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Making purple gold

NileRed

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A few years ago I stumbled onto something called purple gold and I really wanted to buy a pure purple gold ring. However, I was devastated when I found out that it didn't exist...so I decided to try and make one myself.

Turning old jewelry into pure gold bars: Turning old jewelry into pure gold bars

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Chapters:
00:00 - What is purple gold?
00:50 - I need a purple gold ring
02:13 - How to make purple gold
04:21 - Getting a gold bar
05:16 - I need to destroy the gold
05:48 - Dissolving the gold bar
07:45 - Bringing the gold back
10:48 - Making the purple gold
42:47 - Making the ring
49:02 - Outro
52:18 - Credits

Music in credits (Walker by SORRYSINES): SoundCloud: walker

20 Comments

@NileRed Creator 2 years ago Pinned

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@Justatamarin 2 years ago (edited)

I showed this video to my godfather who owns a large jewelry company and he told me he had tried to make this about 5 years ago and this was some of the finest work he had ever seen

@joshuahancock2079 2 years ago (edited)

Fun fact: in the semi-conductor industry, this alloy is known as “purple plague” because it’s extremely detrimental to parts. Basically, if gold and aluminum contacts touch at high temp, some purple alloy naturally forms. This alloy is both brittle and a poor conductor, leading to electrical or mechanical failure. It was a big issue for a while, and Al and Au are some of the most common contact materials in chips. So yeah, fun facts for ya.

Edit: Wow, this blew up, haha. Glad to start some cool conversations and learning!

@michaelimbesi2314 2 years ago

I love how the chemistry in this video isn’t complicated, it’s just Nile learning that casting metal is complex.

@timhadaway-m7z 5 months ago

You know, it’s no wonder “wizards” and scientists of old have the reputation of locking themselves away in a tower or something for months on end. Even in modern times it’s just endless failure until that one moment lol

@9Tensai9 2 years ago

I have a feeling that we will start seeing a lot of new purple gold jewelry all over the place.

@BaroqueBach. 2 years ago

"Im not usually into jewellery"

Nile casually making himself grillz a few months ago

@Daisy-Everfree 1 year ago (edited)

You're the person that 14th century alchemists dreamed of being.

@par71al 3 months ago

The Internet: "Purple gold is nearly impossible to make"

Nile: How could I have known it would be this difficult to make?

@NathanielBandy 2 years ago

The beaker drop had me in shambles until I realized it was just a bamboozle

@Duquaticus 1 year ago

A man approaches you, he smells of Raspberry perfume and hes wielding a Bismuth knife. His finger is adorned with a rare purple gold ring. Intoxicated by his homemade toilet paper moonshine, he smiles at you exposing custom gold grillz.

What do you do?

@skylon07_RAGE 2 years ago (edited)

This man just casually playing with $5700 of gold, throwing it in chemicals, melting it into random shapes, and sanding and heating it like he knows what he's doing or something...
Man, I am quite jealous of this dude's knowledge of chemistry. And now also his one-of-a-kind purple gold ring. That thing actually looks pretty cool.

@aidanshaughnessy6692 7 months ago

I can't wait to play as Purple Gold Waluigi as Mario Kart DLC

@a.maus.2615 2 years ago

Whats crazy is you've advanced a field. no one makes cast purple gold jewelry because of the complications. You are now one of the best in the world at that specific task and made it look like a college students term project.

@tribopower 2 years ago

I feel like this man single-handedly expanded the purple gold community from almost nothing to something in the eyes of the people

@mihalis1010 1 year ago

38:19 I’m a student at a goldsmithing school. One of the first things we learn when working with gold is that it’s basically impossible to not lose any, especially when sanding and filing. You spent 10 hours sanding a bar of it. Some of that gold turns into dust that gets carried away in air, some of it sticks to the paper. Only losing 5 grams is actually quite impressive considering how much you worked with it. When we do cost estimates, we typically factor in a 15% loss when smelting and remaking something.

@anantdixit6637 4 months ago

That 5 grams are lost in the process of sanding, grinding and hammering.

@rolandneal9519 1 year ago

Every time he confidently says something like “figured this would be pretty easy” I check how much time is left, and it’s usually about 40 minutes

@squidikka 2 years ago

Nile: "I have no idea where all the gold went!"
Also Nile: sanding, grinding, hammering

@treelineresearch3387 2 years ago (edited)

Dude just completely reverse engineered, fully documented, and probably even improved a deeply proprietary jewelry process based on a one line recipe in a patent, what an absolute beast. I'm thinking most of your gold loss was in the sanding and grinding, especially if you didn't chemically extract the gold from the used sandpaper.