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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 321076, member: 36"]You should be able to order gold acids and a testing stone on Ebay. They're not horribly expensive and can be useful. I use the 18k acid to test for silver fairly often, since silver acid goes bad quickly. Scratch the questioned silver item on the stone. If it comes up reddish, it's not silver. Hit the metal streak with a little acid. If it's silver the metal will turn white and curdle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 321076, member: 36"]You should be able to order gold acids and a testing stone on Ebay. They're not horribly expensive and can be useful. I use the 18k acid to test for silver fairly often, since silver acid goes bad quickly. Scratch the questioned silver item on the stone. If it comes up reddish, it's not silver. Hit the metal streak with a little acid. If it's silver the metal will turn white and curdle.[/QUOTE]
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