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Post by Sir John on Oct 25, 2012 16:11:55 GMT -5
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Post by boxcar on Oct 25, 2012 22:06:02 GMT -5
I would not have attempted to break the nugget into pieces. I would have placed the nugget in water in a container that was full to capacity. That way the water would have overflowed the container.
I would than have collected and measured the volume of the water that overflowed. (The gold would have displaced its volume). Knowing the volume, I could have multiplied it by the weight of gold per unit volume and determined the overall weight of the nugget. This way the nugget would have been kept intact and I would have known the weight of the nugget without breaking it up.
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Post by Sir John on Oct 25, 2012 23:06:15 GMT -5
Thank you Mr Archimedes.
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Post by Swampy on Oct 25, 2012 23:56:20 GMT -5
There's gold in them thar hills.
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Post by Sir John on Oct 26, 2012 0:04:43 GMT -5
Swampy,
The 'Welcome Stranger' has some rock embedded in it and that was a problem when the Bank weighed it to get its approximate value. It was a good guess after all.
The area here in Victoria was and still is called "the Golden Triangle", where 2000 TONS of gold was extracted during the Gold Rush.
One of my ex convict ancestors found a nugget weighing 80 ounces.
SJ
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