melting gold

Melting pure gold with a hydrogen torch (5200 F). The flame is not usually visible on camera, it is froma small hypodermic needle. The video was taken through a microscope.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• gold
• hydrogen
• melting
• oxyhydrogen
• torch
• welder

[YTBYlover]

what do you use for a table?

[VulcanGrey]

the "table" was a piece of steel. Can use anything non flammable.

[SuperEvilLemon]

is this wire about the same size of solder?

[VulcanGrey]

the wire was about the same size as solder wire.

[halopqd]

no such thing as pure gold

[VulcanGrey]

this was 99.99% better than 24K (wiki at 99.9%)... That's about as pure as you get.

[SlipknotMaggotKurt]

It looks so awsome i wanna just eat it!! :P

[bosch101]

2:49 it looks sick when it solidifies :D

[srslayerz]

looks like a golden malteser

[boochieboy814]

Obliderated it!

[vulkein]

thanks! I'm going to be melting some gold dust I panned out of a stream into a single nugget.

[alanbchk]

what's those rough things on the surface?

[Claybreaker2]

the solidified gold floating on the liquid gold is very neat to watch....this is pretty much I believe how the continents are moving around on the earth.

[1111isNow]

@JappSlapp00 gold is indestructable, thats why its gold

[PutYuInDaGame]

in the end it looks like silver

[theonlyone100100]

2:50 looks like the earth lol

[JappSlapp00]

Does this damage the gold in any way?