A farmer in Xi'an accidentally dug up 11 catties of gold when he was repairing his house, and the gold magically "evaporated" 3 catties after being handed over to the museum!
An ordinary farmer in Xi'an starts building a house on his own land. At most, his imagination is to dig out a few stones or some ancient pottery shards, fate always likes to joke, this time he dug up a full 11 catties of gold!
The moment the shovel touched the nuggets, the glittering gold was so dazzling. The farmer may have thought it was rust or something like that at first, but he soon realized that he had actually dug up the treasure.
According to the law, such treasures should be handed over to the state, and the farmer did not have any greedy thoughts, so he immediately contacted the local museum and handed over the gold, which weighed 11 catties.
After receiving the gold, the museum cleaned and identified the precious gold nuggets. After completing these procedures, the weight of gold was reduced from 11 catties to 8 catties. A full 3 catties of gold were gone.
The museum's explanation for this change is as follows: "Gold contains moisture, which is cleaned and naturally evaporated, resulting in a natural weight reduction. This explanation immediately aroused everyone's doubts. It is generally accepted that gold does not absorb water like a sponge, and the weight of gold should be very stable.
Someone joked: "Gold can still evaporate, so should the gold jewelry we put at home also be carefully preserved so that they don't evaporate with it?" ”
Gold is a very stable metal, and it is not as susceptible to weight changes due to the presence of moisture as food. The weight change in this case is most likely not as simple as natural evaporation.
Things are getting more and more interesting, and some netizens started to do math problems to calculate how much the missing 3 catties of gold are worth. According to the market price of 500 yuan per gram of gold, 1,500 grams of gold is worth as much as 750,000 yuan. Such a large sum of money is just gone?
The reporter tried to contact the museum and the relevant experts, hoping to get more information from them. A museum staff member, who asked not to be named, said that the museum did carry out the necessary cleaning and conservation measures after receiving the gold,
But he is skeptical of the "evaporation of gold" explanation. He believes that the total weight may have been affected by the dislodgement of some tiny metal particles on the surface of the gold due to improper technical operation during the cleaning process.
This explanation sounds more scientific than "water evaporation", but it still does not completely dispel the doubt. After all, gold is seen as a very stable and safe investment item, and if even museums can't keep it safe, how can ordinary people trust gold trading in the market?
This is our "Great Disappearance of Gold". Doesn't that sound better than a detective novel? At first, I thought it was just a story of a local tyrant farmer accidentally digging up treasure, but who knew that it would turn a corner and turn into a bizarre case of missing gold.
From 11 catties to 8 catties, these 3 catties of gold disappeared mysteriously, and the excuse for the disappearance was "water evaporation" - this water is too valuable!
Now it seems that this is even more exciting than the theory that gold can evaporate. Whether it is gold fans or ordinary people who eat melons, everyone is watching this suspense drama and waiting to see the final mystery revealed. Is it an operational error, a technical problem, or is there really some hidden insider? It seems that only time will be left to solve this mystery.