Right you are, Paladin. The density of tungsten is very close to the density of gold. So a tungsten bar covered with a thin veneer of gold would pass the Archimedes test for gold.
As a side note, there was a Chinese company selling such tungsten bars as a “novelty item” a few years back.
I don’t know if they’re still in business. But the “novelty item” thing was just a cover. They were selling their bars so that the buyers could later commit fraud.
They were selling their bars so that the buyers could later commit fraud.
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i bought some generic oz. rounds of silver a few years back , that when i went to sell some of them, the coin shop checked them with one of those strong magnets and one of them turned out to not be solid silver , just silver plated.
lots of fraud out there.