It's worth emphasizing that @calcol's opinions on this topic appear to be very well-informed.
No, it's about Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence being used on fossils, as it says in the abstract. It mentions some elemental analysis they did on...
When I started collecting, the coin magazines were full of stories (including cover stories) about errors. That was over fifty years ago. I don't...
The Advanced Photon Source (which I linked above) is a billion-dollar facility.
It's a good idea to read articles before posting links to them. The first one is completely irrelevant to XRF, and the second is a general...
With all of today's technology, the best of the best would cost many, many times a TPG's annual income, never mind profit.
Wonder if that means the capacity for producing new ones has caught up to demand? :troll:
Tonight, I'll not only sleep soundly, I'll sleep smugly. :smug:
"Cold solder joint" is quite possible, but I'm still not convinced. I'll be eager to hear what @Insider says.
And once the hopeful flippers realize that there were plenty to go around, I wonder if we'll see a high rate of returns? This one might be...
In other positions, a policy change with "unintended consequences" that enrage your customers is known as "a major foul-up", and a career-limiting...
#1 looks like it was whizzed, then heavily polished. The polishing smoothed away the whizzing hairlines on the devices and in the middle of the...
You may be on to something -- but if so, they did a terrible job. There shouldn't be a large area of burnt flux under where the solder had been;...
There's a raised ridge around part of the feature. In this photo, it looks like coin metal -- but it doesn't really have the look of displaced...
Still available half an hour in, and everything seems quite snappy on the Mint site. Guess there isn't a huge crush of people willing to pay...
Negotiations are ongoing.
Stealing from strangers, fifteen cents at a time. I'm not perfect, but I decided a good while ago that my soul was worth more than that.
I'm sorry, but this sounds to me like "everybody but us is ganging up to stick it to us". I don't really see our government holding down PM prices...
You commented about Treasury trying to "stop people moving 'fake money' into 'real money'". Do you think Treasury is somehow artificially...
Betcha can't mint just 21...
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