From NPR, a tale of disolving two Nobel prizes:
Niels Bohr story
I think it would have been easier to electro-plate the gold onto a substrait, then plate silver over it. (after all mirrors in a physics lab are pretty innocuous), regardless it was a clever way to hide the gold.
I still prefer the "heavy water in the beer bottle" story though.
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Well, according to the story, the clock was ticking. Electroplating wouldn't have been nearly as fast as aqua regia. It's also less dangerous in a situation like that.
Electroplating speed is proportional to the current...
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