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COIN WEIGHS .3281 OUNCES OF PURE GOLD
Interesting facts about Gold.
1. The first metal that was ever processed by the ancient people is most likely to be the Gold. The archaeologist first discovered it in Bulgaria which was thought to be the age of gold jewelry dates back to 4000 BC. As a result, Age of gold come forth overlapping with the Stone Age.
2. In the 700 BC, the Italian dentists used to fit fake tooth with gold wire. Since the beginning of 1600 BC, filling the tooth cavity with gold was recommended.
3. Aztec uses the word "teocuitlatl" for gold that indicates "golds shit".
4. The precious metal is highly ductile and malleable. With moulding, a 1 ounce of gold can easily be turned into 5 millionths inches thicker semi transparent gold and/or could also be expanded to 50 miles of length & 5 microns in diameter, similar to 1/10 of the diameter of a hair.
5. One characteristics of gold is that it is difficult to destroy. From the past to the present, people say that "Gold has its own price". As a result, we can reuse them. Today 85% of all the gold found in the earlier times is still in use.
6. Outside the U.S. lunar module, "Apollo" was covered with gold foil to protect astronauts from radiation. Even today, to protect the astronaut's eyes from bright light their helmet is covered with thin layer if gold.
7. Gold refining methods destroy the environment to some extent. Gold Mine will cause a lot of cyanide in the drainage system, and discharge nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides in the atmosphere.
8. The U.S. ranks the 1st position in the gold reserve competition in the world. Nevertheless, if gold ornaments are also counted than India will take the top position. 20% of the world's gold is used for decoration. It was also used Indian Saris.
9. The greatest focus for gold on the surface of the earth is in the ocean, it is anticipated to be more than 100 million tons. Sadly, no has ever discovered an efficient way to collect gold from the ocean so far.
10. The comparison of gold reserve in earth and in space is insignificant. According to the information sent by the NEAR airship in 1999, a planet named "Eros" has more than the sum of total amount of gold ever mined on the earth. Unfortunately, we are unaware of the technology to extract gold from space.