> Gold leaf is a lot thicker than 2 molecules. I meant atoms, because it's an element. But, looking it up just now, the stuff's really thin, like no more than a few atoms thick. I read once that the minimum was two, and that the ancient Romans could get down to four. Back then it was made by hammering gold between sheets of leather many times. The rest of what you said agrees with what I'd heard.
> Not sure what you mean by plating...in my experience making jewelry that's a > chemical > process that requires an existing metal substrate to receive the plating AND > submersion in a chemical bath that contains the gold. Electro-plating, just like you say here. -- Carolyn Kayta Barrows -- “The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William Gibson -- _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
