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<p>[QUOTE="davidh, post: 2149182, member: 15062"]True in theory; Not so in practice. A cubic foot of Copper weighs 559.87 pounds; a cubic foot of Nickel weighs 555.72 pounds; a cubic foot of Cobalt weighs 552.96 pounds.*</p><p><br /></p><p>A cubic foot of gold weighs 1206.83 pounds; a cubic foot of Tungsten weighs 1204.41 pounds.*</p><p><br /></p><p>Differentiating small pieces of these materials by a weight to volume test is virtually impossible to anyone without highly sophisticated equipment.</p><p><br /></p><p>*ref: <a href="http://www.coyotesteel.com/assets/img/PDFs/weightspercubicfoot.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coyotesteel.com/assets/img/PDFs/weightspercubicfoot.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.coyotesteel.com/assets/img/PDFs/weightspercubicfoot.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It's thought today that much of the world's Gold bar reserves are, in fact, gold covered tungsten, and are correct both in weight and volume but are only 50% or less gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="davidh, post: 2149182, member: 15062"]True in theory; Not so in practice. A cubic foot of Copper weighs 559.87 pounds; a cubic foot of Nickel weighs 555.72 pounds; a cubic foot of Cobalt weighs 552.96 pounds.* A cubic foot of gold weighs 1206.83 pounds; a cubic foot of Tungsten weighs 1204.41 pounds.* Differentiating small pieces of these materials by a weight to volume test is virtually impossible to anyone without highly sophisticated equipment. *ref: [url]http://www.coyotesteel.com/assets/img/PDFs/weightspercubicfoot.pdf[/url] It's thought today that much of the world's Gold bar reserves are, in fact, gold covered tungsten, and are correct both in weight and volume but are only 50% or less gold.[/QUOTE]
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