Scrap Silver Refining (Part 1) Digestion

How do you neutralize nitric acid after the process?

Can you reuse the nitric acid if you have some more silver you want to dump in there?

1000 grams of silver is extracted from crystal

can 52% nitric acid dissolve silver? or is it necessarily 65%?

My dude! Stop tapping your metal tongs on your glass beaker! Lol!

have you ever done a video on reverse electroplating gold plated/filled jewelry process and if not will you do one ? Im having trouble determining what you do after you have reverse electroplated the gold and you have your black liquid.

I have a question: can the incineration process be done with chemistry? Since dilute sulfuric acid only attacks metals below copper could you use a piranha solution to remove the organic residues?

I guess this is where "prep work" comes into play - yes?

Nitric is expensive at this point - we don't have luxuries to " test or play" - maybe do more checks on your initial product?
Love your finish, I know you will get it right, but cringe on the way......not would I would do - guess I'll make some more videos - there is a way to supplement or starve a silver reaction - I'm gonna start videos and show this

Watching silver disolve for 40 minutes... exciting 😀
EDIT: 40 minutes later... lesson learned - sort the scrap before disoving... teach kids, how to do it... let them do it... 😀

I found using a strong solution of alum eats all the steel out but it take about 3-5 days. I just put the whole mess in a crockpot on low. Makes watch-bands & big lots of junk jewelry a breeze.

Has anyone ever called you Heisenberg?

I really enjoy watching these, thanks, Jeff!

nitric acid is expensive, you could have used the parkes process first.

It is a travesty of the loss of the red coral stone our oceans are not producing them anymore.

Nice job. What do you do with the stones from the silver you process

Just found you, subbed for great content!
Semper FI

What strength of nitric acid do you use?

Sir, in India we have 40 to 60% old silver like chain, bracelet, payal, we want to refine it, how to refine process of 20 kg, please replay.

How much time it takes to finish the reaction when you put water and nitric acid and silver can u please help me

The plates you set on top of the beakers, are the borosilicate glass too? Or just some clear glass plates?

So, if i use constitutional silver, i would use the same method 🤔

How many hours would you expect about 650 grams of 900 "coin silver to dissolve? Also, when you cement out the silver with copper, do you double the volume of solution with distilled water. Say you had 200 ml of solition. Youd add 200ml of distilled water for a total of 400ml then drop the copper in?

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i had the same issue sulfiric acid did the trick to clear it up, a small amount but let it cool first.

it was the iron in solution

Thanks again Kevin Bacon. 👌🏻