mmmmmmmmmm... could also have been from the salt on your fingers if you touched the wire (even when it was cold), doesn't really look green to me.
I didn't know that... Platinum is also the densest (or one of the most dense) metals known. Edgar Varese wrote a composition called Density 21.5...
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Careful, sometimes you almost make sense... :)
...still is tradition, but remember, burning witches and bleeding people to cure ills were also tradition.
From your own source... "The most ductile metal is platinum and the most malleable metal is gold."
For you @Marshall it's LOVELY...
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You prefer coffee?
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For a clad dime, the weight should be from 2.177-2.359 g, so yours is out of spec. Could be a slightly thick planchet.
OK, to do the Beilstein test, you can use a disposable cigarette lighter or pretty much any source of flame (I've used the lighter, but never...
So, you CAN take decent photos... Try doing this with the coin in this thread.
Your phone doubled died? You dropped it off the Empire State Building into a swimming pool?
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