Where To Find Silver ?

[oldtoothlessbassmaster]

what temp does a lighter burn at ?

bic lighter - 1,977 degrees Celsius or 3590.6 degrees Fahrenheit



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[eesakiwi]

[QUOTE=oldtoothlessbassmaster;115022]bic lighter - 1,977 degrees Celsius or 3590.6 degrees Fahrenheit

I pulled the plastic strip of wires out of a flat bed scanner today & bared out a single strand of silver looking metal. It also looked like Ali.
I melted it with a BIC lighter & it went red hot, then drooped as it melted.
Afterwards the metal seemed a little 'blacker', sorta like silver does when it gets tarnished.

So I tested doing that on some Ali from a AC condensor (tinsel type). It heated the tinsel, without changing its colour, then it melted.

In all? Great quick test. Results are not 100% until I actually test the metal for silver in the first place. But it looks promising....

[Bear]

I pulled the plastic strip of wires out of a flat bed scanner today & bared out a single strand of silver looking metal. It also looked like Ali.
I melted it with a BIC lighter & it went red hot, then drooped as it melted.
Afterwards the metal seemed a little 'blacker', sorta like silver does when it gets tarnished.

I did that same thing recently in a similar way, with a ribbon cable from 1982, thinking if any would be silver it was older ones, but those wires basically evaporated. I don't recall how long the lighter was under it, I wasn't timing, and the wires were extremely tiny, as in angel hair, but according to the temp specs stated in earlier posts, the lighter would pretty much melt any of it in time