oh you too let's do a video today on the acids for silver and gold testing okay you know you
may have I've seen something this on TV you might be a little unsure about what it's about
but it's acid is really important when you test silver and gold you can have something that looks
good and when you acid test it - not it might look like it's gold when you ask to test it
you might find it's not I believe this is gold plated silver but so this video let's do about
acid testing and basically the way you know what you want to do is you need to understand that it
might be gold-plated okay and so you want to go ahead and scratch hard and you want to if there
is gold plating there you want to wear the gold plating away and you want to like kind of start
out one area and this kind of keep working you know down right so and you want to do it while
scratching hard if you have a little chain like this and might be kind of hard you might need to
get like a bunch I kinda like this maybe put over your finger or something and then try to like you
know like you know do it okay so anyways let's go ahead and acid test this I got this for about
a dollar a little over maybe dollars six dollar seven I was buying some other stuff and they let
it go for about a dollar maybe tax - whatever anyways let some you know if it's um if this is
10 karat I should be able to do a scratch right here right I should put 10-carat acid on it and
the 10-carat acid should not eat it up okay so now what if it's higher than 10 carat so what we want
to do is we want to put 14 karat on it as well and try to not let the assets mix okay so no I might
have to redo that it looks like they're gonna mix oh no no oh okay we do all right let's do that
again so here we go come in like so and let's take the 10 karat and like that and then let's
go ahead and take the 14 and you know without the mixing and let's see if the 14 karat now it
looks like the 14 karat is um it's it's harsher on it already see this the 10 karat is more you
can see the gold more and it looks like it's kind of eating it up now let's go ahead and take and
do another scratch on it and this time let's go ahead and let's put the 18 karat on it and see
what happens it looks like the 14 karat is pretty much eating it away so do 18 karat on it and wow
look at that BAM okay you might see little blue specks there might have been stuff from remnants
of silver or something on there let's do it again another spot so or something or wipe it okay just
so you know 18 karat is a excellent tester to test for silver so let's go ahead do this and when when
you do 18 karat for silver it should test blue there's a bubble don't get confused okay so yeah
it looks like I ate it up quickly now so let's compare the this so right here we have the tin
right there's the 14 you pretty much ate it up right hopefully I can shield the light and see
tin looks good kind of pretty much eat up so it looks like that that piece that this is at least
10 karat gold okay so now what about the change because one way to tell if it's gold is to look
at the clasp and if it's missing the class you know so this is like acid is really important to
come in and test to see if stuff is really gold or not what is underneath the surface so let's
go ahead and see how I have it on my finger like so let's go ahead and just go like might
need to do it a different way here alright so op watt it up alright hang in there with you okay
so let's do the 10 karat up at the top you can see and let's do about 14 karat
so see what happens and then let's go to another piece and try the 18 all right 18
karat BAM demolished it okay so what it's kind of looking like is the chain might be 14 karat
because you can see right here here's the tin there's a without 14 and over here is 18 in it
just like is holy though the 18 just demolished it let's just go ahead another time and take the 14
okay so awesome so anyways guys acid testing is really important it's not that complicated
you know not really wearing the safety goggles I probably should I it would be a wise thing to do
and I would recommend that you should probably wear gloves and safety goggles even though I'm
not but anyways if you really need to know what it is you really need to test it and so you guys have
any questions about the acids and how to use them please put them in the comments and if you know
another way to do it please put in a comment and other people can learn from you so like the video
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