01-04-2010, 01:02 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:What were the composition of most of the fake bars? Lead covered in gold? A gold amalgam? Other? These days there is so much DU around, that might even be cheaper than gold by a long shot. Hey buddy, your gold bars are radioactive!.....
They're Tungsten Peter - a lot heavier than lead.
Specific gravity just 1% ish less than gold so near impossible to spot without drilling - though I've no doubt some form of electrical impedence gizmo could be produced.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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