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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 6361020, member: 40017&quot;]The closest to a Carbon dating for anything metal is to test the content of various elements in the alloy, and in particular their radioactivity. Since the dawn of the nuclear age the level of radioactivity in all our metals has shot up, so that would tell whether it was made pre or post WW2.</p><p>Incidentally this is why pre-WW2 shipwrecks are sometimes salvaged for their metal - it has much lower radioactivity and can be used in products that are very sensitive to this fact, such as X-ray machines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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