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Please be careful and use safety equipment with all chemical processes.

Remember when boiling Acids or strong Hydroxide solutions, the solution may sputter and spit, sometimes right out of the flask. Be prepared for this and do NOT get these solutions on your skin or in your eyes. They are quite corrosive. Rinse and Wash IMMEDIATELY.

I have found it helpful when boiling these solutions to take some broken Pyrex (Boro-Silicate) glass pieces, heat them with a torch to round them, and add these to your solutions. Special boiling stones may be purchased for this purpose but glass works fine, and you probably will have some broken glass after a few "boil to just dry" steps. Toss these into your solution when boiling. It significantly reduces the sputtering, but does not altogether prevent it, so still be careful.

Gold Alchemy - Conversion of Metallic Gold to M-State Gold

Gold Alchemy, as we shall use it herein, pertains to the use of pure Gold as the starting material. The basic processes may be described in the following series of steps. I recommend you read and understand each of the steps discussed, but you may also wish to review the Improved Gold Conversion Method, a simplified sequence from Metal to the White M-Gold precipitate.

Dissolution - The pure Gold, in metal form, must first be dissolved into solution. There are generally two methods which may be used for the processes herein. Both use a Hydrochloric Acid environment with an Oxidizer. And both yield a solution of Gold-Chloride.

   Aqua-Regia - Aqua Regia (Royal Water) is a mixture of HCl (Hydrochloric Acid) plus the oxidizer HNO3 (Nitric Acid). It is an age old and effective agent to dissolve Gold. A molar ratio of about 3:1 HCl:HNO3 or thereabouts is a good starting point for the mixture, but this is not terribly critical. After the gold has dissolved, perhaps using heat to accelerate the process the Nitrates should be removed from the solution. This is accomplished by a boil down of the resultant acid Gold-Chloride solution to a very low volume, to just dry, or until the yellowish Nitrous gasses cease to be emitted. I have found that leaving the gold in the Aqua-Regia solution for at least a day aids in accelarating the process.

   HCl + Peroxide - Another good solution for dissolving Gold is HCl + H2O2 (Hydrogen Peroxide). A very small amount of H2O2 added to an HCl solution will also effectively dissolve the Gold. The amount of Peroxide may be adjusted to speed up the process, but using perhaps a 3:1 HCL:H2O2(3%) ration works just fine, or a perhaps about 10mL of 35% Peroxide in 100mL of HCl. If you find some of the Gold does not dissolve, try adding a bit more Peroxide or both.

I use both of these methods at various times, but prefer the Aqua-Regia for raw Gold dissolution -- it seems to better disaggregate the Gold, and doesn't tend to drop the gold to metal-oxides quite at high pH.

Disaggregation - After the Gold is in solution, we may consider that the Gold is in Clusters, much like small round balls. It is also straightforward to consider that in any reaction, only the outer atoms of the ball react. What we must do during the disaggregation phase is react the outer atoms of Gold and gradually peel them off of the Cluster. This gradually reduces the Cluster Size. As the Cluster Size is reduced, and atoms of Gold are stripped off, a good portion of this Gold will gradually convert into the mono/di-atomic or M-state form. This is what we are after. Again there are two main ways to affect this Disaggregation process, though I am sure there are other methods and variants.

   The Hudson "Boil-Down" - In David Hudson's Patent, he describes a process whereby the Gold-Chloride solution in HCl is continually boiled-down to "just dry". This presumably causes the Chlorine to boil-off as a gas, releasing the bond to the Gold. Then when HCl is added back to the now dry Gold/Gold-Chloride salt, the outer Gold atoms are more exposed to re-bond to the Chlorine. This process is painstakingly slow and exhausting, involves boiling concentrated acid solution, and causes sputtering of the acid as the volume decreases, but does seem effective for the most part.

   The pH Swing - The pH Swing process has an unknown origin probably somewhere in the history of the ORMUS forums, but now is in common use for Gold disaggregation. There are many variants of this process as well, but generally, it may be described as follows. The Gold-Chloride Acid solution is titrated to a strong Basic pH with NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide) or KOH (Potassium Hydroxide). At this point, usually a small amount of the Gold will drop out as a Purplish Precipitate. The Solution is then titrated back to a strong Acidic pH with HCl. Variants include using Carbonate rather than Hydroxide, heating the solution in either the acidic or basic phase or both, using H2O2 to aid in precipitating out the Gold metal Clusters in the basic solution, and using H2O2 to redissolve these metal Clusters in the acidic phase, or any combination of the above. Swinging the pH back and forth creates a lot of Salt. The salt may be precipitated out in strong HCl.
   There are several indicators that the Disaggregation process has proceeded far enough to have broken the Clusters into the mono-atomic state, and a substantial percentage of M-State Gold in solution. The primary and most telling indicator is that, normally, the Gold-Chloride solution is a beautiful Golden Yellow-Gold color from acid pH, through neutral pH, and until somewhere above neutral, but when the solution becomes Clear at a pH of 6.5-7.0, the process is complete. This Clear Solution, brought to 6.5-7.5 pH, with the M-Gold still in Solution, is the "Spirit of Gold" and equivalent to the other similar products on the market, The Golden Tear (Ocean Alchemy), The Golden Dew (Atlantis Alchemy), and The Portal (Zeropoint Technologies).

Precipitation - After Disaggregation, one might also wish to follow in the footsteps of David Hudson in search of the White Powder form of M-Gold, whether we call it ORME, ORMUS, M-Gold, Monatomic Gold, or whatever. The basic idea behind the Precipitation phase is that the M-Gold in solution has a tendency to precipitate out of the solution at a pH range of around 7.0-8.0, or so. In the preparation of the Essence of Amen, I use a product of the pH Swing process above to extract most of the White M-Gold Precipitate, the Salt extracted from the pH Swings, and a Unique M-Gold Extraction from Salt to encourage the M-Gold to drop out. It is obvious when one has obtained this result, for the effect is exactly the way David Hudson's Patent describes it. The M-Gold (ORME) falls out of the solution in the appearance of a "voluminous cotton-like" precipitate, in fact I think that 'gelatinous' also describes it quite well, especially after letting it settle for a bit.
   The Hudson Patent describes, stripping the Gold of Chloride using a Nitric Acid boil-down, followed by a Distilled Water boil-down to remove the Nitrate to get to this Precipitation point. I have found that, though this does work starting with the Clear M-Gold solutions above, there is a much simpler way as well. If you wish more info contact me and we can possibly discuss it.