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TIL when Germany invaded Denmark in WWII, George de Hevesy used aqua regia to dissolve 2 golden nobel prize medals from Laue and Frank, to prevent nazis from conviscating them. After the war he precipitated the gold out of the acid and the nobel foundation recast the medals and gave them back.

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