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Uploaded by on Jan 11, 2010

We dissolve gold into aqua regia (a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid) for the first of our extra "Molecular Videos" series.

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  • Cleaning your beakers with aqua regia? Kind of like cleaning your room with a hydrogen bomb.

  • Hahahaha From Being Serious Looking For Cool Videos I Started LMAO at 0:17 !!

  • How about cyanide... dis can dissolve cold? ...and, some people have insatiable appetite for gold....

  • he makes chemistry look so easy.

    lol

  • "Really Bang the Dirt!" :D

  • @DevilMaster

    probably took a trip with those naked protons...

  • that guy's hair is king of the animals

  • I would take him more seriously if he had a pick in his hair.

  • "Damn, this beaker is so dirty even aqua regia can't clean it up! Let's try fluoroantimonic acid!"

    Some time later...

    "Hey, where'd that beaker go?"

  • @jvcrules yay, thanks! I completely forgot about heating to get rid of HCl!!

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