Vintage Brass
How do you know if something is made of gold vs brass?
I have a bunch of vintage lamp parts. Some are ornate. Upon closer look I wondered if some may be gold vs brass. How can I test them?
Gold is a very heavy metal - much heavier than brass. Technically the density of gold is higher than that of brass.
You can check roughly for elimination purposes:
Get the mass of the object
Get the volume of the object. Either by measurenent or by determining how much water it displaces.
Calculate density Mass / volume.
Density of gold is 19.3g/cm³ and brass is approximately 8.5g/m³
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