Producing Gold From Motherboards Posted by Admin on 12:21 AM inGold,motherboards ,pictures ,producing,producing gold from motherboards ,producing gols,producing motherboards| 3 comments All text is translated from the Russian language, we apologize in advance for spelling errors. Today you'll learn how you can get gold out of old motherboards with your own hands. Please note: chemicals that are used in the demonstration, very dangerous, especially when combined concentrations. Therefore, we do not recommend repeating this experiment at home. Gold is present in many components of the motherboard: Connectors IDE, slots, PCI Express, PCI, AGP, ISA and other ports, bridges, the CPU socket and slots DIMM (SIMM on oldermotherboards). All of these connectors are often covered with a thin gold layer thickness ofseveral microns. Tools The first phase of our experiment is to remove all these contacts and connec tors. We will need wire cutters, pliers and cutter, flat and Phillips screwdrivers, as well as some amount o f time.
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Producing Gold From MotherboardsPosted by Admin on 12:21 AM in Gold, motherboards, pictures, producing, producing gold from motherboards, producing gols, producing motherboards | 3 comments
All text is translated from the Russian language, we apologize in advance for spelling
errors.
Today you'll learn how you can get gold out of old motherboards with your own hands. Please
note: chemicals that are used in the demonstration, very dangerous, especially when combinedconcentrations. Therefore, we do not recommend repeating this experiment at home.
Gold is present in many components of the motherboard: Connectors IDE, slots, PCI Express,
PCI, AGP, ISA and other ports, bridges, the CPU socket and slots DIMM (SIMM on older
motherboards). All of these connectors are often covered with a thin gold layer thickness of
several microns.
Tools
The first phase of our experiment is to remove all these contacts and connectors. We will needwire cutters, pliers and cutter, flat and Phillips screwdrivers, as well as some amount of time.
For the experiments need a large number of contacts - they just gave our "donor"motherboards.
We also need chemicals and tools.
Electrolysis
To get a few micrographs of gold deposited on the contacts, we need the electrolytic cell. Inthe bath poured 95% concentrated sulfuric acid. The cathode is made of lead, the anode - from
copper. Contacts (raw materials) are connected to the anode, which we have done in the form
of 35% hydrochloric acid and 5% chlorine bleach (sodium hypochlorite) in a ratio of 2:1. 2
HCl + NaClO -> Cl2 + NaCl + H2O
Be careful! This reaction is exothermic, it leads to the release of chlorine gas is verydangerous. Chlorine is used as a chemical weapon in World War II.
In fact, chlorine, which is separated by mixing hydrochloric acid and chlorine bleach, we just
will be used to dissolve gold in a gold chloride III. 2 Au + 3 Cl2 -> 2 AuCl3
Now we need to melt the powder in the crucible. The melting point of gold is 1064 ° C, so
that we will need an oxygen-butane burner.
In the end we got a nice golden pellet! Can we call our process economically viable?
Definitely not. It only makes sense on an industrial scale. A small pellet of gold, which we
received, it is worth only two or three dollars at current prices. And, frankly, a company toextract gold from old computers that use different technologies and chemicals, which are even
more dangerous. But you will agree, it is still interesting to know that you can get gold out of
the motherboard in the home. You can also get gold from expansion cards, processors andchipsets.