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How do you determine whether or not the crown was pure gold or not?
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∙ 12y ago
you weigh its density and compare it with the density of gold, if both densities are same, then the crown is made of pure gold. if the density of the crown is lower than the density of gold, then the crown is made of materials that are cheaper or have a density that is less than gold, meaning that it is not made of pure gold.
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How do you determine pure gold from fake gold?
Pure gold will have a serial number.
How could you determine if a simple gold is pure?
compare the samples density with that of pure gold
How do you determine if a gold sample is pure?
step 1. well you can put it in water and measure the variance step 2. you should theoretically calculate the amount of water that will be raised and you can know whether it is pure or not
Is gold a pure element?
Gold is an element; a molecule of gold (Au) is the smallest amount of gold that you can have that is not dividable into smaller amounts of gold. Whether or not a sample of gold is pure depends on the presence or absence of alloys or impurities blended with the gold.
How can you tell if a crown is made of pure gold?
run a test on the element type or try to bite it Biting is not very successul.
What is Archimedes gold demur?
You may be referring to the story of how Archimedes was able to determine if a crown had been made of pure gold (or less-than-pure gold) by measuring how much water the crown and an equal weight of pure gold displaced.
If Archimedes had only been able to find a piece of pure gold with a mass one-half that of the crown how could he have determined whether the crown was pure gold?
Archimedes came across concept of density - that is MASS divided by VOLUME. For each substance this ratio is different but a CONSTANT for that substance. Thus the mass you are dealing with is irrelevant if the crown had the same ratio as the piece of pure gold then the crown was pure god, if it did not then the crown was not gold.
If Archimedes had only been able to find a piece of pure gold with a mass one half that of the crown how could he have determined whether the crown was pure gold?
Archimedes came across concept of density - that is MASS divided by VOLUME. For each substance this ratio is different but a CONSTANT for that substance. Thus the mass you are dealing with is irrelevant if the crown had the same ratio as the piece of pure gold then the crown was pure god, if it did not then the crown was not gold.
If Archimedes had only been able to find a piece of pure gold with a mass one - half that of the crown how could he have determined whether the crown was pure gold?
Archimedes came across concept of density - that is MASS divided by VOLUME. For each substance this ratio is different but a CONSTANT for that substance. Thus the mass you are dealing with is irrelevant if the crown had the same ratio as the piece of pure gold then the crown was pure god, if it did not then the crown was not gold.
Was Archimedes crown pure gold?
Yes Archimedes crown was pure gold. how they know this is that they weighed the dentisity of the crown.
How do you determine pure gold from fake gold?
Pure gold will have a serial number.
How does the acrchimedes crown story relate to matter?
The Archimedes story relates that Archimedes had been trying to determine if the King's crown was pure gold, without having to melt it down (destroying it) to see. Archimedes sat down in the tub and noted that the water rose in the tub, and that he realized that the volume of water displaced was equal to the volume of Archimedes himself. This gave him an insight into how to determine the volume of the crown; by submerging the crown in water and measuring how far the water rose, this would give him the volume of the crown. He could then weigh the crown and calculate the density of the crown, and determine that the crown was not pure gold.
How did Archimedes find out the crown wasnt gold?
By studying the displacement of water caused by pure gold and silver of the same mass, he proved that the gold crown was not of pure gold as claimed by the jeweller.
How could you determine if a simple gold is pure?
compare the samples density with that of pure gold
How do you determine if a gold sample is pure?
step 1. well you can put it in water and measure the variance step 2. you should theoretically calculate the amount of water that will be raised and you can know whether it is pure or not
How could you determine is a sample of gold is pure?
One way of determining if a sample of gold is pure, would be to compare the density with that of real gold.
How could you determine if a sample gold is pure?
One way of determining if a sample of gold is pure, would be to compare the density with that of real gold.
