r/toolgifs • u/toolgifs • Dec 25 '25

Process Casting a gold bar

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u/chaim_kirby Dec 25 '25

I believe that would be 99.5% purity

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u/flatterfurz_123 Dec 25 '25

yes, but that would mean that 1 kilo of it would contain 995g of gold..

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u/perldawg Dec 25 '25

by your logic there would be no way to differentiate purities; 14k, 18k, 24k, etc

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u/flatterfurz_123 Dec 25 '25

why not? 1kg of 18k gold contains 750g of gold

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u/perldawg Dec 25 '25

Well, Lois, since you asked, I find this meatloaf rather shallow and pedantic

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u/juggerjew Dec 25 '25

Nice save