Mercury (hg) VS 1953 Silver Quarter

[joo5033]

this kids is why you dont put change in your mouth.

[bjorn860]

In Mercury We Trust 

[TheEpicness12]

i mean for scientific purposes.

[TheEpicness12]

isnt using anysort of currency illegal?

[rocker9904]

OH GOOD... cuz i suck on quarters. thanks for nothing, good think i'm canadian LOL JK

[ImTheSeekr]

lol the quarter floats on it :P

[UkrainianDragon1993]

Damn government changed the quarters' contents and I didn't know about it until high school when my history teacher showed us one and told us the difference. Now i'm all trying to find these silver quarters and dimes.

[trustthewater]

My father used to tell me that when he was a kid they would pass around mercury at school so that they could all shine pennies.

[kevinyang1245]

@IronkneeProductions No

[Isenseven1080]

I would give you 26 cents for that shiny quarter.

[super917807]

You had to drown him why?



[super917807]

And George Washington dies once again

[Sintwar]

And this children is exactly why you should never stick coins in your mouth!

Cool vid.

[Headlesshydra12]

Ok... so now do it again .. but mass the mercury before and after.

[shaneboyw]

Yeah, FUCK YOU GEORGE WASHINGTON!

[cornzplosion]

@shaneboyw USA USA!!

[psychodude81]

where do you get the mercury from.tell me by sending message to my acoount

[TheFunnyWanka]

mercury vs fire

[ryanrenesis]

Mercury makes the silver quarter shiny because it removes the oxide layer on the silver quarter?

[yojomo9]

The mercury wore down the peaks in the silver making it smoother. It's like microscopic sandpaper for silver. You can see some shards of silver in the mercury.

I know you know, I just wanted you to know that I knew too!

[thegusbus1001]

i finally found a way to clean my quarter collection!

[GerrettJihad]

@thegusbus1001 bad Idea!

[aqsoran]

@IronkneeProductions

I don't think so.

It makes "amalgam". Lot of metals, especially silver dissolve into mercury so quarter was cleaned.

Even if it stayed on coin, mercury wouldn't make a little layer because it evaporates fast.

It's highly dangerous and I hope cleaner wore special mask and goggles. :)

[RCROX5000]

Mercury is such a weird metal.

[JerkDouglas]

Is the mercury actually cleaning it? Or is the mercury just adhering to the surface in a layer? That is so wicked smart.

[xG33Kx]

@JerkDouglas Mercury reacts with the silver and forms an amalgam, it's quite awesome.

[tappakeggaday1]

would the quarter go back to how it looked before the cleaning if you evaporated the mercury off of it?I know they use mercury for gold amalgamation/recovery and then use a retort machine for reclaiming the mercury.

[ThePostal67]

Neat, I used to do the same thing! That and put pennies on Dry Ice and listen the ring...Jewel Tea store used to throw it outside to get rid of it.. Either one is dangerous. glad to see you wearing gloves... Still got a five pound bottle of HG in the closet up high so the grandkids don't even know about it.

[Pasteries101]

it looks shiney because the mercury also eats at the dirt and un needed oils

[TheL4786]

I did this few years ago after a week the coin looks worse than in the start

[bogols]

throw it at a crow.

[wordreet]

That's the strangest way to launder money!

[royoffg]

The way the Liquid Mercury looks and this song just remind me of Metal Mario

[jkwon761]

10 Jews disliked this video

[GHOSTTOYS]

i heard of copper penny under heat and sink into mercury get siver ...

[tecatomon42]

@GHOSTTOYS Did you see it on the news this mroing?

[berettaboy1245]

taofledermaus is awesome I love these vids

[phantomjackalope1]

That's some quick moving thumb you got there big boy...Mind if I borrow it???

[AwokenDemon]

you know polishing coins ruins the value cus it takes off the top layer of silver

[Dylan94]

@AwokenDemon It's not always about the monetary value.

[MrCODBlackOpsPro123]

my preascious

[Joragomiman]

lol when i was watching this i got an "invest in silver" add

[cincinatus90]

Why does the uploader finger dudes assholes? This is bizarre...

[PhazonHyperBeam]

In China, people began making mirrors with the use of silver-mercury amalgams as early as 500 AD

[Rafaperfil97]

DVD + Melcury = Bluray?

[Animan223]

Random mostly-uneducated guess, given the scratches on the surface of the finished coin, the mercury is literally buffing off the outermost layers (the dirty bits) off the coin, like one would use sandpaper to get rid of layers of wood. No idea if that's the case, but its my guess and im sticking to it.

[Dylan94]

@Animan223 'sticking to it', like you said at the end of your statement, is what happens. I just did this with my own quarter and mercury, and it's more like a thin coat on the coin. It feels wet, and you can see a trace amount of mercury on it. I'm not sure if it's safe though, i'll just have to wait and see.

[BULL3THOL3S]

aw dude not the 1953 thats probably worth something lol

[Animan223]

@BULL3THOL3S

It is! Exactly 25 cents.

[conn0r644]

@Animan223 Actually, it's more like 5 bucks....it's made of silver.

[TheGodOfBlocks]

THATS SICK.

[pwnage3458]

coin polish hmmm where do u get ur mercury

[pwnage3458]

OMFG QUARTER HERPIES jk lol i find these videos very intresting thank you

[PittsburghCopBlock]

I really hope you did not recirculate that quarter.

[nolesown]

love how the ad beside the video says invest in silver

[YouAreABunghole]

My comment is still there? Damn, your attention spans take more time than to die than C-14 atoms to decay!

[IronkneeProductions]

is the quarter toxic now?

[greenrolaids]

JUMBACO !

[iamsoooosweet2468]

SHINY!!!

[TheElementShock]

its funny to see a quarter float

[rayaandtex]

thats cool....ya just gotta be carful with that stuff its real dangerous

[jorge9968]

where  can i get some mercury? xD

[GundamGSsify]

holy shit cleaned coin oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooo

[MrSGBabcock]

um, they stopped with silver in quarters/dimes in 1945 coinage act.

[beeronrotc]

@MrSGBabcock Quarters and Dimes that are pre 1965 are 90% silver

[chaosaxis]

Isn't it forming an amalgam with the silver on the surface? Still neato, though.

[TheLionVirus]

It attaches to the coin

[MrNaglest12]

get your fucking hand out of the way dumbass

[PhrozenTiger]

Now.. do it without gloves >=)

[Nooblar]

Is it me, or does the uploader comments make i like this guy is incredibly defensive? Its weird to see someone smart enough to be doing some nifty science stuff on youtube, but also silly enough to get mad and respond to troll comments.

[taofledermaus]

@Nooblar I just like to play with them. Sometimes I can get them to come back dozens of times.

[Gurgleschlortz]

@taofledermaus Remind me to never touch my mouth after handling old coins that have been polished recently . . .

[Ultralord007Style]

@taofledermaus Ahh making the trolled out of the trolls, Well played, sir.

[sakkcheese]

i like this kind of shit is it polishing it or maby releasing the scale off

[dougspair]

...We did this 55-60 years ago as kids...nothing polished....just a thin coat of mercury on the pre-1965 silver coins...no gloves either...guess that's why I'm still alive at 74...?

[ShronHi]

UR AN ANIUM

[hoooooooooooooooo]

Enjoy your new deadly toxic coin.

[ScumMonkey227]

Cool experiment!

[Mr6f00t]

where can i buy some mercury!?

[meuberepic]

@Mr6f00t you cant

[cfcsvanberg]

@tburns7v How do you think polishing works?

[Cerealkilla4000]

That's cool, the mercury made the quarter look chrome.

[GTHaroFITBMX]

@tburns7v f u

[crunchy0kittens]

@tburns7v How do you think regular polishing works?

[UpcomingJedi]

@tburns7v Its only money. One little quarter. Nobody will miss that $.000001 cent that was scrubbed off unless you are a Jew.

[TheJrad03]

but yet the gloves?

[PikPobedy]

By the next day the coin will have lost its sheen and slippery feel and it will a matte dull chalky surface.

[PikPobedy]

Mercury disolves into the silver coin's surface. They are mutually soluble.

Mercury is used to extract silver and also gold from ores in some countries.

[rodentbonzbindery]

mercury coated

[1899lpv]

It just removes the patina or silver oxide. The only value this quarter has its his weight in silver. Any collector knows that any ways of cleaning a coin will depreciate in value. If you want to keep it, do whatever you want but if you want to sell it, the only buyer will be a novice collector believing that shinny means "good deal"

[shaveddave]

it makes the quarter shiney because it takes off the coating of the different metal. right?

[Crandelo95]

@shaveddave like copper, silver corrodes and forms an outer black layer in order to protect it from oxidizing. The mercury simply removes the outer layer of corrosion and makes the quarter shiny

[capricorn4003]

you can take A1 Steak Sauce and shine pennies up like this. ;)

[milkman1232]

should i microwve this

[Bzapp725]

try ketchup

[Zombehrapege]

trick to clean quarters clean them with mercury

[zackiemay]

does it coat it with a thin amount of mercury is that y its shiny?

[PikPobedy]

@zackiemay

yes

[WizzyFilms]

I collect silver quarters. now I'm worried about mercury poisoning O_O

[YouAreABunghole]

Imma get that bitch a jar o' mercury..

bitches love ionization via a uranium chain reaction leading to smaller elements..

[MrJakeEATsworld]

@YouAreABunghole Bitches love big words

[YouAreABunghole]

@MrJakeEATsworld

Bitch please, I took AP Chem.

[MrJakeEATsworld]

@YouAreABunghole Lmao

[WatchingforTruthLORD]

You will lose coin value any grader can easy recognize Hg cleaning it leaves Hg it the pits and easy classified as polished. Take water baking soda and a .999 coin and touch silver to 999 and it will be clean and you can use hands! and no trace!

[WatchingforTruthLORD]

That is not a solid silver coin its 90 percent pure

[thebestStevenHawkins]

I'm surprised that nobody's noted the fact that that's not a solid silver quarter unless it's a special one. those quarters were only like 5% silver

[legokiller230]

@thebestStevenHawkins not tryin to undermine you in any way but prior to 1965 (1932-1964) quarters were 90% silver in a range from 90% lowest grade to 92% highest differing from the mint then after 1964 they dropped to 40% silver, nowdays in our 2011 quarter it still contains 21% silver which is still amazing compared to others which have absolutly no metal value in their currency.

[Crandelo95]

@thebestStevenHawkins I thought there was more silver in the quarters before they changed it to the alloy in the 1980's

[superduperbjarne]

Shiny:D

[ERTLPFM]

I wouldn't call that defacing

But whatever.

[snoopyboy101]

1:57 Holy shit! how did the mercury change the picture!!

[aniretak92]

1:38 taofledermaus: *reflects light off coin:

Me: O____O "DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG."

[SuperRyan122]

A QUARTER floating. I never thought I would see that.

[cocoy396]

the mercury "attacks" the silver on the coin, but by rubbing the mercury onto the coin, only the coating is removed, revealing the preserved shiny layers of the coin.

[aftoyboy]

"How to shine a sliver coing"

[jmitterii2]

By the way, this will just make your quarter toxic. What a waste of mercury.

[TheDiamondgirl4gm]

i just want my own MERCURY .if ONLY they SOLD it in STORES!(not in nuclear facilities) :)

[shadowhunter369]

shiny

[rolesvill]

lol ya'll niggas havin fun makin fun of me?

[MYEYESONECONOMY]

you now have a highly poisonous dollar ;P

[SlowTimeMotion]

This is illegal in the state of California

[Nippyton]

1953 columbus sailed the ocean blue......

[SaxonWR]

mercury is beautiful

[Jimbob0Tyler]

@rolesvill It's only illegal if you plan on putting it back into circulation

[dondondonman]

it makes it shiny cuz it fills in the scrackes and small niks if there skinny that coin is now toxic and can not be recirculated dont spend it

[IsaacKarjala]

@dondondonman dude, that is $5.50 worth of silver, I doubt he was going to spend it.

[dondondonman]

@IsaacKarjala holy shit is that really worth 5.50? 0-0 i have like a 500 bucks in erly 40s to late 50s quarters and thats only if there 25cent ech woooooo im geting a new car fuck ya tx man

[IsaacKarjala]

@dondondonman just double checked coinflation dot c o m, $5.64 per.... but coin dealers are going to buy for a few % less than that...... but you know what would make a really good thank you? 1 or 2 rolls of those quarters!

[dondondonman]

@IsaacKarjala lol dam that would be like giveing away 100 bucks im thankful but not that thankful

[whoopshwoop]

where do you get all this mercury?

[planejet42]

But, will it blend?

[fleszmuzik]

@planejet42 nie pierrdol

[chimpman1187]

@planejet42 ok i wanted to say this for a while that is the stupidest comment i have ever seen so stop posting it people!

[planejet42]

@chimpman1187 It's definitely not as bad as "then I took an arrow to the knee".

[shukfahid]

odd. when i was very young i dropped a bead of mercury on some silver bullion i have. the mercury soaked into it like water on cloth. i still have the silver bar 25 yrs later and its never tarnished. whats going on there?

[xGHOSTxclan]

it is a liquid metal so it is like polishing it

[mkzhero]

is destroying coins is really against the law in America??

[DoNotSaySHE]

@mkzhero I don't believe so

I mean they have penny squishers in national parks to they would be breaking the law even more than us since they are earning money off of it

[mkzhero]

@DoNotSaySHE k..

[PeteforPrez]

im pretty sure that the mercury is amalgumating with the silver sulfide exposing the pure silver underneath.

[rolesvill]

ever occur to you its a felony offense to deface legal tender?

[taofledermaus]

@rolesvill  Thanks for the legal advice.

[Stikg]

@taofledermaus Now that is shiny as damn!

[MakeEveryMomentCount]

@taofledermaus How is that defacing? he basically just made it look polished.

[TronixGuy93]

@rolesvill Legal tender can kiss my ass.

[nickbhalo]

@rolesvill IF you plan on using it defaced then it is illegal. How do you think the machines that stamp pennies legal?

[Wilson1592]

@rolesvill No judge or government will ever waste time with a small matter like that. They may if you're destroying millions in legal tender, but who would do that?

[steamingpoopfart]

@rolesvill Actually no its not.

[luislaracuente]

@rolesvill Not necessarily. Never seen one of those coin machines that turn your coins into some shape by making it flat? It is a felony only if you intend to use the currency afterwards. Besides, this is more cleaning than defacing.

[iamthegreatest591]

@rolesvill please explain to me those souvineer penny crushers at any major theme park or attraction? they are completely defacing money, and yet I dont see the police arresting every place that owns one of those machines...

[awwurdead2]

@rolesvill cleaning off oxidation from coins without altering the actual shape, weight or form is not considered defacing.

[PoliticalSmackdown]

@rolesvill LOL with the current administration defacing everything and anything American you ask that question??? 

[wowwee2000]

@rolesvill cool story bro

[dondondonman]

@rolesvill that is only if you intend to recirculat the money is it a felony

[jfsklanfklewnionmiof]

@rolesvill it comes out looking better then before o-o

[csxconductor100]

@rolesvill its not

[lerpman1990]

@rolesvill looks like it still has a face to me

[oddsource]

@rolesvill not if you do not put it back in circulation... which means you don't use it again

[StuffWithAlex]

@rolesvill This quarter would already have been destroyed by now, by the government... yeah that's right they destroy old coins and make new ones.

ლ(ಠ益ಠ)ლ

What a retard!

[Mr1fedupdude]

@rolesvill

Fiat "legal tender" is not money. Silver quarters and gold are though.

[1deedylan94]

@rolesvill too bad he didn't deface shit.

[forsakenworlddragons]

@rolesvill its not defaced at all. he made it prettier o.o

[4mpeed]

@rolesvill its illegal to deface it then USE it you can melt a quarter and as long as you dont use it it is completely legal.

[MrJordanreed386]

@rolesvill he didnt deface it fuck face if u watched the video he made it shinyer

[BlackDragon4716]

@rolesvill What they mean by that is to, for say, take a doller and write curse words on it, and then spend it somewhere.

[marmariarar]

@rolesvill te;ll this to all the people who carve in dimes and stuff?

@rolesvill it is actually not illegal its your property, you can do what ever you want to do with it.