On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:08:23 -0800, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

> Travis McGee wrote:
> >
> > Carroll and her boyfriend ate 25 wings from a KFC in Kentucky, then
> > cleaned the bones with soap and water. She let them dry, then painted
> > the bones with a varnish, graphite conductive paint and coated them in
> > copper. The bones were then plated in 14-karat gold.
>
> That's not a stable plating. The gold diffuses
> into the copper, so the copper will show through
> after a few years. To be stable, you need a
> barrier layer between the copper and the gold.
> Nickel is usually used for the barrier layer.

I don't think it matters. They're be lost or broken sooner than that.

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