IT'S ON: Trump Announces Big Trip – First Time In 82 Years That A President Will Travel To Fort Knox, KY. “We’re gonna go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there.”
(conservativebrief.com)
🤜 GOLD SHALL DESTROY 🤛
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Bring a pocket knife to carve random bars, to see if theyre lead coated in gold 🙂
Lead has a density of 11.348 gm/cm3. Gold has a density of 19.238 gm/cm3. It is a glaringly obvious difference and easy to measure.
The metals that have the same density as gold are nearly as expensive, so fakery would not work.
Yeah. I hear a tungsten alloy ( for faking Ag) or even platinum alloy (for faking Au) has been used to fool cheaper electromatic devices. (Pt may be pricey, but the Au to Pt ratio has been 2 :1 and now 3.3 : 1 for a decade or so). Honestly, I was more making a point that there may be fakery afoot. I assume many here know their metals.
Tungsten would be a very poor substitute for Silver, since it is 83.3% more dense and very discernible. Platinum is 11.25% more dense than gold, so it would be easily detectable. No electronics are needed to check density. Balance tools are available, whereby you insert a coin (or billet) of specified diameter and thickness, and it either balances properly or does not. Or just take measurements and weight and calculate the density. Moreover, they all have different melting points.
People try to counterfeit, and maybe succeed in some cases, but in principle it is very difficult to counterfeit these metals, since they are easily discerned. (Just as a side note, silver has about 92.55% the density of lead, so the idea that the Lone Ranger used silver bullets would actually have been practical. I have read that sometimes silver is added as a trace to bullet lead in order to provide smoother friction down the barrel for cast bullets.)
Yes. I think because the silver has a a high lubricity, it is good to mix with lead. Also it's antimicrobial properties make a good choice for utensils. I know I've talked with quite a few metals and coin guys and they have mentioned (i thought) tungsten being used, for faking Ag or Au. But at that density it doesn't seem likely.