[AMPS] Polish Gold?

[Roderick M. Fitz-Randolph]

On Tue, 5 May 1998 at 08:52:56, George T. Daughters wrote:

>go polish some silver... the rag gets black
>go polish some gold...  the rag gets black
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Sorry, the type A personality in me comes to the surface
when I see things like this.

I believe that, if the rag gets black when polishing gold,
that it is not from the gold but rather than the alloying
material in the non-24 karat gold you may be polishing,
but I would be surprised if the gold molecules did not
surround the alloying material sufficiently to keep even
that from happening!  Am I wrong?  I don't believe 24 karat
(pure) gold will turn any polishing medium black.

Rod, N5HV
w5hvv@aeneas.net



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