Total Trivia

[EesomeBeastie]

Sterling (or 925) silver is 92.5% silver. The rest of the alloy is usually copper.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

A carat as applied to gold alloys means a proportion by weight of one part in twenty-four, or 41.66 parts per 1000. The higher the carat value, the higher the proportion of gold in relation to the base metal content. Pure gold is therefore 24 carat.

 

[EesomeBeastie]

If you are cleaning silver in dilute sulphuric acid, don't ever put something made of iron into the acid. The acid will have dissolved some copper from the silver and iron displaces that and copper-plates the silver. Result: salmon pink silver!

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Useful alloys include bronze, brass, cupronickel, duralumin, German silver, gunmetal, pewter, solder, steel, and stainless steel.

 

[EesomeBeastie]

Silver solder comes in grades of increasing melting point: extra easy, easy, medium, hard, enamelling. If making two joints close together, use a softer grade (lower melting point) for the second joint so that it melts without re-melting the first joint.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Duralumin is an alloy of aluminium that contains copper, manganese, magnesium, iron, and silicon and is resistant to corrosion by acids and sea water.

Well I'd never heard of it until now

 

[EesomeBeastie]

The alchemical symbol for copper is the same as the female symbol, which also denotes the planet Venus and the goddess too.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Because Copper is one of the oldest metals used by humans, it has played an important role in mythology. Its primary use has been as a specified metal in rituals, but it has also represented the Greek God Venus and to the Greeks, it could protect against evil and attract love.

 

[fire_breeze]

Goldwasser (English: Goldwater) is a traditional herbal liqueur produced in Gdańsk, Poland, and Schwabach, Germany, and contains flakes of gold leaf. There are also some expensive (~$1000) cocktails which contain flakes of gold leaf. However, since metallic gold is inert to all body chemistry, it adds no taste nor has it any other nutritional effect and leaves the body unaltered

 

[EesomeBeastie]

Gold, if used in food in the EU, has food additive number E175.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Goldwasser (English: Goldwater) is a traditional herbal liqueur produced in Gdańsk, Poland, and Schwabach, Germany, and contains flakes of gold leaf. There are also some expensive (~$1000) cocktails which contain flakes of gold leaf. However, since metallic gold is inert to all body chemistry, it adds no taste nor has it any other nutritional effect and leaves the body unaltered

But by golly your shit is worth its weight

 

[fire_breeze]

But by golly your shit is worth its weight

*snort*

 

[EesomeBeastie]

Goldwasser (English: Goldwater) is a traditional herbal liqueur produced in Gdańsk, Poland, and Schwabach, Germany, and contains flakes of gold leaf. There are also some expensive (~$1000) cocktails which contain flakes of gold leaf. However, since metallic gold is inert to all body chemistry, it adds no taste nor has it any other nutritional effect and leaves the body unaltered

But by golly your shit is worth its weight

(Looks down into the pan...)

"Ooh, shiney!"

 

[fire_breeze]

There are two basic types of white gold alloys: white gold mixed with nickel and white gold mixed with palladium. Nickel can be mixed with gold to create a white or gray color, but some people have an allergy to nickel. Palladium is another metal used to create white gold. Palladium is better but it costs more.

Copper creates pink and rose tones in gold.The more the copper, the deeper will be the effect.

Greenish shades are created by adding silver to gold.

Rose gold and Green gold can be 18-karat or 14-karat but the color is stronger in the 14-karat alloys.

Purple gold. It is referred as amethyst or violet gold. Purple gold is obtained by mixing gold and aluminium in a certain fixed ratio. Gold content is almost 79% and therefore it is qualified to be referred to as 18K gold.

Blue gold is made as an inter-metallic compound between gold and indium . The gold gets a bluish hue color with this process.

Black gold is created using a few techniques. Electro-deposition using black rhodium or ruthenium is the first technique. Controlled oxidation of Carat gold containing cobalt or chromium can also be made to create black gold. Amorphous carbon is also used some times, with the Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition process.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Where else can you get a thread that is full of gold shit and get ejukated at the same time?

 

[fire_breeze]

Where else can you get a thread that is full of gold shit and get ejukated at the same time?

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[Gaia_Lorraine]

Beyond the normal greed and racism that drove the Spanish Conquistadors to commit the acts they did in the new world, was the search for the legendary City of Gold, El Dorado. In the 1500s, they searched for the city, expecting to find it with each exploration, then changing its location to drive their men into new regions. By the middle of the 1500s they had pillaged and plundered all the way to Western New Mexico.

 

[EesomeBeastie]

Indium was first isolated as a pure element in 1864.

 

[fire_breeze]

The word "Gold" originates from the Old English Anglo-Saxon word 'geolo' meaning yellow. The Symbol Origin is from the Latin word 'aurum' meaning gold. Argentina was named for this precious metal.

 

[fire_breeze]

Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. In the book, "Shangri-La" is a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains.

The phrase "Shangri-La" most probably comes from the Tibetan ཞང་,"Shang - a district of Tsang, north of Tashilhunpo" + རི, "Mountain" = "Shang Mountain" + ལ, Mountain Pass, which suggests that the area is accessed to, or is named by, "Shang Mountain Pass". However, it may be that Hilton had heard of Shambhala - the Tibetan equivalent of Shangri-La, but could not remember its name.

 

[Sienna]

Stainless steel contains 10% chromium, therefore it is a "steel alloy". It does stain, but not as much as ordinary steel. It was first manufactured in 1915 by a Sheffield steel works, although it's existance had been around since 1821 as a sample batch produced by a french metallurgist Pierre Berthier.

Stainless steel is no doubt a twentieth century material, which required new technology in order to mass produce it due to the difficulties of making and casting steel alloys before 1915. It is also used in producing "jewelery" such as rings and pendants.

http://www.germes-online.com/direct/dbimage/50350577/Stainless_Steel_Ring.jpg

 

[wondermike]

Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM

 

[smotherman]

The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.

 

[smotherman]

40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.

 

[smotherman]

The toothbrush was invented in 1498.