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deathrain

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questions about yield
« on: December 08, 2018, 06:28:34 AM »
So just waiting for my power source to arrive I started wondering what kind of yield I can expect from 1 gram of gold.  I know there is a lot that can happen that will affect this so I was also wondering what i can do to maximize my yield.

Offline cfnisbet

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Re: questions about yield
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2018, 08:49:18 AM »
Have a look at the instructions in the articles.

Follow those instructions and one gram of gold is 1000 milligrammes. If you make a cupful of colloidal gold and it contains 10 milligrammes, then you can make 100 such cupfuls.

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Re: questions about yield
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2019, 09:21:45 PM »
To put it another way, 1000mg equals 1000ppm in 1 litre of water. Or 40ppm in 25 litres of water, which is more the concentration the formulas here are aiming for.

You can maximize yield by making sure the cathode and anode are properly positioned. For example: If you have a clockwise water flow, you could put the cathode at 6 o'clock and the anode at 9 o'clock, requiring liberated gold ions to have to travel a 3/4th rotation before they could plate onto the cathode.

There is otherwise none to very little loss. Evaporation of water just concentrates the remaining solution.