GOLD TESTING. Pure gold is very soft. To make it more useful it is hardened by alloying it with other metals. Pure (or fine) gold is 24 carat; 14 carat is 14/24 (58%) gold by weight, the balance an alloy metal. Test to distinguish gold from non-gold: 1  File a notch in the piece to be tested.2  Apply a drop from Bottle #1.o make it more useful it is hardened by alloying it with other metals. Pure (or fine) gold is 24 carat; 14 carat is 14/24 (58%) gold by weight, the balance an alloy metal. Test to distinguish gold from non-gold: 1  File a notch in the piece to be tested. 2  Apply a drop from Bottle #1.
Eva Braun met Hitler when she was a 17-year-old, convent-educated shop-girl working for Hitlerâs official photographer, and he was a 40âyear-old aspiring politician.
Hitler and his henchmen tried their hardest to keep Eva out of the spotlight, and forbade any picture of her to be published, because they were keen to project the idea that he was âmarried to Germanyâ. Yet Eva herself ensured the opposite for posterity.