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Default Melting Dental Gold


"woodworker88" The only way to be 100% sure of the chemical composition
would be to
have it professionally assayed. (clip)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Splain to him that it is not a jewelry quality alloy, and offer him a
choice--either buy some other gold, or play with this at his risk. What can
you both lose? You could melt this down and make a simple casting, just to
see how it turns out. It's not going to disappear, and will probably be
more attractive (less disgusting) even if it doesn't work out for the knife.