22 Dec
2001
22 Dec
'01
7:52 p.m.
Tim wrote:
...gold can be melted and all traces of origin lost, save for some expensive tinkering with isotopic ratios, maybe.
Gold, last I looked, had a single stable isotope which accounted for 100% of its natural abundance. 79-Au-197. One piece of pure stable gold is indistinguishable from another. So if your gold is pure and isn't radioactive, it hasn't been tagged by isotopic ratio tweeks. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"