15 facts about gold please help me?

Question

well im at school right now and i cant be screwed thinking up more facts about gold so someone give me some!!!

Answer 1

*Gold is used as jewelry from time immemorial.

*It was used in ancient civilizations in almost all the countries.

*It was always used to adorn the kings and queens and to decorate their palaces.

*Gold comes in pink, green, purple, blue, white and black color.

*White Gold is actually a gold alloy that appears white.

*We get gold in several karats – 24, 18, 14, 10 etc.

*Gold has doubled in value over the past 5 years to $800/oz.

   * It has been estimated that, worldwide, the total amount of gold ever mined is 152,000 metric tons, only enough to fill 60 tractor trailers. In comparison, each year 907 million metric tons of iron are produced worldwide. This is equivalent to 6,000 times the total gold produced throughout history.

*All the gold that has ever been refined throughout history could be placed in a cube measuring 65.5 feet (20 meters) on a side.

*More than 90 percent of all gold ever used has been mined since 1848, when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, California, sparking the greatest gold rush of all time.

*Gold nuggets are solid lumps of gold. Nuggets are rare, making up less than 2 percent of all native gold ever mined.

*Only one out of a billion atoms of rock in Earth's crust are gold. (If expressed by weight abundance, it is five parts per billion, but by numbers of atoms it is about one atom of gold per billion.)

*Oceans are the greatest single reservoir of gold at Earth's surface, containing approximately eight times the total quantity of gold mined to date. However, the current cost of extracting it is more than the gold is worth.

*Gold is so malleable that a single ounce of it (about the size of a quarter) can be beaten into a thin continuous sheet measuring roughly 100 square feet. That means it would take 576 ounces (or just 36 pounds) of gold to completely cover a football field, or a whopping 367,211 ounces (or about 11 tons) of gold to completely blanket all of Central Park.

*One ounce of gold can be stretched into a thin wire measuring only five microns, or five millionths of a meter, thick, that would reach in a straight line from midtown Manhattan across Long Island Sound to Bridgeport, Connecticut—a distance of 80 kilometers or 50 miles.

*Nearly 40 percent of all gold ever mined was recovered from South African rocks.

*Gold leaf may be only 0.18 microns (seven millionths of an inch) thick; a stack of 7,055 sheets would be no thicker than a dime.

*The visors of astronauts' space helmets receive a coating of gold so thin (0.00005 millimeters, or 0.000002 inches) that it is partially transparent. The astronauts can see through it, but even this thin layer reduces glare and heat from sunlight.

*Most gold—78 percent of the yearly gold supply—is made into jewelry. Other industries, mostly electronics, medical, and dental, require about 12 percent. The remaining 10 percent of the yearly gold supply is used in financial transactions.

Answer 2

gold rhymes with mold

Answer 3

gold is extremely malleable (able to be beaten into shape)

gold is highly unreactive

gold chemical symbol is Au

highly-sought metal

Answer 4

All ancient civilizations ,that we ever heard about were mining gold .

The Chinese,Babylonians ,Egyptians ,Central and south Americans,In Africa ,

And many others we do not know about ,such as an ancient civilization in the amazon basin on the Colombian side ,that were mining gold 150.000 years ago

Ancient Sumerian texts say that we were genetically engineered as slaves for the Anunaki from primates and with their own genes ,also to mine gold for them .

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All these civilizations had one thing in common ,huge indigenous populations with a white superior leadership

Millions of tons of gold must have been mined altogether in the history of the planet

where is it all now

Only a few hundred tons can be accounted for on the whole planet??????

Gold is a super conductor for electricity ,does not corrode or rust or deteriorate with time.

they say space age technology uses it

the Aliens captured at area 51 which was later professed to be a hoax ,but many believe this was a cover up ,

Had arm bracelets of gold with gold pins going deep into their arms, as if together with the body it made some sort of machine

that it is also ornamental is something on top.

Answer 5

What an excellent argument for keeping digital messaging equipment out of the hands of students, especially during school hours.  Your school has a library, written with words on paper.  Your answers are there.  Start with the encyclopedia and chase references from there.  

It's always fascinating to watch students like this encounter their first real college courses.