Extracting silver from used X-ray film

CAVITE, Philippines--Hia Lecaroz, a student of Joseph Marello Institute in San Juan, Batangas, has discovered a way to extract silver from used X-ray film. This silver can then be used for jewelry. Video taken by INQUIRER.net reporter Lawrence Casiraya at the Intel Science Fair held in Tagaytay City.

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[anthonyroma]

way to go !! very informative great video

[mattamal1]

You would be suprised how much you could learn if there wasn;t a load mouth a hole blabbering in the background.

[FINEDENTIST]

you would be surprised how much silver you can harvest form old films and from discarded developing solutions

[12345helper2011]

@ranitaromano  could pls give me step by step information on this i need this for my project thank you

[mike1959p]

great vid, lots of good info. do you have the procedures written out and what materials are needed. I am in canada and would like to try this

thank you

[nkhan183]

@racelplacido my personal e-mail is m.arshad.talktalk.net

[nkhan183]

@racelplacido Hi i've got alot of coins which contain about 10-20% silver and they might also have paladium, can you tell me the best method to recover the precious metal in the low grade scrap.

Could you please inbox me, Thanks

[SFR1985]

Interesting!

[racelplacido]

the best way to recover Ag from films is the dissolution process with dilute nitric acid then precipitate it with rock salt or cemented it with Cu., this process wont dectroy the plactics, that means no burnings, no smokes. thanks.

if you have questions about precious metal recovery, just email me @ racelplacido@yahoo.com

[Repomex01]

@ranitaromano yeah like 3-4 volts dc