Talk:Acid test

Part of gold?
shouldn't this article be part of the gold article? - Machtec (talk) 18:08, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * There is potential for a separate article here, methinks. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 03:50, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

Expert checking needed
This article was apparently created by somone who was more interested in the metaphorical usage of the term than the metallurgy/jewelry usage. It should be checked by someone with knowledge in the latter aspects. --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 12:59, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Done Jeepday (talk) 13:54, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

Must it be destructive?
There was a claim in the article that an "acid test" in the metaphorical sense must be "destructive" to the subject. However in the examples given the test is not destructive: the soap brands were not destroyed, and Internet browsers that fail the Acid-N tests are not destroyed either. In fact the acid test is hardly destructive in the literal sense either, as it is usually done with a minute amount of acid on a minute amount of the material (such as a streak on a touchstone) or in a non-essential part of the object (such as the reverse of a medal). All the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 16:53, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Restored the original sentence which claimed only that there was an 'original sense'. When I researched the current use of the phrase on the internet, it did not seem to me that most modern American use included the idea that the Acid test was destructive to imitations. The soap brand would clearly have been destroyed over thirty years if the soap didn't work: that is a clear sense of the claim. The Acid-N tests are not destructive.
 * I deleted that sentence again, before I read the above. I don't mind if you revert, but it is not clear to me that the metaphor ever referred to the "destructive" aspect of the test. I would rather think that it referred to the fact that the real acid test was "cheat-proof": absolutely no metal would pass it except real gold.  All the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 09:18, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Was decisive
Changed IS decisive back to WAS decisive. The ACID test IS NOT currently easy: it requires concentrated nitric acid, which is a restricted substance. Nor is it decisive: other tests are now used when the test must be decisive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.162.148 (talk) 03:38, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

"black stone"
Blackrock (geology)? --Jerome Potts (talk) 17:12, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

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Requested move 15 October 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 11:51, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

– The Acid test (gold) article is now about much more than just gold - it covers metallurgy, geology, and figurative uses. That article should be at the base name, and the disambiguation page moved to a (disambiguation) title, and cleaned up. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 10:42, 15 October 2023 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Acid test (gold) → Acid test
 * Acid test → Acid test (disambiguation)
 * Support per nom.--Ortizesp (talk) 23:55, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Rreagan007 (talk) 17:09, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:54, 17 October 2023 (UTC)