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What is Archimedes gold demur?

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9y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

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.

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