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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1282662, member: 27832&quot;]I... see.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the ancients that ratio411 was discussing must, too, have been thinking of atomic weight -- commendable of them, since most of their peers were still thinking in terms of earth, air, fire, and water, if that.</p><p><br /></p><p>But even so, &quot;gold is second only to lead&quot; would still be wrong. Mercury, also known for thousands of years, falls smack between them -- both in density and in atomic weight, <i>by coincidence</i>​.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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