Changing Reducing Agents in an Assay    1. I am in need of help
answering a question. I am an environmental geologist faced with
the need to comment on techniques for gold assaying. Such
questions are best left to mineralogists. My question: can
changing the type of reducing agent in a gold assay test from
flour to argol make a difference in the resulting fusion and
final analysis for gold?   2. jcsd   3. Borek      Staff: Mentor
Disclaimer: I know nothing about assaying gold in particular.
What I do know, is that small changes to any analytical recipe
can have unexpected side effects, so you would need at least
some preliminary tests done on a known samples to check if the
results from both methods are comparable.  Have something to
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