Re: Temple Institute Announces: High Priest's Crown is Ready!

On Dec 10, 6:40 am, real-not-anti-spam-addr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (D.M.
Procida) wrote:
Giorgies E. Geshahnna <geshah...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Moses made gold soluble? Which concentrated acids did he have at his
disposal?

Concentrated acids will not make gold "soluble".

Really? I must have dreamt what I thought I knew about aqua regia then.

If you want to be so technical, no, aqua regia, a specific mixture of
two acids, hydrochloric and nitric, will not make gold soluble. What
it will do is oxidise the gold, destroying the metal and turn it into
soluble auric salts.

It was not actually a solution, but a suspension of gold particles

So your problem with my questioning the idea that Moses dissolved gold
is what, since you also appear to understand that he didn't?

My problem is that your mocking question is based upon the fact that
Yaacovachi used the wrong technical term when describing what the
Torah says. But you too are using the wrong technical terms.

And in future, be more careful and do your homework before deigning to
mock the ancients in general, and Jews of antiquity in especial.

It's not the ancients who were making silly claims...

You are right. It is God Himself, who writes in His Torah that Moses
ground up the gold calf, prepared an aqeous suspension, and made the
Israelites drink it. Silly claim for the Torah to make.

GEG
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