Apparently there are companies out there who engineer otherwise inert particles, or mixes of particles, that fluoresce under specific wavelengths, for example Mobil might add the particles to their premium Mobile 1 synthetic motor oil product to find counterfeit products in certain markets. By opening a bottle of oil purchased off the shelf they can hit it with ~620nm && ~580nm and if it does not respond correctly, it is relatively easy to demonstrate that it is counterfeit and quickly get it removed from shelves. This can also be applied to crude oil and quietly tested at the refinery to verify it hasn't been diluted with similar product.
If I buy a bottle of plonk for $20 and it tastes as I except, I don't stress about what gamma rays it's emitting. I just reckon I got what I paid for. Of course, if I payed $1 million, and I dare not open it, I might stress quite a lot. But really, that's for other people not me. I sadly don't have a million bucks to spend on wine.
wine is one of those things that allow for indirect sampling of conditions at or about the vintage year. this may be more valuable than a vicarious, but high class swig of conspicuous consumption.
Pretty wild story. Reminded me of the story of salvaging a Roman trade vessel off the coast of Greece. Everyone carefully cataloged and managed the various amphorae of trade goods, and one of the divers made off with a quarter million dollars worth of lead keel weights. :-)
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 30.9 ms ] threadnot for counterfiet detection but for attribution in case of abuse.
Time to re-watch