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I recently saw vodka in the supermarket with real gold leaf flakes in it. What caught my eye was that the gold flakes were distributed uniformly throughout the bottle. Gold is much denser than water, so why don鈥檛 they sink to the bottom?

Andrew Menadue, By email, no address supplied

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