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To: Anthony Zack who wrote (6797)	7/20/1998 12:59:00 AM
From: Webster Groves	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

Pardon my intrusion; I'm new here. But on the other hand I wasn't born yesterday........ Who is David Hudson ? This may sound silly, but is he associated with GPGI ? If so, then that's all I need to know. If not, then (again) who is he ? Thanks, -wg P.S. Polyatomic I've heard of; but monatomic leaves me stumped if it means anything other than a single free atom of something. Helium is monatomic I believe; but does that mean it weighs less when it is there as opposed to when it ain't; or is it that it weighs less when it's not there ? But if it's not there, then where is it ? Boy, am I ever confused !

To: Anthony Zack who wrote (6797)	7/21/1998 2:23:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 14226

Tony, sorry for the delay, I have been extremely busy with "business meetings', "Funds Raising" and other mundane and less important affairs, and feel guilty neglecting my duties on this thread (VBG). This whole affair with "monoatomic" species is in the real of "black magic" not standard chemistry and physics. I have read a number of articles and conjectures on this subject, none of which made any "scientific sense". As far as I am concerned, these do not exists. In my own opinion, if all these DD ores are difficult to assay it is because the ores are "immature", namely, the gold (in one "mother ore") and the PGM (probably in a completely different "mother ore") never had the opportunity to come out of solution of their host rocks (and in this respect maybe you could call them "Monoatomic" since they are ionically distributed, for instance in a quartz (amorphous or crystalline) matrix. This of course, is nothing but another "comjecture" and it is not worse nor better than any other conjecture on the subject. The beauty with XRF analysis (as well as neutron activation) is that the results do not depend an iota on the chemical state (namely electron arrangements around the nuclei) of those element but only on the nuclei themselves. Zeev Zeev