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15. After cooling, the ignited white gold can be cleaned of
remaining traces of sodium by digesting with dilute nitric acid for
approximately one hour.
16. The insoluble white gold is filtered on 0.45-micron paper and
vacuum dried at 120°C for two hours. The white powder product
obtained from the filtration and drying is pure G-ORME.
Notes for the Experimenter
1. The acids used in this Patent are highly corrosive and very
dangerous.
2. Wear protective clothing, particularly rubber gloves and eye
goggles.
3. Work outdoors and remain up-wind of all fumes.
4. Do not use any metal at all in the preparation. Instead, use
glass or Teflon spoons and glass containers such as Corning Pyrex.
5. Use a gas burner for heat. Do not use an electric element,
magnetic stirrer or nearby motors.
6. Step (1): dissolve the gold in the Aqua Regia. Once the gold
is dissolved, the process can start right away. It is not a critical step.
7. Steps (2) to (5) convert Au33Cl99 to Au33Cl33. Even though
monotonous, repeat the boiling down and addition of acid about one
hundred times. ‘Just dry’ is very difficult and time consuming. At any
time, stop the process and resume later. Use gentle heat and when
crystallization begins, reduce further. Gold clusters will recombine and
shine in the beaker. When this happens, add more Aqua Regia and boil
down with HCl. Repeat this at least eight times. Each time there should
be less macro-clusters of gold settling out. To speed up the process, filter
out the gold clusters and add them to the Aqua Regia for later attempts.
Eventually, the solution changes from a red acid liquid to dark red-brown
crystals of gold chloride, which produce a purple stain if splashed.
8. Steps (6) to (8): lead to the monotomic salt NaAuCl2.XH2O.
Boil with water, crystallize, add dilute HCl, boil down. Repeat many
times over. If Step 7 is successful, the solution eventually alternates
between the grass Green Lion when concentrated HCl is applied and
citrine yellow gold chloride when the acid is diluted. The final acid
treatment produces the Green Lion if the metal-to-metal gold bonds have
been adequately dissolved. The color will lighten from orange to lemon
yellow and then pale yellow. Larger gold chloride clusters, which have
not broken down, concentrate to a darker orange-red region at the bottom
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