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of the yellow liquid. Completely drying the gold chloride solution and
further heating it causes the 33 atom gold molecules to reform. This
defeats the process and the experimenter needs to restart the process.
When no more lightening occurs, decant the colored liquid from the white
crystals and recycle it to the Aqua Regia bottle. Dissolve the remaining
snow-white salt crystal mass in water and use a coffee filter paper to filter
out any remaining gold clusters or large debris. Boil down to ensure there
is no color change due to large clusters still forming. It is essential to
achieve snow-white salt crystals at this stage or the pH adjustment, Step
(9), will fail and Steps (2) to (5) restarted.
9. Step (9): pH adjustment requires patience. The initial
adjustment must not be faster than 2 hours. If you change the pH too
quickly, it will alter the reaction and revert to black, dark blue, brown or
brick red. It is best to adjust slowly over 3 days with constant stirring.
The pH moves a lot at first and then more slowly. Use a non-metallic
stirrer. Except for spot checks, a pH meter is of limited use. The probe
requires frequent rinsing and will eventually fail. Follow the directions in
the patent: bring the solution gently to pH 7.0 and check that it stays there
for 12 hours of stirring.
10. Step (10): is very dangerous. Adding nitric acid to remove
the chlorides of the salt crystals produces thick, brown, noxious fumes.
Work in the open, upwind and away from the fumes.
11. Step (14): It is essential the tube furnace heats to 800 degrees.
Two gas tanks are required, one with argon and the other hydrogen. First
heat the precipitate in the tube furnace in air, which produces brown
oxide. Purge the tube with argon. Heat the product under argron. Slowly
introduce hydrogen and turn off the argon. Allow to cool and slide the
quartz boat back and forth, which turns the brown oxide to black hydride.
This looks like iron filings. The hydrogen is removed to leave a white
powder by repeated heating and cooling under argon: 15-20 minutes in,
then out etc for a number of days. It can be turned-off at night and
restarted the next morning.
12. Step (16): Filter out any black or grey solids with average
filter paper. This may produce a clear liquid instead of the precipitate
mentioned in the patent. Instead of using 0.45micron filter paper that
clogs up immediately with precipitate, boiled down the precipitate to
remove most of the water. The clear water will turn milky and thicken to
hydrogen auride precipitate with water, what the ancients called the
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