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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 266678, member: 54"]You've really got to be skeptical regarding the "how to" metal testing articles on the web. The conductivity one linked above probably wasn't written by a scientist who understood the topic, but by an advertising copywriter, based on my experience with other similar issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's an example pulled from "silver dot com" site. If you follow the written steps and cartoon pictures, unless I misread something, the second weight number you get will be zero, because that site's instructions are either just wrong or very-poorly written. If you have experience determining specific gravity, read carefully through their four steps and see if you agree.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://springfieldarsenal.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/img_0079.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 266678, member: 54"]You've really got to be skeptical regarding the "how to" metal testing articles on the web. The conductivity one linked above probably wasn't written by a scientist who understood the topic, but by an advertising copywriter, based on my experience with other similar issues. Here's an example pulled from "silver dot com" site. If you follow the written steps and cartoon pictures, unless I misread something, the second weight number you get will be zero, because that site's instructions are either just wrong or very-poorly written. If you have experience determining specific gravity, read carefully through their four steps and see if you agree. [IMG]https://springfieldarsenal.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/img_0079.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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