Cleaning Crystals With Acid
I have consistently seen these three products recommended over and over as a way to clean quartz crystals, let’s test them all side by side and see which one will yield the best results.
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I think that I would have separated the rocks from the Muriatic acid while soaking in the baking soda because of the stain. And maybe mix up the Iron Out periodically as the specimen soaks. Just a thought.
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I usually use oxalic acid on my rocks with good results. I got some Iron Out and gonna try it today.
One thing I have found out, after cleaning rocks, I put them in a big bowl covered in vinegar.
I’ll leave them in the bowl for 6 weeks and it pulls a lot of the salt off the quartz, crystals and agates. Leaves a huge salt ring at top of the bowl, like a margarita!
Thank you so much for this demonstration!
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Hey, just wanna ask if carnelian is safe in lemon juice. I have a lovely wire wrapped carnelian pendant and wanna clean the oxidised copper with lemon juice and wanna make sure it won’t dissolve the carnelian
Reliable channel. My memory issues cause me to revisit this channel. Thanks for this clip. I currently have a Ellensburg blue with a crystal platform. Exactly what I needed to see.
This is a test, it’s only a test. Thanks for the info.
Thank you for the video! Could you give me an advice regarding muriatic acid? How to determine when you need to change it? It turns orange after the first use, but is there any indicator when it’s bad to continue with it?
Also, if you put the yellowish tinted rock in Iron out, would it really remove the tint? I mean, you say in the video that it could. But did you do it?
I know I’m watching this a year later but I’m curious about cleaning with coke cola.
My son and I went to Jackpot, NV after seeing your video. Crazy long drive from Spokane 8:14 for a weekend, but we had lots of fun. Now we have all of these agates that need cleaning. We’re first timers for all of this. What do you recommend?
If you do not likea little dirt on your minerals than just give them away and buy you a necklace, maybe a bracelet. Ahahaa minerals will bs dirty yall. When you start doing stuff like this is when you ruin it. Remember rhese took millions of years y
To form. We can destroy them in minutes. Be careful yall. Fun fact crystals can hold memory when implimendted by a laser. Super neat and is the future of technology. A special crystal chip the size of a quadtes xan hold up to 10k plus terabytes
Vinegar helps against limestone so people use it
Definitely going to use iron out for mine that I’m finding
Did you ever try to take the yellow out of the acid treated crystal, with a follow up bath in Iron Out?
It seems like the acid does the best job removing unwanted material, but I want to keep my Arkansas finds looking crystal clear!
Iron out works decently.
Vinegar comes in different percentages. If you’re using regular household vinegar it’s 3-5%. 15% is cleaning strength. 30-45% is really great, but 75% will eat through hardened steel tools in less than 12hours.
Would bleach work?
And in large quantity please remember water 1st then acid. It can bubble up and be super dangerous acid burnns are no joke. And happens so fast.
I’ve noticed the iron out turn things blue.
I’ve used vinegar as well as muriatic acid for years. Vinegar takes forever, weeks as opposed to hours with muriatic. There are different stains as well. Vinegar won’t touch some that muriatic will. The yellowing is hard to get out. Vinegar will work sometimes but it can take weeks as well. I’ve never tried Iron Out. Thanks for the info.
Vinegar is good for heavy algae and silt.
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I prefer the Iron Out method and have never diffused it. But since you showed me how I will do that from now on to be safer. Excellent video.
I laid brick and stone for years, we used muriatic acid to clean the mortor off the stone after laying it. Muriatic acid works better and faster than anything else you can use. However, that is because it is SO STRONG. The only thing you did wrong with the MAcid was not scrubbing it immediately. The stone, even the brick, yellows if you leave it in contact with acid without removing it.
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What about cleaning amethyst crystals? My amethyst is already clean but not shiny. Thanks.
Ever used a like water pick like for your teeth or a pressure washer?
A nice comparison. Thanks!
I did the same test with a bunch of corundum crystals. Only the Muriatic acid did the job, vinegar: nothing, Iron Out: changes the iron but doesn’t necessarily remove it, Muriatic Acid: Removed most of the iron over night. From now On I will never try vinegar, I have my doubts about the effectiveness of iron out, and Muriatic acid did exactly what I wanted . . .
This was super great to learn. My GF ad I just collected a tons of quartz and are trying to clean it so we will be going with iron out. Cheers!
Hi! How about bleach? Is it safe and effective? Can it affect the crystals’ quality?
I just used Iron Out powder and it worked so well and it was so easy! Much easier than Oxalic Acid.
Vinegar works really well if you have calcium carbonate buildup. Most of the pet wood around here has it and the vinegar works like a charm.
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Muriatic left a lot of yellow staining on mine sulfuric took a long time. And vinegar took a lot of color out but inleft mine in for a long time
Acid wash does it have to be a certain streakth?
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Oxalic acid in croc pot ❤
this might not be your specialty but I have a 21 lb piece of rough hewn milky quartz pillar style. Do you have any idea how much that would be worth?
Please can you tell us how we can clean apatite specimen
What do you recommend for a citrine cluster? Got one from Congo, some call it “kundalini” citrine. Idk why haha but lmk if you think oxalic acid will work best?
what happens if u mix all 3??
I’m really curious with how to clean my Rutilated Quartz. Is it more delicate having the rutile?
Any advice for cleaning the white calcium staining off of a crystal?