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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2236955, member: 1892"]As long as there's oxygen, things are gonna react. That's why they call it <i>oxidizing</i>. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Chemical reactions don't need a chemist to happen, and the atmosphere - more or less in different decades and different places - can have a wonderfully odd mixture of chemical content. You ever notice how Seated coinage is so often found darkly toned? I've the feeling that was to an extent due to the very industrial, sulfur-laden atmosphere in which many circulated back when we were a coal-burning country. Yet, Morgan Dollars kept locked away in bags - even though held in polluted cities - developed magnificent rainbow toning simply because the reaction was slowed down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 2236955, member: 1892"]As long as there's oxygen, things are gonna react. That's why they call it [I]oxidizing[/I]. :) Chemical reactions don't need a chemist to happen, and the atmosphere - more or less in different decades and different places - can have a wonderfully odd mixture of chemical content. You ever notice how Seated coinage is so often found darkly toned? I've the feeling that was to an extent due to the very industrial, sulfur-laden atmosphere in which many circulated back when we were a coal-burning country. Yet, Morgan Dollars kept locked away in bags - even though held in polluted cities - developed magnificent rainbow toning simply because the reaction was slowed down.[/QUOTE]
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