Nicholas D. Collette Email:
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MANUFACTURE PROCESS:
For this process you will need: - 3 liters distilled water - 450ml of 70% Nitric acid - 14.6 liters 30% Hydrochloric acid + a little more for neutralizing your wash water in steps 9 & 10 - Sodium Hydroxide diluted 1 part to 10 parts distilled water - 6 grams of non-iodized pure salt - Hot Plate with Plate with precise temperature control - 1 liter glass flask with a screw-top glass stopper [ email [ email Qglass.com] Qglass.com] or you can use a bottle. - 1 liter glass beaker - 500ml glass graduated cylinder for measuring
(1) Dissolve 1 ounce of pure 24K gold gold in 800ml Aqua Regia (1 part Nitric, 3 parts Hydrochloric) This may take over 8 hours without heat. You can heat it up to 140 degrees F, but heating up any further will result in the Nitric acid decomposing. Don't use a flame for heating, since decomposing Nitric acid fumes can ignite! (2) Evaporate the acid down to 100ml and then refill back to 800ml with Hydrochloric acid. Repeat at least 20 more times, but don't evaporated on the last time. Keep it filled back up to 800ml.
(3) Add 2 grams of purified salt, and stopper the flask with an airtight seal. Heat for 21 days at 121°F. The solution should now be nearly water-like crystal clear. This is the White Lion. Add another 2 grams of salt, and heat for 21 more days. The solution will turn a greenish hue. This is the Green Lion. Here is a photo of the Green Lion chloride.
And here is is the Green Green Lion precipitate precipitated d as a hydroxide. hydroxide.
(4) Add another 2 grams and heat for 21 days. The gold will turn a brilliant red. This is the Red Lion. You must now pour the liquid in a beaker and evaporate the acid at 150°F. Make sure not to scorch the crystals by overheating after a solid has formed. Below is a photo of gold chloride that was accidentally burnt.
(5) Now add 500ml of deionized water (distilled water) to the crystals, and heat until fully dissolved. Let the liquid cool off, and then adjust the pH to 13 or 14.
(6) Let the stone precipitate to the bottom overnight. Now separate the above water from the precipitate using a glass pipette attached to a ratchet pump. Or if you are very careful, you can just pour off the water. Save the liquid because it contains the "oil of gold" and also a lot of the better m-state that was too charged to settle to the bottom. [This top water will need to be adjusted down to pH 7 by using hydrochloric acid, drop by drop] The precipitate may not settle on the bottom, and it may attach to bubbles and float to the top. If this happens just gently tap the side of the beaker and wait for it to fall back to the bottom. Sometimes this takes days because the precipitate keeps floating back to the top. If you try and filter it, the white powder will stay behind in the filter paper but will be infused into the paper like glue. This is because it's still in it's hydroxide form. (7) Add 500ml deionized water, and wait overnight for the precipitate to settle. Remove the water. This water can be ingested (since it contains the some of the better m-state) as long as you adjust the pH to neutral 7.0 and you also make sure that NO precipitate is in it. Some of the precipitate still contains gold hydroxide, and in the next steps, you will be taking care of that little problem. Repeat this step 5 times to clean out the sodium hydroxide. Ingesting this wash water is dangerous since this is the Red Lion. Even a few drops could completely change the template of your mind. Don't take this warning lighty!
(8) Now take the water you saved the first time (which contains the oil of gold) and add that back to the precipitate. Heat this in the sealed screw-top flask at 150°F so that the oil and m-state can unite and be married. Then evaporate the water at the same temperature (150°) until a powder is formed. Stir it every now and then while it's drying so that it doesn't clump up and stick to the beaker as bad. Use a wooden chopstick or a glass stir rod to do this.
(9a) To purify it, you must heat it at 300°C (572°F) for 1 hour in order to anneal off the hydrogen. Then digest it in 250ml Nitric acid for 2 hours at 120°F in the sealed screw-top flask. The sodium will dissolve but the m-state will form crystals because of the acidic environment. Filter through a stack of 3 coffee filters. The white crystals will stay on the filter paper. Pour water through the filter over and over until the pH is 7. Now let the precipitate dry on the filter paper in the dark. You now know that there is NO gold hydroxide, gold chloride, or gold nitrate in your crystals because they would have dissolved into the Nitric acid if this were the case.
(9b) To make the crystals superconducting, repeat the heating process again 5 or more times, and each time let the crystals cool completely. It will become a fine powder that reacts to a magnet. But it's better to leave the stone as crystals, because once the material is superconductive you only have a few days to ingest it before it looses it's superconducting properties. It will also be less of a shock to your body. After it's in your body for a while, it will become superconductive.
NOTES: - If you don't have any chemistry knowledge and experience, and somehow the above instructions are confusing to you - then you should NOT try to perform this procedure. - If you don't file the coin into a powder or pound it into foil, then it won't completely dissolve in only 800ml of Aqua Regia. Regia. This is because because Aqua Aqua Regia looses looses it's power after after a while. - In step 2, if you don't evaporate at least 20 times, the gold chloride won't be in small enough clusters sizes and the solution won't completely change color into the Green and Red Lion. This simple method of evaporation is an inferior one because you will never be able to get 100% of the gold chloride down to it's smallest cluster size. The best thing to use is gold chloride from a chemical supply company. Not the AuCl4 but the AuCl AuCl gold chloride. If this is used, don't evaporate in the first step because it will cause the gold clusters to recombine. Also, you can use the pH Swing method to make better gold chloride.
pH-Swing method This technique reduces the gold chloride clusters to a smaller size. In alchemy this process is known as "dissolve et coagula" - dissolve and coagulate. c oagulate. It's purpose is to make gold chloride that is suitable for use in the Red Lion method.
Tetrachloroauric acid (HAuCl4) is yellow and is soluble in ethyl ether (but never mix gold that is in Aqua Tetrachloroauric Regia with ether - the reaction is violent and could easily explode - I've seen this happen). The chemistry of these reactions is: Au + 4HCl + HNO3 -----> HAuCl4 HAuCl4 + NO + 2H2O The reaction of HAuCl4 and lye yields gold hydroxide: HAuCl4 + 4NaOH -----> Au(OH)3 + 4NaCl + H2O The reaction of gold hydroxide and HCl gives HAuCl4: Au(OH)3 + 4HCl 4HCl -----> HAuCl4 + 3H2O
Experiment 1
1. Gold foil was taken from a bottle of "Gold Rush" which is an alcohol that contains 24k gold flakes. It was filtered through a coffee filter and once dried, most of the flakes were 'glued' to the filter paper because of all the sugar and flavoring in the alcohol. A better method would have been to evaporate the alcohol, then add water and evaporate over and over until the chemicals were cleaned from the gold. 2. Less than 50mg of gold foil was dissolved in 20ml of Aqua Regia made with 1 part Hydrochloric acid and 1 part Nitric. The gold solution was yellow. 3. 200ml of water was added and then pure sodium hydroxide crystals were mixed in with the acidic solution to raise the pH to 14+. The sodium hydroxide was added in increments of 1 tsp. This step must be done with caution because of the dangers that come from mixing a strong base into a strong acid. The solution gets so hot from the reaction that it begins to steam and bubble. At first it was clear like hot water with steam bubbles in it. i t. Then it became very dark purple; so dark that it looked like black snow was precipitating to the bottom. Once the precipitate settled, it appeared black except for when viewed from just the right angle. It could then be seen to have a very beautiful beautiful luminous violet color.
4. After a day of letting the precipitate settle, the water was poured off the top, and the precipitate was dissolved with 20ml of Aqua Regia again. Adding acid to a strong base is very dangerous, and a tiny acid smoke cloud is created when you do this step, so do it outside. Actually this entire process should be done outside anyway. Wear proper safety equipment and clothing. The solution was now very pale yellow. 5. Steps 3 and 4 were repeated 4 more times to make a total of 5 times the pH was adjusted from 1 to 14+. On the second time a precipitate was formed, it was visibly violet, and did not appear as dark as the first time. When dissolved in acid, the solution was a very pale yellow again, but now it had a slightly greenish hue. On the third time a precipitate precipitate was formed, it was violet violet with a slightly pinkish hue. hue. After being dissolved in the acid, it was was much less yellow and had more more of a green tint. On the fourth time, it was a pink precipitate with only a hint of violet. When dissolved in acid it barely had any color at all. There was no yellow, and maybe maybe just a hint of green. On the fifth time, it was a very light pink precipitate precipitate which was white at first. first. It was not dissolved dissolved in acid again, because because now it is *supposedly* *supposedly* at its final final stage. 6. The water was poured off the precipitate and new water was add (200ml). After the precipitate settled overnight, the water was poured off again. This step was repeated four more times to make a total of 5 times washing. This cleans out the sodium hydroxide. Once it's cleaned out like this, the precipitate settles on the bottom of the beaker in a very different way. It gathers in the center, and makes a perfect disc in the middle of the beaker. It also has a more beautiful pink glow to it that is soft and even throughout the precipitate. It's now ready to be dried and used in the Red Lion process. But skip the first step of that process and evaporate because it will make the gold chloride recluster into large size clusters again, thus totally don't evaporate defeating the purpose of all your work.
Below is a photo of the precipitate in a test tube as it's falling to the bottom. The flash from the camera reflected the pinkish hue quite a bit onto the paper. The true color of the precipitate is a much lighter pink without the orange orange tint that is the photo. photo. It actually looks looks just like a pink pink cocktail drink. drink.
Alchemy recipes recipes from the Middle Ages always always used wine to dilute the stone to make it safe for digestion. So I took some of the precipitate made by the above pH Swing method and dissolved it in 5ml hydrochloric acid. Then I added 100ml of water and 20ml of Camelot wine. NEVER do this with Aqua Regia, because the Nitric acid can react with the ethanol in the wine and cause a huge explosion!!! I dissolved the precipitate in hydrochloric acid that was strongly diluted in water in order to convert the material to chloride form. The purpose of me doing this was to see if this material produced similar or identical effects as the Philosopher's Stone when diluted in wine.
The wine does not readily mix with the acidic water, and 2 distinct layers can be seen in the photo below.
Alchemist's of the past past would digest the wine and acid in a flask on low heat for a few days in order to get the 2 solutions to mix. You can also just gently stir it. After letting it sit for a day, I stirred up the solution, and it became a golden orange orange color, much much more orange than than in this next photo: photo:
A scum film formed on the surface of the solution. This film was also found on wine mixed with the Philosopher's Stone of the middle ages. From an anonymous treatise on the Philosopher's Stone called "Tractatus de Lapide" comes the following quote: "neither is it sufficiently brought to yellow, until the Wine have round about the sides a ring like Hair, of a whitish film, which will show itself plain when it is well dissolved, if it stand but four hours quiet. As soon as you see this whitish film, then let it run through a clean linen Cloth, or Paper, so the white film will stay behind and look like a pearl on the paper: and all the rest will be yellow like Gold."
A modern French Alchemist by the name of "Brigitte" had this to say about the reasoning behind mixing the Red Lion with wine after visiting a group of Tibetan monks: "The alcohol of wine softens the crystalline structure of the Red lion, which can be seen in the laboratory under the microscope, it has the shape of the star of David. Its light that shines so bright in the most beautiful color I have ever seen, under the microscope."
Experiment 2
This time I used electrolysis to bond the sodium to the gold:
1. Three 9 volt batteries were connected in series (they snap together) to form a 27v DC power source, and a solution of salt water was prepared by dissolving 1 tablespoon of salt in 2 cups of water. A 3 gram gold coin was spilt into 2 halves to make electrodes. One electrode was connected to the positive side of the battery series and the other gold electrode electrode was connect connect to the negative negative using tape and wire. wire. 2. The electrodes were immersed in the salt water solution. (Be careful not to let the tape get in the water because the chemicals will will get into the reaction) Hydrogen gas is released, and it causes brain damage in pure form so this should be done outside. The batteries drain quickly and get very hot. Stop the reaction when they get too hot and let them cool down, down, then continue. This was done for 30 mins. The pH adjusts from acidic to alkaline very fast as the sodium becomes detached from the chlorine and forms sodium hydroxide. Then the chlorine bonds with the hydrogen to form hydrochloric acid. The pH paper had both pink and green spots when dipped for only a split second because the pH was adjusting so fast and both acid and base chemicals were present. The sodium attaches to the anode gold electrode (the one connected to the negative). As this is happening gold is also coming off the cathode electrode into the solution and it can be seen as a yellow hue floating on the bottom of the beaker. 3. The gold that went into the salt water solution was ignored and discarded and my attention was turned to the electrodes instead. They were both dissolved separately in 2 Aqua Regia solutions of 50ml. I didn't think at the time to remember which one was the anode and which was the cathode. But one of them had a white film covering the outside - this was probably the anode with sodium auride on the surface. After they had dissolved in the acid, one turned green after 3 days, and the other had a small amount of white powder at the bottom that wouldn't dissolve. I added some new Aqua but the white powder still didn't dissolve. Below you can see the 2 solutions and how different their colors are:
4. I chose to work with the green solution for now since it was already showing a color very different from normal gold chloride. It was diluted with 100ml of water, and it now looked more yellow than green, as can be seen in this next photo:
5. Now the pH was adjust to 14. I had to add pure NaOH crystals to the solution because because there was so much acid. This is very dangerous since bases and acids react strongly. It took almost an entire cup of NaOH crystals to get the pH to finally flip to the alkaline side. Gold hydroxide precipitates best between pH 8 and 9 and at pH 14 it is a little soluble in the solution. That's why the solution is yellow in this photo:
6. The water was poured off, and more water was added and the precipitate settled settled to the bottom again. This step was repeated until the pH was neutral. 7. Most of the water was removed removed from the gold hydroxide precipitate, precipitate, and 10 drops of 30% hydrochloric hydrochloric acid was added. The gold chloride now has a more emerald color.
8. The solution was again diluted to 150ml with water.
9. And the sodium hydroxide was precipitated out.
10. In these 2 photos below, you can see the precipitate settling out of solution. The solution is green, but the precipitate is pure blue.
11. Here it is after a the first wash:
12. And this is the precipitate settling out of solution after the final wash. You can see it's now a beautiful cyan blue:
13. The acid was again added to make gold chloride. It's now more of a kelly green:
14. It was diluted with water then precipitated with NaOH again:
15. Here you can see the color of the precipitate better. It's an even cleaner blue than photo 11:
16. It was washed, and acidified again. Now it's no longer green but a marvelous turquoise: turquoise:
17. After another precipitation, the color is a very different blue, much less cyan:
18. After being washed and acidified the gold chloride is now a turquoise with a more blue tint:
19. Here you can see it precipitating in the beam of light:
