the Etruscans attached these tiny spheres using chemical diffusion, but the way they actually manufactured the spheres is just as insane. They didn’t have modern wire drawing machines or rolling mills. To get thousands of perfectly identical, tiny gold balls, an ancient jeweller would meticulously cut tiny, equal sized clippings of gold wire. They would pack those clippings in a clay crucible filled with powdered charcoal and put the whole thing into a fire. As the gold melted, the charcoal dust
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the Etruscans attached these tiny spheres using chemical diffusion, but the way they actually manufactured the spheres is just as insane. They didn’t have modern wire drawing machines or rolling mills. To get thousands of perfectly identical, tiny gold balls, an ancient jeweller would meticulously cut tiny, equal sized clippings of gold wire. They would pack those clippings in a clay crucible filled with powdered charcoal and put the whole thing into a fire. As the gold melted, the charcoal dust
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