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kibwen
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Survival of the richest: Inside the short-lived fa...
Much cheaper to stock up on fake gold and bank on the fact that nobody else remembered to stock up on aqua regia.
roenxi
on June 2, 2024
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They could do a density test with water if there are concerns about whether a substance is really gold.
egberts1
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Acid test, teeth indentation, maliablity (sp).
Rhapso
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Those are things you do to gold, not with gold. How would they help?
egberts1
on June 2, 2024
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Those are ( along with other OP’s suggestion of water displacement density test) are used to test the gold apart from “fool’s gold” variants.
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