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Message:: [QUOTE="desertgem, post: 1284358, member: 15199"]No, Of course not, and If I implied that, I apologize for my wording. I said this in the previous posting   I thought this indicated I was 'believing you had seen such'  as that is what I intended. I didn't say I "didn't accept" what you said. There are a lot of thing I believe in , even though I personally haven't seen them, such as dark matter, Quantum effects, synthetic life, etc., because they fit into known sets of chemical and physical events. The original argument was against "that acetone reacted with metals and alloys such as coinage (paraphrased)", not that acetone couldn't react to material on the coin metal surface. I do not believe acetone can directly react with copper, no matter how reactive copper is, in environments that we normal exist, based on even the latest chemical evidence. Even seeing a reaction would only lead me to the conclusion that something on the metal was reacting, not the metal itself. I have faith that if it was PVC , acetone could remove it, but not copper metal. I am confident that I could put a single BU lincoln cent in acetone for 15 minutes, remove, let dry , and weigh to 0.0001 grams, and put into a sealed glass jar of acetone, and leave it for 5 years, that it would weight the same when I removed, dried and weighed it again. Doug , I meant no disrespect for you or your opinion, just that I disagreed with the conclusions reached. IMO. Jim[/QUOTE]