A surprise gift will be sent to the first 5 people who correctly identify the material that each cube shown in the photo is made of. Each cube is approximately 1 inch square. One of the cubes is nearly twice as heavy as the other (around 1.9 times according to my scale).
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I was going to try narrowing down based on various things like toxicity or their state at, or near room temperature.
But you already gave answers which made that largely unnecessary.
As you have already in a reply confirmed that the right-hand cube is Silver. that quickly narrows down to those around 1.9 times lighter, or heavier.
There is nothing low enough in density there, or even in my opinion near enough to make Silver the heavier metal there.
Not without a fair amount of error on your scales, or… See More
a significant impurity in either cube.
So going with Silver being the less dense, the lighter metal.
Gold, as you already excluded is the nearest to the 1.9x heavier.
The next nearest to that 1.9x figure, is I think Tungsten.
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Well it says Troy Silver - however... according to tradition the ONLY metal measured in Troy Ounces is gold. (Which is why the trick question of "What weighs more... An ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers?" works - as Troy ounces are closer to 1.2 standard oz.
I'd go with Silver and Gold.
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