Making purple gold
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mentions it as a fascinating example of chemistry persistence and as something people learned from, such as discovering purple gold exists.
What it is
NileRed tries to make a ring from pure purple gold, a gold-aluminium intermetallic that is brittle and hard to work with. The 53-minute video follows the chemistry and many failed attempts before he produces a finished ring.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2023 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends whartung · 2024-07 · on “Making my own wedding rings”
There's a fascinating video of a fellow trying to make a ring out of Purple Gold. [this video] No, I hadn't heard of purple gold either.
Cites kragen · 2023-12 · on “The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive”
interestingly, the day after you posted this, popular youtuber nilered published a video in which, after staggering amounts of effort, he successfully makes a beautiful finger ring for himself from purple plague [this video]
Cites ajsnigrutin · 2024-02 · on “46% of Americans didn't read a book in 2023”
Sure, but if when are you going to open a book on SNES (super nintendo)? For comparison, here is a very interesting video series for anyone with at least some programming knowledge: [LINK] Sure, you could buy a book about snes (not even sure if any good ones exist) and read about that... but you're not that interested into the topic, because it's something old and not something you'll actually do... but here's a 6 minute video, that you'll probably watch... and if it's interesting, you'll go down a playlist and see "how thing were done" "back then" and learn something new. Ever heard of Tefifon music player? Neither have I, until i saw the video: [LINK] ... i would have never bought a book o