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Scientists replicate medieval gold purification technique

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | May 21, 2019 | 6:47 am Education Gold 

Scientists at Northwestern University have experimentally replicated a medieval gold purification method employed by West Africans in the 10th and 11th centuries. The researchers followed a technique initially described in a 2014 paper by archaeologist Sam Nixon, in consultation with...

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