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@ifra772 Floaties. Pineapple juice (bromelain?) daily for a month or three is supposed to get rid of them. Seems to have worked for me.

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@Viora_Tech_Ai Cant allow printing if the yellow ink is empty… the pages wouldnt have all the printer tracking dots!

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@imPenny2x The unresolved issue is getting “there” from “here”. If you do the math, the first few weeks of that doubling plan/compound growth evolution sucks if you arent already ahead of the game. Good result but pretty terribad path otherwise, very much an ends justifying means dilemma.

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@20th_Centurygal https://t.co/ULdfgTuSwI

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@IGN Did anyone else notice they said that the video would not be uploaded, but didnt mention if the data from said video would be? Uploading the biometrics seems to be the likely, and very valuable, product they obtain from this?

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@minchoi So, now someone needs to set up a framework to convert (electronic format) books into full length videos. With stylistic theme. LOTR done matrix style? Yes please.

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@profstonge Question, isnt the actual threshold 51.1 days? Even if congress passes a bill, the prez has 10 days to sign before it automagically gies into effect, right?

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@Nevski12400 @interesting_aIl Per llm: Au dissolved in an iodine–iodide solution can be recovered by lowering the pH, but does not necessarily require a conventional reducing agent. The process depends on shifting chemical equilibria in the complex ions rather than causing direct reduction by electron donors.

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@Nevski12400 @interesting_aIl Whups, lower the pH not raise :). AAA!

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@Nevski12400 @interesting_aIl To recover gold from (physical) dissolution with mercury, you heat it. Similarily, to recover it from dissolution in iodine, you raise the pH. The gold is always there.

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@Nevski12400 @interesting_aIl Just a strong acid (ph <2 iirc)

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@Nevski12400 @interesting_aIl The gold is reduced to Au(0) by lowering of the pH of the iodine/iodide solution, and gold as an element is always present. The different oxidation states have no bearing on the element, its chemisry not nuclear physics or alchemy. :). A fun discussion by the way, thanks!

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@Nevski12400 @interesting_aIl Actually, no reducing agent is needed for recovering metalic Au from dissolution in an iodine aolution, the low ph destabilizes the tetraiodoaurate complex (yes, i had to look that up, its been literally decades since i worked with that stuff). Engineer here, not a chemist :)

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@Nevski12400 @interesting_aIl In the iodine complex case, your sugar water analogy breaks down (since the gold in that solution is NOT oxidized and is directly recoverable by increasing pH). Whether oxidative or physical, the gold is dissolved, but IS still there (no alchemy!)

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@GoldIRAChannel @Nevski12400 @interesting_aIl Now days, most non-specialty chips have plastic packaging, due to cost, and perhaps the fact that the ceramics used are extremely difficult to purify of things like thorium and such, low level radioactive elements that cause unacceptable levels of single event upsets.

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@GoldIRAChannel @Nevski12400 @interesting_aIl To attach the die (chip) to the ceramic package, a thin gold alloy solder preform is placed under the die, and then heated (and scrubbed a bit) to form the eutectic die attachment. Very strong and electrically conductive.

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@Nevski12400 @interesting_aIl Both are dissolutions, physical or oxidative then, which was the original point I think?

Side note, gold also forms a neat eutectic alloy with silicon, if moderately heated (~370C). Also a silvery grey color.

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@Nevski12400 @interesting_aIl Gold forms an amalgam with mercury, not dissolution, right?