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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 6503522, member: 105098"]Why do people carve or spoon coins, wittle wood or paint? For something to do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe someone with the chemicals messing around with various things to see what happens. Maybe someone getting into plating and deplating, or getting into reclaiming precious metals from computer boards and cellphones and testing methods of extraction on coins and then refining it back into the pure metals again.</p><p><br /></p><p>If it was done how I think with the oxidizer, it's maybe an hour with set up and tear down. The processes for getting back to pure metals would be other steps and separating the nickel from the copper that's been dissolved in the solution is a good learning experience if it's something a person is interested in even just refining gold or silver to a higher purity but not wanting to try first with something vauable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 6503522, member: 105098"]Why do people carve or spoon coins, wittle wood or paint? For something to do. Maybe someone with the chemicals messing around with various things to see what happens. Maybe someone getting into plating and deplating, or getting into reclaiming precious metals from computer boards and cellphones and testing methods of extraction on coins and then refining it back into the pure metals again. If it was done how I think with the oxidizer, it's maybe an hour with set up and tear down. The processes for getting back to pure metals would be other steps and separating the nickel from the copper that's been dissolved in the solution is a good learning experience if it's something a person is interested in even just refining gold or silver to a higher purity but not wanting to try first with something vauable.[/QUOTE]
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