In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 10 May 2019 22:17:07 -0400: Hi, [snip] >The smelter is selling the output material by weight. If there was a huge >weight reduction of 25% over time due to the escape of CO from the output >material when that material was in inventory, then this weight reduction >would surely show up in the accounting records of the company.
If it's chemically bound, then it probably won't escape over time, but rather at the time of use. Granted the customer would likely find that they were paying a bit too much, but such losses are usually attributed to simple things like spillage. Besides, the anomalous material was only produced for a relatively short period, and would likely have been distributed and used along with other unaffected material at both ends of the supply chain. In short the anomaly is not likely to have been noticed, were it not for the weighing during production. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk local asymmetry = temporary success
