What else do you not know about gold?

Gold is a noble and beautiful metal. Jewelry made from it, due to its strength and resistance to damage, remain with us for many years, and can also become a memory for future generations. While it may seem like we know almost everything about gold, there are a few more interesting facts that we might be able to surprise you with. Curious?

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Did you know that gold is edible?

Yes, as strange as it may sound, gold one can eat. Of course, we are not talking about eating gold jewelry, but it turns out that gold in scales, slices and in the form of dust is often used in the kitchen, especially for ornamentation desserts, cakes and drinks. For a long time (from about the XNUMXth century) they were also added to alcoholic beverages, for example, to the famous Goldwasser liqueur, which is produced in Gdansk.

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Gold is found in the human body

apparently gold content in the human body it is about 10 mg, and half of this amount is contained in our bones. The rest we can find in our blood.

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Olympic medals

It turns out that Olympic medals they are not actually gold. Today, his content in this award is a little more. 1%. The last time solid gold medals were awarded was at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912.

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Extraction

Most of the gold mined so far comes from one place in the world - from South Africa, more precisely the Witwatersrand mountain range. Interestingly, this is also an important mining basin not only for gold, but also for uranium.

Gold comes on all continents on Earth, and its largest deposits are ... at the bottom of the oceans! Apparently, there may be up to 10 billion tons of this precious metal. Also, there is gold. less often than diamonds. According to scientists, gold can also be found on other planets such as Mars, Mercury and Venus.

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gold alloy

What is it really gold alloy? An alloy is a metal material that is formed by melting and merging two or more metals. Through this process, it is possible to increase the hardness and strength of gold, and through the admixture of other metals, we can decide what color of gold we will get. This is how rose gold, white gold and even red gold are made! The amount of gold in the alloy is determined in karatach, where 1 carat is 1/24 of the gold content by weight of the alloy in question. Thus, the more carats, the purer the gold.

Plus, it's pure gold. softthat we can mold them with our hands, like plasticine, and 24 carat gold melts at 1063 or 1945 degrees Celsius.

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Gold bars

The heaviest gold bar produced to date weighed 250 kg and is in the Museum of Gold in Japan.

One of the other interesting facts about gold bars is that you can find ATMs in Dubai where we will withdraw gold bars instead of money.

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ювелирные изделия

Apparently, as much as 11% of all gold in the world belongs to ... housewives from india. That's more than the US, Germany, Switzerland and the International Monetary Fund combined. In addition, India has the highest demand for yellow goldup to 80% of jewelry is made from this type of gold. Hindus believe in the purifying power of gold, which also protects against evil.

Perhaps no one will be surprised by the fact that as much as 70% of the demand for gold comes from the jewelry industry.

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Gold, and therefore gold jewelry, in itself durability it is very safe and almost indestructible form of capitalwhat was, is and is likely to be acceptable at any time.

It turns out that gold is a more mysterious metal than it might seem. Do you know any other interesting facts about him?