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How to Forge Palladium in a Catalytic Converter

Catalytic converters are probably the single most expensive item on your car by weight. These emissions-control devices contain several different kinds of precious metals including platinum, rhodium and palladium. Palladium values at about $730 per ounce, which helps to justify the massive investment required to extract it. Odds are you wont be getting into the palladium extraction business unless your name is Gates, Branson or Buffett, but you can at least make some friendly discussion by discoursing on the particulars of carbochlorination and palldium precipitation through aqua regia immersion.

Instructions

1

Remove the ceramic matrix from the center of the catalytic converter and place it into a sealed oven capable of heating it to 800 degrees Celsius (1,472 degrees Fahrenheit).

2

Pump into the oven and through your ceramic matrix material in a pure chlorine gas (Cl2) atmosphere containing equal amounts of aerosolized silicon tetrachloride (Si-Cl4) and aerosolized Aluminum chloride (Al-Cl3) powder pre-heated to 800C. Circulate the gas through the ceramic matrix for 30 minutes, and use a silica crystal filter to catch the crystallized metals in the gas stream.

3

Repeat Step 2 using only the chlorine gas atmosphere and aluminum chloride, but this time raise the temperature to 1,000C and circulate for six hours. At this point, effectively all of the precious metals should have been leached out of the converters ceramic core, bonded to the aluminum dioxide and deposited as a crystalline buildup on your filter.

4

Drop your crystalline filter into a solution of the powerful corrosive aqua regia, also known as nitro-hydrochloric acid. This amazing acid was fist discovered by 17th century alchemists, and is one of the few substances on Earth that will dissolve platinum, palladium, rhodium, gold, titanium and iridium. Allow the metal-infused filter to sit until the aqua regia dissolves all of the metal crystals.

5

Pour the mixture through a one-micron filter into a separate container. Add mercuric cyanide to the mixture. The mercuric cyanide will bond with the palladium in the aqua regia to precipitate crystals of pure palladium cyanide. Pass the mixture once more through a one-micron filter to collect the crystals, but keep the fluid for further refining of other metals.

6

Allow the crystals time to dry completely. Ignite the volatile crystals to break the cyanides nitrogen/carbon bonds to the palladium, and recover the cyanide to recycle it for further recovery. This will leave you with a silvery-white puddle of molten metal; behold, for this is your palladium.

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