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« Reply #20 on: December 10, 2015, 02:04:24 pm »

Dear Giovanni,
I am sending the bottle to a mineralogy expert and I will tell you the results.
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« Reply #21 on: December 10, 2015, 05:05:56 pm »

Dear Giovanni,
I am sending the bottle to a mineralogy expert and I will tell you the results.
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Dear Niccolò,

The test is non-invasive to the bottle, yet test result is guaranteed.

Is your bottle translucent?

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« Reply #22 on: December 10, 2015, 06:55:12 pm »

Can bottles be carbon tested to date ? Not stone bottles of course, but maybe glass ?
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« Reply #23 on: December 10, 2015, 07:41:13 pm »

Can bottles be carbon tested to date ? Not stone bottles of course, but maybe glass ?

I thought carbon testing left a small pile of ash in place of the original specimen. Have they invented a non-destructive test?
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« Reply #24 on: December 11, 2015, 02:57:38 am »

Dear YT,
yes the bottle is translucent (and has a reddish coloring), but only at the foot, which is the thinnest part.
I will let you know...
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« Reply #25 on: December 11, 2015, 02:18:09 pm »

Dear Niccolò,
I would put my hand in the fire that your bottle is glass, if you had not said that you have scratched it by means of a steel pin. Unless it is a very hard steel and the glass is in the lower edge of glass hardness range.
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« Reply #26 on: December 11, 2015, 10:53:40 pm »

Dear Niccolò,

This is a Yellow Serpentine for a better understanding.

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« Reply #27 on: December 12, 2015, 08:12:08 am »

Thank you YT for this marvelous example in yellow serpentine... my bottle is not so transucent and walls are very thick.

Dear Giovanni, now I am even more confused, although I think that you could be right: the strange reddish colouring of the bottle could be a proof for the "glass thesis"... But the strange fact is that I can easely scratch it with a simple needle. The only solution is a scientific analysis...
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