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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brg5658, post: 1866989, member: 29751&quot;]While this is true, it&#039;s not exactly something that&#039;s very easy.&nbsp; To do it appropriately (at least that I&#039;ve seen) you need to have a very precise way of measuring volume displacement.&nbsp; That usually means submersing the piece in water, measuring the amount of water displaced.&nbsp; Then weighing the piece in grams.&nbsp; This will allow you to get the grams / cubic centimeter density of the metal.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The ratio of the density of the metal to the density of water is the &quot;specific gravity&quot; (also called the relative density).&nbsp; But you can ignore that part, and just compare the density of the metal you find to the density of known metals.&nbsp; Based on the tables I can find, white metal has a density of 7100 kg per cubic meter.&nbsp; Silver has a density of 10490 kg per cubic meter (<a href="http://www.csgnetwork.com/specificgravmettable.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.csgnetwork.com/specificgravmettable.html" rel="nofollow">link here</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>But, as I already said -- while this test will give you an idea of the metal content -- it is quite laborious and (quite frankly) not very feasible for a large quantity of medals.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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