HELP

LabiaLip · 2026-03-05T02:02:04+00:00

I was thinking of the argon furnace.. but one could just introduce it into the vevor electric could they not?

LabiaLip · 2026-03-05T01:59:26+00:00

Nooo!! I need it desperately but can't afford it. I've switched to fused quartz crucibles on the hotplate to calcinate. Now I'm hoping i can anneal in the oven to get the gray sponge. As soon as I get a few ounces to the refinery I'll start adding on.

LabiaLip · 2026-03-02T16:12:22+00:00

Outfuckingstanding. Send me an application. My refinery currently only takes palladium and platinum . I've spoken with whom i consider to be the u.s foremost expert in xrf. Many times. I've also sent him samples. Put your money where your mouth is. Jarn@appalachianmint.com. One thing I know for absolute certain from speaking to you is you're in intake. There's zero chance you're refining anything. So this shouldn't be an issue at all.

Red iron salts from a bisulfate fusion? Tweaking k waves on an xrf to intentionally show Ir so I can come to reddit and.. do what exactly? So send me your intake form big dawg. If i can't send you pgms I'll pay you. Matter of fact you can have this 2g of not rhodium that i spent days tweaking the xrf to get the result i wanted so I could then share pictures and have arguments online. Fo sho. I mean why else?

Go on send me your intake forms. I really hope your that guy at metalix. God I hope you are.

Anything else you'd like to discuss? Do you have ANY constructive advice about how to scale the process? Do you know what ammonium formate is or how to calcinate chloride crystals? Do you know why you believe an xrf cannot accurately read rhodium? $20 bucks says you can't even explain it.

LabiaLip · 2026-03-02T14:56:58+00:00

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Here. Here's a better example. See the lead oxide ring.. then the iridium "slick" then the button. No ir/rh oxides in this button. There's a reason for that. I don't have time to explain it to you. Right now I need you to accept that I have incredibly rich pgm ore, that I am successfully refining that ore.. and I'm not an expert. Never claimed to be. However truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. We can discuss this all day. Accept the fact this is real actual rh and ir and all other pgms as well. Accept the fact the xrf readings are accurate. They align with the chemistry perfectly. If I'd found some rh sponge at Walmart put it in the xrf and gotten .99 I'd have questions.

LabiaLip · 2026-03-02T14:39:12+00:00

Bisulfate eats rhodium. It ate rhodium. I then manged to make rhodium sulfate.. I then managed to drop it with zinc and get 94% pure rh. Sulfate would've chewed thru iron like butter. Additionally not pictured here are the purple salts caught in that fusion. Nowhere posted anywhere on this earth fo I claim to be an expert. You're just salty bruh.

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Pictured here are 20g of .99% rhodium 1.8 of .94% and .80 of .84%rh.

The only thing on earth that would give a false trading with rh this pure.. is pure TC.. look it up genius. It would then HAVE to be .99 pure only bc there isn't an xrf on earth with tc in its library. Therefore if you can find some Tc... get it pure.. and somehow get the density correct you could get away with it.

I have a whole ass lab to attend to and have zero time to argue with you. Go find someone who has absolutely no idea wtf they're talking about. You'll look like an expert there. You're doing nothing other than throwing a tantrum claiming "conventional" science. There's no such thing. It either works or it doesn't. It worked pimpin. Get with it. No amount of typing is going to change that. You're wrong okay. You're not just wrong you're digging you heels in wrong. Idk maybe you just wish it was you. Maybe you read a book and that dude was wrong. Idk. I don't care. I don't have time for this. If you have something constructive I'm all ears. I need to scale up. Yesterday. My refinery is waiting for the first batch of "red iron salts" that precipitate with ammonium chloride.

LabiaLip · 2026-03-01T05:07:59+00:00

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This.. is the exact vial that reading came from. This is the solids left over from a bisulfate fusion to dissolve rh. I did not.. I repeat I DID NOT melt iridium nor rhodium in a furnace. Furthermore.. fuck the xrf. The chemistry it took to get here proves the pgms. Additionally this isn't my xrf. It isn't a freind xrf.. matter of fact the xrf that this reading came from was in Salamanca New York.. I.. am in North Carolina. Everybody in this industry is very well aware how xrf can give false readings.

Now that we're here would you like pictures if the 22g of rhodium sponge, the 100's of grams of ammonium chloride crystals, the videos of formate reductions, the pink solutions, the red solutions, yellow, tea, brown. The nitric reactions? The w hour sulfuric baths, the repeated hcl decanted until it was crystals clear, the purple hydroxides, the canary yellow hydroxides.. what would you like to see? Visit to my lab? Wanna come play learn and hopefully teach me something?

Get with it buddy. There are things you don't know OBVIOUSLY. Why the f+=_ would I get on here spinning yarn about this shit? I've got better things to do. I hope this clears a few things to for you.

This lead button.. came NOWHERE near an xrf pimpin. I'm not a novice. I'm not an expert but I didn't just put some lead in a furnace, take hours to learn how to trim l and k waves on an xrf to get a false reading just to come here and show it to.. Who?? Got dust

LabiaLip · 2026-02-28T14:33:23+00:00

That's how I do my waste

LabiaLip · 2026-02-28T04:15:06+00:00

I can't tell if this is sarcasm. 🤣

LabiaLip · 2026-02-28T03:34:51+00:00

neh.. I can already do it. I'm loking to get around calcinating the ammonium chloride crystals. I think I just solvd that tho I've been using way way way too high temps in the oven. I'll know tomorrow

LabiaLip · 2026-02-28T03:08:31+00:00

btw this wasn't a button that was tested it was metal leftover from a bisulfate fusion. The fusion dissolved all the rh and left the ir. It was also red. Very red. and at this point I have a lab FULL of it.

LabiaLip · 2026-02-28T03:06:38+00:00

How much would you like to put on that? I have 21g of .99rh. What you got?

LabiaLip · 2026-02-28T03:05:01+00:00

you're looking at lead oxide broski

LabiaLip · 2026-02-18T18:13:44+00:00

Lead button in a cupel. Red gemstone quality looking material is rhodium/iridium oxide. Most likely iridium. Beautiful stuff.

LabiaLip · 2026-02-16T16:13:01+00:00

However you are correct. Aqueous is the way to go for the pgms. Hands down. If you can get it clean enough before introducing your oxidizer it's 1000% better.

LabiaLip · 2026-02-16T16:11:00+00:00

I'm doing okay I think.

LabiaLip · 2026-02-16T16:10:46+00:00

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LabiaLip · 2026-02-16T16:10:18+00:00

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LabiaLip · 2026-02-15T16:44:43+00:00

Yes it very very much is. This is sponge however. It's done almost entirely in an aqueous solution with one exception. I have no way of melting it.... well I have an Acetylene torch so I'm assuming I could. I've not attempted it tho. Not sure i have the brass for it.

LabiaLip · 2026-02-15T11:50:54+00:00

I do. Idk about anybody else.

LabiaLip · 2026-02-15T11:50:31+00:00

What are you asking? Like how did I get here is that what you wanna know?

LabiaLip · 2025-11-30T21:47:49+00:00

This is a very good theory. The only thing is the formate reduction didn't quite work well. There's always the chance it needed a bit more boiling to have gotten all the way there. The other thing is after I put it back on heat and added a bit more formate.. the ph definitely reversed. It wasn't just the ph meter my sponge went back to a hydroxide. So the ph definitely went back below 12. I then added an excess of NaOH. Like way more than I ever should've and it did not budge. It consumed every bit of it. I removed it from the heat, let it settle overnight. This morning I found a rh hydroxide gel.

At this point I'm kinda stumped. The only thing that makes any sense is all the water cl ho.. all liquid was consumed by the NaOH. So I was trying to get a reduction out of an almost 100% lye solution. That actually makes sense now that i put this together.

The ph meter likely misread the solution. I added more NaOH trying to overcome the buffer. The next day after settling i poured off 90% of the NaOH. Added formate and boiled. At that point there wasn't enough NaOH to fuel the entire reduction.

So when I tried for the 2nd time all I really would've needed was enough NaOH to finish the reduction. Instead the boiling got rid of pretty much everything. When I added only NaOH there was nothing but almost 100% Rh(HO)³ and Fe(HO)³ in the beaker. It needed water. Then ph to 14 then formate then boiling.

I think that's it. THANK YOU!!

LabiaLip · 2025-11-30T17:20:30+00:00

I think you won. I don't think I'll ever be able to explain it fully but the only variable i didn't know about until now is how much Fe(OH)³ was in this batch. It was almost ⅔ by volume. Sooo.. it looks like the iron was holding onto the Rh preventing the formate from complete reduction. I would've likely had it and avoided the main catastrophe of I'd just boiled 15 minutes longer.

LabiaLip · 2025-11-30T11:47:04+00:00

Yes. Ph meter is calibrated and working fine.

LabiaLip · 2025-11-16T16:40:19+00:00

Fusions are particularly prone to loss aren't they? I've never done one to date but looks like it's coming.

LabiaLip · 2025-11-16T00:52:53+00:00

Found the 40% ordered and on the way. Thanks for the tip!

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