Solved cryptogram
A brick of gold you could just about lift with one hand weighs as much as a large dog.
Chemistry Facts, sourced to PubChem, National Library of Medicine.
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What it means
Gold is about nineteen times as dense as water, so a liter of it, roughly the size of a carton of milk, comes to some nineteen kilograms. The standard bar held in central banks is smaller than a housebrick and weighs around twelve and a half kilograms, which is why films showing somebody running away with an armful of them are being optimistic. Density was also the original test for a fake.
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- SourcePubChem, National Library of Medicine
- CollectionChemistry Facts
- Difficultyhard
- Length67 letters, 21 of them different
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