Timeline for Could a gold/{second metal} crown be created that would pass the Archimedes test cost effectively?
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| Feb 7, 2016 at 0:23 | vote | accept | James Jenkins | ||
| Apr 15, 2015 at 21:39 | history | edited | Air |
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| Feb 6, 2015 at 8:59 | comment | added | slebetman | Not sure about 200BC but this has happened in real life. A few months back several gold merchants in New York discovered that they've bought fake gold bars made of a tungsten alloy wrapped in a thin casing of gold. Gold merchants always test their gold when buying. Partly to accurately weigh the gold to get the karat value and price. So the bars passed the Archimedes test. | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 21:43 | answer | added | Brendan Long | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 21:09 | answer | added | Mark | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 18:44 | history | edited | user16 |
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| S Feb 5, 2015 at 15:01 | history | suggested | thomasmichaelwallace | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed accidental "the" in title- as its the first thing people will see.
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| Feb 5, 2015 at 11:21 | answer | added | SF. | timeline score: 16 | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 10:57 | comment | added | James Jenkins | @ratchetfreak to some extent, but it need not be limited just to an alloy, you might encase pockets of air, and/or heavy metals in gold or plate with gold to achieve the weight you are looking for. | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 10:54 | comment | added | ratchet freak | In other words is there a cheap gold alloy with the same density (to some accuracy) as gold? | |
| Feb 5, 2015 at 10:51 | history | asked | James Jenkins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |