And then there was the guy with the Budweiser watch and gold nugget ring.

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Also found in his possession were a gold nugget belonging to the pope, a signed check made out to Pope Benedict XVI for 100, 000 euros and an original version of Virgil's Aeneid from 1581.

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If he's glass half-empty, he might be wearing real gold-nugget cufflinks.

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In this invisible world, tiny particles of gold melt at temperatures several hundred degrees lower than a large nugget, and copper, which is normally a good conductor of electricity, can become resistant in thin layers in the presence of a magnetic field.

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