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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"I have always wondered if you couldn’t relatively easily use some other physical property to non destructively distinguish gold and tungsten. The speed of sound in gold is about 3240 m/s, in tungsten 5200."

Ultrasound Testing of Gold Bars - Checking for Tungsten or other materials

97 posted on 06/30/2020 10:36:50 PM PDT by Left2Right (Keep America Great!)
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To: Left2Right

GMTA. It does strike me as an obvious test.


101 posted on 07/01/2020 3:56:00 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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