What actual use is gold?

Asked By: Tummytocker 51-55, F 9 months ago

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Posted by 330GTC Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:40PM

Madam, you need something to hold your diamonds

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Reply by Tummytocker Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:44PM

But what actual use does wearing a diamond ring have?
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Reply by 330GTC Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:46PM

How can you ask that when diamonds are, in fact, a girl's best friend? Does not wearing them make you feel good?
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Posted by bunnyhound Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:46PM

its a good conductor, they make circuit boards for some things with it, a good reflector, its totally inert (it doesnt react with any known element) old phones had gold in them for some reason i am not sure of. it has a few good uses.

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Posted by DozerDan Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:46PM

Besides for being pretty, gold would have a wide variety of uses if it weren't so rare. Gold is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. It doesn't rust or tarnish. It would be good for many uses from cooking to manufacturing. Even at the current price gold is used to plate contacts on electronics to ensure good and not corroded contact.

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Posted by Wanderartist Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:43PM

It is a good electrical conductor all other practical uses are nominal.

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Posted by aycha Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:44PM

competition on it!

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Posted by ChipmunkErnie Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:43PM

It's decorative and has a few manufacturing uses. Oh, and in times of famine you can trade a pound of it for two potatoes if you can find an optimistic farmer

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Reply by Tummytocker Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:46PM

But what actual use is it? What would the farmer use it for? Just swapping for something else that has a use?
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Reply by ChipmunkErnie Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:47PM

He'd be optimistic and hope for better times when people weren't starving and wanted pretty things again
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Posted by guardsvan Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:42PM

It was once used in food

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Reply by Tummytocker Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:46PM

Like what?
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Reply by guardsvan Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:58PM

very thin foils of pure gold used to be placed on very hot food. They melt away into the food which people ( rich) used to eat. This was a practice said to prevailed in Persia. Pure gold is more like a ball of wax. One can shape it with fingers. Only when it is alloyed with copper, that firmness occurs.
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Posted by rainbowbrat09 Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:42PM

It's extremely strong, is used in certain car parts, in certain electrical equipment, and is used by modern day & ancient pagans to symbolise the sun.

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Reply by Tummytocker Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:47PM

I thought pure gold was soft and that was the reason why it was mixed with other metals, i.e. the higher the carat, the purer (and weaker) the gold.
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Reply by rainbowbrat09 Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:57PM

Sorry, I had it confused with silver I think.
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Posted by Liar2013 Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:42PM

Gold is something that you can't find in your Body. Because, It's not even found in Organic food. We have Zinc, Magnesium, Iron and so on. It's a powerful metal to keep you young.

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Reply by Tummytocker Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:47PM

Do you eat it?
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Reply by Liar2013 Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:49PM

Well, Yes.. It's a prime ingredients of our Medicines..
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Posted by floatingintheocean Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:41PM

I know! I asked myself the same question not so long ago, I can't believe they made such a fuss about it in the past.

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Reply by Tummytocker Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:49PM

When you really think about it, people's preoccupation with it is a very odd thing. I wonder if we were never told it was 'precious', we would be interested in it at all.
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Posted by PhazonMario Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:41PM

to make something for sound with because sound can travel through gold very nicely but other then that idk because its to soft for much of anything

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Reply by Tummytocker Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:50PM

Sound can travel through gold? Surely its too dense....
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Posted by Idonwannadie Sep 5th, 2012 at 2:40PM

Currency, jewellery and it is essential in chips. The type that make your phone and computer run.

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