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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 2679412, member: 4781&quot;]The most durable type of gold plating involves plating a base-metal (copper) object with pure nickel first. Then gold is plated over that. The nickel resists oxidation creating a stable layer for the thin gold layer to rest on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pure nickel is magnetic. What looks like &quot;steel&quot; underneath the surface is just the nickel layer showing through where the gold has worn off.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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