Turning lead into gold (lead iodide)

Ok, so today I'm going to try to turn some lead into gold. The first step is to get a few pieces of 
lead, and to add some dilute nitric acid. What I have to do next is get a beaker, and add some boiling water, and a small amount of potassium iodide. This all dissolves really quickly, and on top of 
this, I'll add a bit of vinegar, and that little lead solution from before. Now all I need to do 
is turn off the stirring, and basically just wait.

Ingredients:
1) 0.5g lead metal + 50:50 nitric acid:water
2) 500mL water, 1g potassium iodide, 5% vinegar
3) Profit?

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[Xavier-glcj]

"Even though it is Lead Iodide it looks like gold"
*Proceeds to sprinkle it over his dessert as edible gold flakes*

[lancemannly]

Fun fact, its perfectly possible to transmute metals into gold, namely mercury and platinum. Synthesizing gold by irradiating mercury via neutron bombardment was first done in 1941. It can also be done in a particle accelerator

The only problem is the gold is a radioactive sludge and the process is exponentially more expensive than the gold is worth.

But *technically* the alchemist's goal of chrysopoeia has finally been achieved

[guilhermebraga]

Imagine showing this to the Greco-Romans of old, or even Egyptians of ages ago... even to the medieval Europeans of a much, much later period, they would all be in total and absolute awe before this, as the capacity to change metal into gold was such a legend for them...

[lukas]

I’m fairly sure chemists keep the coffee filter market afloat
Edit: It’s incredible how many people didn’t get that this is a joke. Clearly coffee filters are mainly used by coffee drinkers

[Nikolapoleon]

As a historian, this raises a lot of questions.

How long have people known how to do this? How long have people understood what "lead iodide" is?
Has anyone, in ancient history, learned how to do this before? What did they do with that knowledge?

[Xizilqou]

This guy is inching closer and closer to full on alchemy

[rodrigokuszek]

I cannot believe how cute that tiny flask is

[Totalinternalreflection]

The alchemist that discovered this had their hopes raised all the way to the sky I’m sure.

[DaniPaunov]

Not gonna lie, with how crazy some of your projects get, I wouldn't have been surprised at all if you actually made gold from lead

[morshoe]

Maybe this is how alchemists supposedly “turned lead into gold” very neat experiment

[shyammaisuria]

I'm convinced that chemistry is just alchemy but knowing what you're doing

[Ironmat]

This dude should be a chemistry teacher! The kids will love him!

[chickenniggets]

NileRed's GF-"Can you buy me some jewellery?"

NileRed-"How about I give you some Lead Iodide?"

[bleedingbloodyfork]

1:13 PLOT TWIST: it was actually sniper's piss.

[viditsinha]

Nile Doesn't yeet the product to wall
Me: unbelievable

[reubenvanwyk]

He said " and then i lead it dry" bruh didnt know this man had puns

[ShadowOfWarfare]

How has it taken me THIS long to see that 0:40 written on the beaker is "NileRed"?

[juanvaldivia]

I can't help but imagine an alchemist tricking a king into believing they turned lead into gold with this

[Bladavia]

Nile : I'm going to turn lead into gold
me : oh yeah, where's your particle accelerator ?

[Tactix_se]

0:05 this is the most adorable flask I’ve ever seen.