Sep 10, 2007
When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck into aqua regia (a mixture of hydrochloric and nitric acids. Neither hydrochloric nor nitric acid can dissolve gold by itself) to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at th Niels Bohr Institute. It was subsequently ignored by the Nazis who thought the jar—one of perhaps hundreds on the shelving—contained common chemicals. After the war, de Hevesy returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The gold was returned to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation presented new medals to Laue and Franck.
-Wikipedia page on Aqua Regia
-Wikipedia page on Aqua Regia
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He's cool. Short. smoker. Married? Kids. umm.. yea i can't really describe him. I guess you'll never know!!
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