Isolating Iron

YouTube finally paying Cody might be the only good business decision they've ever made

That magnetic separation is ridiculously cool. I've seen it done plenty of times where you pull everything out with the magnet manually, but not a separation of a constant flow like that. Really fun to watch

Hey Cody! Let me propose another experiment on this topic. Since you are surviving on Mars, imagine that for some reason you have lost your oxygen and are forced to urgently get it by electrolysis of water. But what to do with excess hydrogen? Just burn it? You'll waste your oxygen again. But we know that there is a lot of iron oxide on Mars. And if you burn iron oxide in a hydrogen atmosphere, you get pure iron and water again. That water, which can again be decomposed into oxygen for breathing and hydrogen. This way you don't lose water, but you only need to add iron oxide over and over again in this cycle. And there is a lot of it on Mars.

One idea to get a more compact lump would be to add some charcoal powder mixed in with the magnetite in the stuffing of the "burrito". The carbon will dissolve in the molten iron making pig iron which melts at a lower temperature and is more fluid, thus allowing the globules of molten metal to coalesce better.

That magnetic separation is genius! Very clever

I still love that black sand separation method you came up with. Its so simple but works so well.

I absolutely love the selfie at 2:32 with Cody holding the baby sized thermite burrito

If you do this again, I strongly recommend adding some borax in the sheets to act as a flux. It makes the iron separate out MUCH better, often into a single pure lump

The photo of you with the 30 pound bouncing baby thermite bundle is hilarious

I'm absolutely LOVING the high frequency of videos being uploaded Cody! You've been my favorite Youtuber for YEARS. Thank you for doing what you do. You've taught me so many things throughout the years!

I used to watch your videos when I was 10 years old, I'm 17 now. I'm so happy that you're still making the same kind of videos, doing what you love. Hearing "alright everyone" with your thumbs up was a distinct part of my early chemistry curious childhood. You alongside Grant, and Andy from HTME were all I watched. Thanks for everything.

Back to the old style. I love it! Please continue and stay true to yourself. Thank you for all the hours of great content.

Wow, if only cavemen knew all you needed was a 1 dollar roll of aluminium foil....

Now Primitive Technology just needs to invent Aluminum Foil and he can get better yields on his own iron smelting!

This ASMR (Awesome Shiny Metal Recovery) content is great! Thank you, Cody!

Glad you took a break in the middle of the project to have a 14 pound burrito for lunch and included a picture for us!

I love how identifiable Cody's breathing is haha

Dude, i first saw your video on rare metal refining where you refined gold from computer chips 8 years ago, now im in college studying science with nanotechnology and i have to say that i wouldnt be where i am right now if youre down-to-earth science in your backgarden videos hadnt inspired me and made me realise that science is something you can even do at home, and here i am again, looking at the first video ive seen reccomended from you in years and it put a smile on my face, still doing excellent work! Thank you man for your easy to understand and overall awesome videos!

I liked this video style A LOT

I was like "What's the point of sprinkling a small amount over aluminum foil? Rolling it up like that, he's not drying it... Thermite? Oh... huh, yeah, thermite. That other video experimenting with thermite chemistry totally makes sense now!"