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2 results for “surface plasmon resonance” in History
History · 9 August 2026
The Hoard Problem: What Buried Gold Actually Tells Us
…in the trade of unprovenanced antiquities more broadly, is a laundering pattern: objects surface with vague or fabricated collecting histories, pass through several hands and jurisdictions, and arrive at auction with a provenance that begins conveniently in the mid-twentieth cen…
Marguerite Adler · 16 min read
History · 14 July 2026
The Gold Standard: How a Soft Yellow Metal Became Money
For roughly five thousand years, humanity kept returning to the same element to settle its debts. The story is less about greed than about the unusually boring chemistry of atomic number 79. · Gold's…
Marguerite Adler · 14 min read
