Michael Foster wrote: > > I don't how others have done this, but here's what I did some years back. > I used spectroscopic grade carbon rods, so virtually no chance of > contamination. An arc was struck between the rods at 35VDC, don't know > what the current was, but the rods were held by hand and rubbed against each > other until a significant amount of "slag" was collected below them in a > ceramic crucible. > > A strong magnet was used to separate the resulting magnetic particles. Some of > these particles were pounded with a hammer to see if they were malleable, and > in fact they flattened out into shiny little disks. In other words, they're > metal. > > The rest of the particles were dissolved in HCl and then given a ferricyanide > test for iron. You get that beautiful blue color. What else do you want?
Did you find any gold? ;-) Harry
