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From: Noel
Date: Mon May 30 21:05:19 2005
 
     
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>     Get a magnet-- if your metal is attracted, there is iron or
>     stainless steel there 

    I have an anecdote. I don't know what it means-- but it happened. 

    I melted some casting buttons and poured them into water to make
    shot. The resulting bits looked oxidized, so I had the brilliant
    idea of throwing them into the tumbler. I figured I could just pick
    up the steel shot with a magnet and leave the silver. It worked, but
    took for-e-ver!! Anyway, a few of the pieces of silver stuck to the
    magnet! I removed any that did, but there is no apparent way the
    silver could have gotten contaminated with iron or nickel or
    anything else. I have no idea why this occurred. 

--Noel

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