Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]
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Doofus said:
How did somebody first discover that measuring OG would tell them alcohol content and how did they discover how to do it?
Bartholomew Sikes (died 1803) was an officer in the employ of HM Excise who in the late 18th century perfected a device by which the alcoholic content of a liquid can be measured. The success of the device caused his name to be immortalised in an Act of Parliament: Sikes' Hydrometer Act 1816, 56 Geo. III c. 140. From 1816 until 1980 the hydrometer was the standard used in the UK to measure the alcohol proof of spiritsHaving watched The Gold this week on the BBC, John Palmer was smelting down the stolen Brinks Mat gold, which was basically pure.
He was mixing in the odd coin and some low quality gold jewellery, etc, to change the makeup of the 'new' gold and disguise its origins.
How is the quality / composition of gold gauged or ascertained? If I wander into a gold trader with a lump of gold, how will he be able to tell what I'm offering him?
He was mixing in the odd coin and some low quality gold jewellery, etc, to change the makeup of the 'new' gold and disguise its origins.
How is the quality / composition of gold gauged or ascertained? If I wander into a gold trader with a lump of gold, how will he be able to tell what I'm offering him?
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