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  • There is so little of it (the total volume of gold in the world could be put inside a cube a little more than 20 meters on a side (about the volume of an Olympic swimming pool).
  • Gold does not tarnish (rust- oxidize)
  • Very few acids dissolve gold, it will last almost forever
  • It is yellow (the only other metal element that is not whitish is copper)
  • It has a very high density
  • It had exceptional electric properties
  • It is very malleable, in fact you can make sheets of gold so thin (close to just one atom!) you can see the sun through them!
  • It can be made hard like steels by alloying with a few percent iridium
  • People have always considered gold to be attractive
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