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Uploaded by on Sep 19, 2008

Demo 8 HChem

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  • The Sorcerer's Stone does not give eternal youth. that's the fountain of youth. In the Harry Potter book it says that the stone stops you from dying and also turns any metal into pure gold.

  • Ooops, totally my bad. Sorry.

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  • I thought the pennies were only turned into a gold color, not into actual gold. You were just kidding when you said it took you years of research to discover the formula, weren't you? I mean, is it really possible to turn Cu into Au? I highly doubt it. Awesome experiment though.

  • sodium hydroxide and zinc thats all it is

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  • I think when you heated the pennies in the beaker they got coated with zinc, then when you heated them the zinc alloyed with the copper and made brass.

  • the finished product is acually bronze not gold

  • @TheBugsy98 Hardware store stupid, ever thought of that?

  • where the fuck do you get zinc powder?

  • I did this in my school I was the only student to get it. Your process was different and it works better, mine was about 90% gold not all of it.

  • probably with a gold salt.. but then you would need gold to make gold salts (if its even possible? :S) so... why.. do that? maybe its possible to make another metal into silver.. you ever heard about the reaction between sodium hydroxide and magnesium? Mg + NaOh = Na + MgOH that means it makes sodium metal (the alkali metal) and magnesium hydroxide.. (: i wanna try it.. there videos about it and all.. but it takes alot of time to make a bit of magnesium to me.. its also really rare :/

  • If we could all turn copper into gold we all be doing by now. What he did was was boil the *n*l . After that the so called "gold" is just a nice gold/brass color V_V. IF only I can my hands on *n*l

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