How to Turn $50 into $500 using Chemistry?

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Now I am going to tell you more about some expensive and toxic substances.

[chemistryofquestionablequa]

Buy platinum group metals. They're valuable because of their rarity and their use as catalysts in many chemical processes. They don't really get used up in the reactions and can be reverted to their metallic state.

[fraggzbN]

It worked, my $50 gold is now worth $500. The only downside was, that the chemicals cost me $450.

[leothecrafter]

I think compounds for biology are still the king of expensive compounds, like some toxins, like a amanitin which can cost +100€ for 1mg. There are of course much more expensive compounds but even commonly used ones like probes and enzymes are super expensive per mg

[Aios]

1:10 As I know the D₂H can also be separated from ordinary water by freezing it. Deuterium has a bit higher (~ +0.1C⁰) freeze temperature than H₂O

[enamelbucket]

one of the many downsides of these process is that depending on the reagents used, you may not know the contaminants in them so it could add a significant ammount of impurities to your product that could havle a drastic effect on the price. one place might buy your 5 grams of Chloroauric acid for whatever ammount, but if its only like 95%-98% pure the place might not even want to buy it. from what ive gathered from metal refiners and chemists who do stuff like this, any significant ammount of impurities will tank your earnings, plus even if your product is pretty pure you still have to buy pure reagents, which are expensive, so this is really only viable if youre doing it in a large scale (50+ gram ammounts).

[Firstkub_]

Main problem for most of the people would be finding the place to sell such products. I admit that it can cost more than the original reactants but finding a buyer for me would be hell I guess

[alexbutler]

I could listen to this guy read the phone book and be entertained. The intonation of his accent is just great.

[WouterVerbruggen]

Regarding the superconductor, it's much "worse" when you want to make usable "wires" from it to make magnets. You need the YBCO to be almost perfectly single-crystalline, which requires vacuum deposition techniques. The endproduct, a thin tape, costs in the order of 50 euro per meter these days (but quickly going down thanks to private fusion power companies like, Tokamak Energy, ordering thousands of kilometers of the stuff)

[amedeeabreo]

Bob Lazar claims to have 228 grams of Element 115, which of course provides the anti-Gravity drive for the saucers at Area 51. He should be a
very rich man, but says he misplaced the material somewhere along the way. lol

[abx]

I have most of those metals. I think it's time to diversify and see what lab equipment is needed (and cost). Thanks for the idea.

[shortaybrown]

Great video my Estonian friend! Keep up the great work !!

[jimurrata]

We should look at the price of antimatter.
It is VERY energetic when annihilating typical materials.

[BracaPhoto]

Speaking of Tritium -- they synthesized it in my home town 👍 Joint venture with DuPont at the Savanah River facility...
Anyway yesterday i acquired the book "History of DuPont at the Savannah River Plant"

It goes into a TON OF DETAIL about the original design of the HEAVY WATER extraction plant built here - Different iterations of the target and cladding designs...

Even discusses how they changed the equipment around to start targeting Tritium for development of Hyperbaric bombs

Tons of original photos also 👍👍

[Kricnit]

Oh yeah, I can see a government research facility purchasing chemicals I made in my basement. 🤣😂

[Mic-sg]

The way he manipulates chemichal compounds makes him look like a modern day DaVinci. I love this channel!

[markgrayson]

10:35 Don't show this to NileRed.

[Nadesican]

Now if only I could find a company willing to buy chemicals from a random unknown chemist

[herrhaber]

Good list, I'll leave Os to others though :)
We can make a few of these compounds but never expect to sell them at the same price as Merck, Fisher etc.
Hobbyist cannot guarantee the purity / effectiveness of the compound / catalyst in the same way as those firms can.
It's the same issue with silver refining. Who need Umicore to assay twice refined silver ? It's gonna be 99.99% with or without their stamp...

[kestans]

make car rims from nitinol. Hit a pothole - collect insurance money. heat up nitinol - rims return to original shape - repeat hitting potholes for infinite insurance payouts :)

[marcfruchtman]

Such an amazing video, so informative! Thank you.