And a horribly hard lesson for me!
The coin itself appears to be an attractive coin and $40 is not an outrageous sum. You could keep it in the holder, you could crack it out and...
No more a catalyst than eggs are in making a cake. The thiourea is a reactant that causes the silver oxide or silver sulfide to revert to silver...
I agree with you, that is why I would like to see what @BadThad has to say about the matter.
Sorry, not a catalyst either, just one of the ingredients that go to making up the witch's brew that constitutes a reaction.
DANG!!!
Like this post. Cleaning (or conserving, if cleaning offends your sensibilities) by many means should be acceptable, except that the clean,...
Have to get a chuckle from this one. One of the labs I teach asks the students to rank elements they are examining as dull or lustrous. I am...
By any chemical definition I know of, thiourea is NOT acid. Thiourea is commonly used in an acidic solution though.
Not sure if I totally agree with the wikipedia article, especially when the same article recommends (and I quote): "Internal treatment[edit] If...
Not sure if I would call the green patina verdigris. Verdigris will spread and eat up the coin, but AFAIK the green patina won't. Perhaps...
WC Fields... "I'm very fond of children - girl children, around [age] 18 or 20." (from The Bank Dick )
I look forward to seeing your Icelandic coins again. Welcome back!
Temp got close to 90 here today.
Yeah, my daughter in Portland, OR has a CA phone #.
Thanks for all the replies. I live in Camarillo and according to the Craigslist listing, he says he is in Ojai, which is 10-15 miles away, but...
My daughter married a guy born in India but raised in Singapore. They went to India for Christmas in 2014 and I asked them to search around and...
Wish there were, but this is the photos he posted in Craigslist.
Being new to ancients, I have the idea that Nero's are relatively scarce. I saw this and wondered if it were real and how good/bad a deal it was....
I'll roll up my pants legs!!!:shame:
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