2019-11-02 at 4:38 PM UTC
It's interesting watching Oak Island where they find something like a lead cross that by taking it to a lab, this lab uses a laser which in seconds can say it's lead ( as expected) but where the location of the lead came from. Yet unlike soil where I can see you can determine soil samples by what's decayed in clay or specific combinations of different rock in specific percentage of combinations is specific to a location of the world; from watching similar stories yet lead is lead and gold is gold. How can you determine where on earth it comes from?
2019-11-02 at 4:43 PM UTC
Since the use of lasers evaluating metal, I'm sure they have a global shared data bank that can spit up a very accurate location of raw ore n such but how do you determine refined down to near pure metal to its exact location if all impuritance is melted out.
2019-11-02 at 5:02 PM UTC
Isotopic Standard Analisis/Basics/Standards to populate around/
Oddly enough I'm watching the next episode and there going through the sequence and conducting of how they break it down.. So it's not so fluid.
We're still not that advance it seems.
2019-11-02 at 5:20 PM UTC
Isotopic Standard Analisis/Basics/Standards to populate around/Galina
And now they explain. Lead comes in clusters of metal it's including silver as well as semi-precious stones and nano partica of mixed ore in combinations can pinpoint where on earth it came from. An earthly thumbprint of sort.
Amazing.
2019-11-02 at 5:43 PM UTC
Radioactive decay can tell you a lot, as different isotopes emit particles/rays of different energies when they decay, and that can be measured.
