Quote Originally Posted by Copper Head View Post
... Well I found a box of sulfuric acid & all sorts of low level electronic testing gauges ,I am not sure but i believe a spectrometer is use to detect or test gold and silver metals some how ?
According to this site ICP spectrometry is used to assay platinum metals, but that's a high-end type of spectrometer - you probably found a Bausch & Lomb Spec 20 or something similar - the kind they use in high school chem labs. It might be usable for metal assay but I highly doubt it.