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It depends what you are relating it to. Real gold vs fools gold? Take a hammer, and bash the hell out of it, if it is not jewlery. If it is a nugget of real gold, it will smash flat. If fools gold, it will shatter into a million pieces. Also the sun test. If a piece of real gold is held in sunlight, it will be as brilliant as if a shadow is cast upon it. Other metals will dim, and become hard to see. (This works better, if the piece is small.

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