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"If you can weigh the bar accurately, then you can test for purity by essentially dropping it in a bucket of water and seeing how much the water level rises: a gold-covered tungsten bar will displace more water than a pure gold bar. "

I'm afraid that either myself or the author doesn't fully understand fluid displacement.

parent packetized 11 years ago

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