Ad8chd
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This is my first coast, let me preface by saying that I know how I did it was wrong. At least I know that now… and as soon as I’m done making this post, I plan to go straight down to the tutorial section and do some studying. Anyway, I have some material in which I suspected gold, getting chemicals is kind of tough where I’m at so I made nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, and with these, obviously made the aqua Regia. Apparently, I was supposed to cover my material in HCL and drip the nitric, that’s not what I did. I just mixed them three parts of HCL and one part of nitric so obviously now it’s obvious anyway, way too much nitric acid. Also, let me say that I was instructed by ChatGPT on this one, he’s real good at analogue electronics, not so much I don’t think for this. so I let it do it thing for like pride four hours or something, then I boiled it for like 10 minutes, which I was under the impression when there was no more fumes coming out of it, all the nitric acid was gone, which I guess is not the case, but anyway, when I first started dripping the SMB solution. There was some incredibly dark, rich brown colored clouds, that kind of dissipated, and then I started seeing real particles floating around. I kept adding the reducing agent there was no more action then I let it sit for a couple hours cause it was all poofy in there, when I came back, there was nothing in there. Everything that happened after that I already know was stupid so like I understand if you guys wanna take a couple quick shots at me I deserve it but just understand that I know it was dumb. Anyway advice from ChatGPT. I added some hydrochloric acid to apparently try to get rid of the nitric acid. Everything went clear, then I boiled it for a while more and slowly, but surely it started snowing in there again and then I had a big fat blob after pouring it through a filter, I’m gonna put a picture up so you guys can tell me if it was even really gold or not, then I went to try to melt some and it was turning black, so my good buddy and mentor in this project, good old chat, told me that I needed to wash it with sulfuric acid and then rinse it and then it would melt fine. I made a solution of sulfuric and started adding it before. I knew it. Everything that I had just disappeared. Then I got frustrated and I just started dumping everything that I had on the one container because I feel like if it is gold, it couldn’t have gone anywhere. It’s got to still be there. I just have to figure out how to untangle it. yeah that’s the way it went down if anybody’s got any ideas, I would love to hear them. Thank you in advance, and, like I said, only take a couple shots at me because my pride is already hurting