Irish Wedding News
12/06/2012
Georg Steinhauser, a chemist at Vienna University of Technology, conducted the Quantification of the Abrasive Wear of a Gold Wedding Ring study.
He got married and a week later weighed his wedding ring, he then continued to do the same every week over the next year. The research found an average loss of 0.12mg a week.
He then computed that every year, the city of Vienna, with slightly more than 300,000 married couples, suffers an aggregate loss from its rings of about 2.2kg of 18-carat gold, worth around €35,000.
He said "Due to abrasion of metal particles, human fingers wearing gold rings leave a trace of gold almost everywhere."
(GK)
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Wearing A Gold Wedding Bands Leaves Traces 'Almost Everywhere'
A study has investigated how a gold wedding band scatters the precious metal with every scrape against the marital skin.Georg Steinhauser, a chemist at Vienna University of Technology, conducted the Quantification of the Abrasive Wear of a Gold Wedding Ring study.
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He got married and a week later weighed his wedding ring, he then continued to do the same every week over the next year. The research found an average loss of 0.12mg a week.
He then computed that every year, the city of Vienna, with slightly more than 300,000 married couples, suffers an aggregate loss from its rings of about 2.2kg of 18-carat gold, worth around €35,000.
He said "Due to abrasion of metal particles, human fingers wearing gold rings leave a trace of gold almost everywhere."
(GK)
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