I absolutely love the idea of introducing myself and my ideas here. I am not much of a chemist myself having ended that with a mishap in my first year of CEJEP. It really was not my fault I swear there was no "m" on the sheet the teacher handed out, only an L and I put 5 liters of ethanol in a vessel and I was lighting my Bunsen to heat it when my teacher and the other students jumped but to my defence I had a hang over so I consider myself a Survivor. I then switched to organic chemistry but it did not go much better, I am a little dislexic and mixed up my mothers Advil with her sleeping pills and snored in the class and then finally a fire broke as we were trying to determine some oil boiling point or I misunderstood something, anyway I do not know why this teacher was so upset we put the fire out and no one was hurt. Incidently this is why I mixed up things while reading labels on my first gold refining experiment and used HCl instead of nitric acid but I did prove the point that gold does not dissolve in HCL. Reading is not my strength so please do not tell me to read more. I finally decided to became a molecular biologist and I had more mishaps but nothing could stop me so I graduated. Enough about me.
I am truly exited to be part of this club and I have already done some experiments involving gold refining last week, with mixed results so far. My wife told me not to mix chemicals up without knowing the result but I told her she is just a lawyer and I was making gold, she walked away so I won the argument. Then I did 2 experiments. The next day when she came back from work I had this milky stuff in my vessel with some blue traces on the walls and she asked what it was and I said it must be gold and she walked away so I won the argument again. Actually I had no idea what it was, I guess a mishap. I will write about the experiments in a different section of the club. I am very responsable and I agree that the smoke created is dangerous and believe me it smells like a donkey's fart on a bad day. Also refrain from tasting while refining, it is like acid.
While reading my posts please keep the following in mind:
I read CM HOKE.S book and it is indeed invaluable. My goal here in joining this club is not only to replicate his experiments but to streamline the refining process ( if possible) and publish my results in a book titled : GOLDORACK'S MODIFICATIONS OF HOKE'S GOLD REFINING METHOD. That, gentlemen, is my goal.
I am truly exited to be part of this club and I have already done some experiments involving gold refining last week, with mixed results so far. My wife told me not to mix chemicals up without knowing the result but I told her she is just a lawyer and I was making gold, she walked away so I won the argument. Then I did 2 experiments. The next day when she came back from work I had this milky stuff in my vessel with some blue traces on the walls and she asked what it was and I said it must be gold and she walked away so I won the argument again. Actually I had no idea what it was, I guess a mishap. I will write about the experiments in a different section of the club. I am very responsable and I agree that the smoke created is dangerous and believe me it smells like a donkey's fart on a bad day. Also refrain from tasting while refining, it is like acid.
While reading my posts please keep the following in mind:
I read CM HOKE.S book and it is indeed invaluable. My goal here in joining this club is not only to replicate his experiments but to streamline the refining process ( if possible) and publish my results in a book titled : GOLDORACK'S MODIFICATIONS OF HOKE'S GOLD REFINING METHOD. That, gentlemen, is my goal.
