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Date of sale Seller Buyer Auction house Refs $24,100,000 $17,400,000 Red Revenue block of four and sheet of 25 5-candarin Large Dragon stamps Qing China: 1878 (Large Dragons) 1897 (Red Revenues) Unknown (Large Dragons) 1 known (Red Revenues block of four) 32 known (Individual Red Revenues) 2009: Lam Manyin Ding Jingsong Unknown [3] $12,600,000 ...
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[1] [2] Foils are most easily made with malleable metal, such as aluminium, copper, [3] tin, and gold. Foils usually bend under their own weight and can be torn easily. [ 2 ] For example, aluminium foil is usually about 1 ⁄ 1000 inch (0.025 mm), whereas gold (more malleable than aluminium) can be made into foil only a few atoms thick, called ...
A tin foil hat is a hat made from one or more sheets of tin foil or aluminium foil, or a piece of conventional headgear lined with foil, often worn in the belief or hope that it shields the brain from threats such as electromagnetic fields, mind control, and mind reading.
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Tin foil, also spelled tinfoil, is a thin foil made of tin. Tin foil was superseded after World War II by cheaper and more durable [ 1 ] aluminium foil , which is still referred to as "tin foil" in many regions (an example of a misnomer ).
Foil stamping, a printmaking technique; Foil (fencing), one of the three weapons used in modern fencing; Foil (fiction), a subsidiary character who emphasizes the traits of a main character Comedic or comic foil, the straight man in a comedy double act "Foil" (song), "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of Lorde's song "Royals"
Microscopic close-up of aluminium foil on the back of an intumescent rubber strip. Aluminium foil has a thickness less than 0.2 mm (7.9 mils); thinner gauges down to 6 μm (0.24 mils) are also commonly used. [8] Standard household foil is typically 0.016 mm (0.63 mils) thick, and heavy-duty household foil is typically 0.024 mm (0.94 mils).