIofPhysics 8 жыл бұрын
***** Let's have a video on this.
@fredlllll 8 жыл бұрын
you wanted to use an induction heater for that? yeah i guess the torch was a much better idea then :P
@masacatior 2 жыл бұрын
04:03 - 04:14 Nurd's most Joker moment
@MrRishik123 8 жыл бұрын
Is this profitable if you "know a guy" that has this waste?
@chedisLoL 8 жыл бұрын
nope. its like for every ounce of platnum you use twice as much chemicals and glassware. so you wont be turning a profit.
@MrRishik123 8 жыл бұрын
Alexander Worley i'll take your word for it i guess.
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
at very small scales no. At larger scales it becomes profitable.
@MrRishik123 8 жыл бұрын
NurdRage OMG thanks for the reply. I guess that goes for everything with valuable ores i guess. So its only profitable if you know a guy and collect a lot of it and make some streamlined method. Can't wait to see the rest of the vids on this series. :D
@homemadelemonade976 8 жыл бұрын
without infustrial scale platinum recovery, it kind of isnt. You put a lot of work into getting a small yield. It is profitable techijcally, but lots of your time is going to be wasted. Imo your time is more important than doing a sensitive process that can last a whole day
@Synnerization 6 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't it been faster and better to simply ignite the volatile organic waste under a charcoal filtered exhaust vent? What waste products would you expect? Most volatile organics will break down into CO and CO2 when incinerated.
@NurdRage 6 жыл бұрын
i say you can do that in the video. you just need bigger apparatus.
@Synnerization 6 жыл бұрын
My bad. I must have missed that part. Just wondering if there was some reason you couldn't like a toxic byproduct or extremely low yield.
@abrahamm1325 8 жыл бұрын
can you please make a video of the synthesis of nitrocellulose.
@DeathbyDusk 8 жыл бұрын
Why? Its excessively dangerous and he has no use for it.
@abrahamm1325 8 жыл бұрын
+Maliciously Delicious its not dangerous when synthesized correctly and in small amounts. but seriously its not that dangerous like maybe if he had a kilo of it which abviously he wouldnt. its not like im asking someone who knows nothing about chemistry this guy is a proffesional am I not allowed to be curious?
@DeathbyDusk 8 жыл бұрын
abraham m Again, why? To what purpose?
@abrahamm1325 8 жыл бұрын
+Maliciously Delicious I already said becuase I am curious about its synthesis. what are you the internet police?
@DeathbyDusk 8 жыл бұрын
abraham m Nope. But again, if your curious just look it up yourself elsewhere. Also if memory serves its a controlled Substance in Canada.
@dudmic 8 жыл бұрын
The Thing in the flask
@bno112300 8 жыл бұрын
That's some shocking unicode support in the patron scroll at the end. Text encoding is hard.
@RhodianColossus 7 жыл бұрын
Precious metal recovery, syrups of platinum waste - what is this, Alchemy?
@Jerrytheman9 8 жыл бұрын
Was the "pt 1" in the title pun intended? Lol
@glitchysoup6322 8 жыл бұрын
Finally 4k@60fps!
@dylanlyon7215 8 жыл бұрын
why not combust the initial waste?
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
I address that in the video
@dylanlyon7215 8 жыл бұрын
+NurdRage oh shit, senpai noticed me
@helicopterpilot08 8 жыл бұрын
Create a website with all these videos
@brocktechnology 8 жыл бұрын
??? Your looking at a website with all these videos.
@sazxcdewq123 8 жыл бұрын
Why didn't you pointed the torch into the crucible?
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
why do i have to?
@sazxcdewq123 8 жыл бұрын
To burn away these noxious organic fumes and burn the waste down to ash instead of carbonaceous mass.
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
but wouldn't that blow away the fine particles of metals?
@sazxcdewq123 8 жыл бұрын
You're probably right.
@kylesenior 8 жыл бұрын
You should have washed the solids on the outside of the bottle into the mix.
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
There is no platinum there.
@kylesenior 8 жыл бұрын
An old bottle then?
@bernardo00124719 7 жыл бұрын
send it to cody.
@roehle9962 8 жыл бұрын
did the 666th like and not a single dislike... impressive!
@rttr5777 8 жыл бұрын
+NurdRage very sorry for this bad news (youtube ugh) anyway good luck for your channel (you could make a dailymotion account as a backup)
@nullnull5268 8 жыл бұрын
You got a new lab? Or a different guy
@xvirus2501 8 жыл бұрын
Cody's lab called, he wants his video back please.
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
The millions of chemists from the past four centuries called "Go fuck yourself, we discovered the science first." hehehe j/k. But seriously. Cody's lab does not own the knowledge. He certainly didn't discover it. Nor was he the first to make a video on it. He has no right to this video in anyway whatsoever.
@atrumblood 6 жыл бұрын
Epic reply is epic. Haha!
@BartzabelAlgol 6 жыл бұрын
The same result as far as the data destruction is concerned, can be had by a sufficiently powerful rare earth magnet and electricity!.
@joewebster903 5 жыл бұрын
If you need precious metal salts for your experiments let me know
@DrB1900 7 жыл бұрын
Not to rain on a parade, but a half gram of platinum is only worth about $20.
@NurdRage 7 жыл бұрын
I think you missed the point of learning stuff.
@DrB1900 7 жыл бұрын
Ouch. But very deserved. I've spent 100's of hours in my life playing with science and love your videos! I just signed up on Patreon. Keep up the great videos.
@pyrogreg07 8 жыл бұрын
eh.. .5grams of platinum rather shell out 10 bucks :P great vid
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
go for it. The vid is for educational purposes if you have large amounts of platinum.
@doublebubleguy12 8 жыл бұрын
For some reason I read the title as "Plutonium Recovery from Laboratory Chemical Waste" lol. Must be because I'm Dyslexic but a Plutonium video would be pretty cool yet illegal and very dangerous...
@rmalmeida1976 5 жыл бұрын
Being your neighbor must be hell. Just burning some lab chemical waste of unknown components in my yard for a KZfaq video.
@MuzikBike 8 жыл бұрын
As worthless as it is, why not show how to recover and purify copper? Like removing the alumium from the stuff you used in the nitric acid video.
@burntbreadbits 8 жыл бұрын
If you're interested in platinum and precious metal recovery in general, go to Cody's Lab.
@kenny.aviation7645 8 жыл бұрын
NURDRAGE IS THERE A WAY TO WATCH YOUR VIDEOS IF KZfaq TAKES YOU DOWN!
@NextGenAge 8 жыл бұрын
I hope he uploads them to Vimeo!
@daanstam6697 8 жыл бұрын
well i hope he has all of the video's backedup on a hard drive and he can upload them to a website
@charlestaylor7591 8 жыл бұрын
he probably has, but why don't you back all the videos up on your own HD?
@daanstam6697 8 жыл бұрын
+DER SATAN (ILLUMINATUS666) hmm I could but how can I do that easily
@charlestaylor7591 8 жыл бұрын
I'm using a program called 4k video downloader. it allows you to download an entire channel automatically.
@wissenschaft6218 8 жыл бұрын
first!
@diegoreyes7932 8 жыл бұрын
NurdRage, are you a chemist? or you just make chemistry like a hobby.
@jamie91995 8 жыл бұрын
He has a Ph.D. In inorganic chemistry
@diegoreyes7932 8 жыл бұрын
Is there someone to share science conversations?
@thefalsh 8 жыл бұрын
its a platinum concentrate not ore
@NurdRage 8 жыл бұрын
gotcha! good to know :)
@thefalsh 8 жыл бұрын
I work for a massive multinational Zinc and lead producer but have limited techincal knowledge. Your electrolysis vids on Zinc and also tr sulphuric acid ones have been very helpful. Thanks nurd
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