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ze=3D2>I=20
suspect you may be right about the coins melting but without know=
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of the melting "points" of the two alloys - it should be=20
qualified. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=3D890594113-02082004><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff si=
ze=3D2>Pure=20
Silver has a M Pt of 961.93 deg Celsius.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=3D890594113-02082004><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff=20
size=3D2>However, because it is an alloy Sterling Silver (5% copper) m=
elts=20
over a range starting at approx 760 deg Celsius.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=3D890594113-02082004><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff si=
ze=3D2>I=20
don't have this information in my head!...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=3D890594113-02082004><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff si=
ze=3D2>See <A=20
href=3D"http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/nov2001/1005200805.Ch.r.html">=
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/nov2001/1005200805.Ch.r.html</A></FONT=
></SPAN></DIV>
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size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=3D890594113-02082004><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff si=
ze=3D2>I am=20
sure someone out there will have the temperature at which bell metal is pou=
red=20
into moulds. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=3D890594113-02082004><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff si=
ze=3D2>That=20
should stop any arguments. Facts usually do!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=3D890594113-02082004><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff si=
ze=3D2>Hope=20
this helps</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=3D890594113-02082004><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff=20
size=3D2>Peter</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> David Bryant [mailto:david@b....=
uk]=20
<BR><B>Sent:</B> 02 August 2004 14:34<BR><B>To:</B>=20
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] R=
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Kirkoswald, Cumbria<BR><BR></DIV></FONT><TT>> On the lip of the bell a=
re=20
three old silver coins, much worn, which <BR>> have clearly been put i=
n the=20
mould before casting<BR><BR>Clearly bollocks. I've seen this type of stat=
ement=20
before. What they no doubt actually mean is that a coin was used to form =
an=20
impression in the mould, thus forming a facsimile of itself on the bell. =
Logic=20
dictates that the coins themselves couldn't have been put in the mould - =
when=20
the molten metal hit them, they too would melt!<BR><BR>David<BR><BR>--=20
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