Continued+Gold

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__**History on Gold:**__ Gold is a very well known solid. But, what i think is very interesting about gold is, the history on it. A long, long time ago a normal little boy was taking a walk by the creek and found a "shinny yellow nugget." Gold is also known to be the first metal known to humans. Almost everyone loves the way gold shines, it has natrual beauty. Everyone that has ever found gold was impressed by it. Gold is the easiest metal to work but it does not mix with many chemicals. **__Uses of Gold:__** Gold is used for many things. Such as, wedding rings, arts and crafts for gilding, dental fillings, coins, decreative items, electrical connectors, printed circut boards, and even for treating cancer. __**Compounds containing Gold:**__ Many compounds contain Gold. For example, halides, oxides, sulfides, hydrides, complexes, lattice energies, and reduction potenials. __**How Gold got its name:**__ Gold got its name from the latin work aurum which means shinning dawn, and atomic number is the first two letters of aurum, thus Au. **__ Iteresting Facts: __** Gold is very interesting. It is high valued. Gold is also very difficult to destroy. Another fact about gold is that it is mined. Gold is found in the ocean about a hundred tons but no one has yet found a sucsessful method to extract it from the ocean. United States has the most Gold reserves in the world. One simple little American Buffalo coin values 1770.16 dollars! The amount of gold mined is only enough to fill 60 tractor trailers. Around 70 percent of the gold found yearly is made into jewlery. 7,055 sheets of gold is no thicker then a dime!


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