BTW...mostly because the compounds which can be formed between these compounds and silver COMPOUNDS are explosive, silver itself doesn't react so...
Wasn't there a trial piece that to increase the actual metal value to one cent that they had a silver plug in the center?
Please get one thing straight. The caustic nature of a chemical can be a warning sign, and the strength of the solution is also important. I...
Caustic is not usually reactive with metals...uh, don't use it on aluminum.
Wouldn't mind PMing, just honestly don't know. @BadThad, any ideas?
Depends on two things, 1) Are you wanting to do this professionally 2) do you REALLY want to get into it this deeply...actually 3) do you want to...
I'm not sure what the chemistry behind this might be, but I'll look if I get a chance. In the meanwhile, experience often trumps book-learnin'.
Actually the eh was meant as a joke. Canadians are known in the USA as ending many sentences with an - eh? True story...I was in a gift shop in...
I know someone else knows more about this than I do, but it does seem curious that Great Britain has "Pennies" and the colonies here have "cents"....
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Additionally, it seems to be the consensus of opinion (not unanimous though) that any contact between a coin and anything else should be limited...
Eh?
After reading this yesterday, I got my first call from them. Very nice young man was humping the new South African gold coin, I just told him I...
I know, disgusting isn't it...now where is that emoticon with the little guy throwing up... I am green, not with verdigris, but with envy!
OMG...are those legal!!!???
You beat me to it.
Have never worked with X-ray diffraction, but from my readings and from people I know, there is powder X-ray diffraction and single crystal. This...
Sounds like an interesting question for @BadThad
I won't even hazard a guess, it will be interesting to see what it does grade at.
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