I think the unit of measure you are after is microns...
2010/4/6 Käthe Barrows <[email protected]> > > 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 > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
