fluorescent bulbs?

[big red 211]

I'm guessing that I came up with nothing on here when I searched that the tube bulbs don't have any gold in them. But since the connector ends have a yellow colored metal on them (and a big building close to me goes though a lot of them) I figured I'd ask anyway. Are the connecting pins gold plated?

 

[Irons]

I'm guessing that I came up with nothing on here when I searched that the tube bulbs don't have any gold in them. But since the connector ends have a yellow colored metal on them (and a big building close to me goes though a lot of them) I figured I'd ask anyway. Are the connecting pins gold plated?

Beware, they contain Mercury vapor.

 

[samuel-a]

most likely brass

if you want to be sure, throw a few in HCL for a few days, if you see gold foils, then it's plated.

 

[Anonymous]

They are brass, no gold in the bulbs.

Jim

 

[Chumbawamba]

If there was any gold on fluorescent tubes then we would be chasing after some other element instead (and this place wouldn't be called the Gold Refining Forum).