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Can a bar of gold be a molecular compound?

Updated: 9/19/2023
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Deadkitty13

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No. Gold is an element and forms relatively few compounds, none of which are likely to be in a bar of gold. A pure gold bar is better described as a unitary solid held together by metallic bonds, in which the valence electrons are distributed throughout the bar in such a way that any two parts of the bar that have the same volume are likely to contain the same fraction of all of the valence electrons.

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