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	Gold (color) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Especially in sacral art in Christian churches, real gold (in form of gold leaf) was used for rendering gold in paintings, e.
		This is why in art use would usually be made of a metallic paint that glitters in an approximation of real gold; a solid color like that of the box displayed above does not aesthetically "read" as gold.
		Gold is a shade of the color "yellow" closest to that of gold metal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gold_(color) (260 words)

	Gold
		Gold was produced in the southern Appalachian region as early as 1792 and perhaps as early as 1775 in southern California.
		Gold was among the first metals to be mined because it commonly occurs in its native form, that is, not combined with other elements, because it is beautiful and imperishable, and because exquisite objects can be made from it.
		Gold particles in stream deposits are often concentrated on or near bedrock, because they move downward during high-water periods when the entire bed load of sand, gravel, and boulders is agitated and is moving downstream.
	pubs.usgs.gov /gip/prospect1/goldgip.html (2937 words)

	World Gold Council > discover > gold knowledge > frequently asked questions
		This is reflected in the similarities of the word gold in various languages: Gold (English), Gold(German), Guld (Danish), Gulden (Dutch), Goud (Afrikaans), Gull (Norwegian) and Kulta (Finnish).
		The word gold appears to be derived from the Indo-European root 'yellow', reflecting one of the most obvious properties of gold.
		JOIN US 1.What is Gold and why is its chemical symbol Au?
	www.gold.org /discover/knowledge/faqs (1117 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Special reports Thomas Gold
		Gold suggested that we might be seeing primeval methane, trapped during the formation of the planet, but continuously rising from the deep interior of the earth.
		Professor Thomas "Tommy" Gold, who has died aged 84, was the initiator, the pragmatist and the persuader among the trio of young Cambridge scientists who turned cosmology upside down in the 1950s by proposing their controversial and comforting "steady state" hypothesis of the universe.
		Gold emerged from the cold comfort of this extended wartime seminar aware of a host of new problems in astrophysics and cosmology and much better equipped to investigate them.
	www.guardian.co.uk /austria/article/0,2763,1246133,00.html (1957 words)

	Gold
		Gold, like other precious metals, is measured in troy weight; when alloyed with other metals, the term carat is used to express the amount of gold present, 24 carats being pure gold.
		Gold has 18 isotopes; 198Au, with a half-life of 2.7 days, is used for treating cancer and other diseases.
		A mixture of one part nitric acid with three of hydrochloric acid is called aqua regia (because it dissolved gold, the King of Metals).
	www.scescape.net /~woods/elements/gold.html (614 words)

	Gold: Gold mineral data from mindat.org mineralogy database
		Gold is found as usually as disseminated grains in Quartz veins with Pyrite and other sulphides, or as rounded grains, flakes or nuggets in placer deposits and in streams and rivers.
		Gold is used as a standard for international currency and is also widely used in jewelry, electronics (where its superb properties as a conductor help offset its tremendous cost), dentistry and in photographic processes.
		A native element and precious metal, Gold has long been prized for its beauty, resistance to chemical attack and workability.
	www.mindat.org /min-1720.html (505 words)

	GOLD
		Gold has been used as a standard treatment for rheumatoid arthritis since the 1960's, and is now becoming important in other areas of health and medicine such as surgery and lasers.
		Gold may also be found in small inclusions in pyrite or other sulfides, as well as quartz veins in low-grade metamorphic rocks, granitic rocks, and contact metamorphic rocks.
		It's composition is usually pure gold, but it may sometimes form alloys with silver, copper, or other metals.
	www.eas.slu.edu /People/Students/MPyle/mineralogy/Gold.html (705 words)

	ENIVA: Gold
		Gold is nontoxic, promotes a general feeling of well-being, supports the body’s natural defenses, and promotes vitality and longevity.* Gold may also have an antioxidant effect on free radicals, promoting the health of various tissues.*
		Gold is thought by researchers to have a chelation effect on free radicals, promoting the health of various tissues and structures in the body.*
		Measurement of gold treatment effect in clinical practice: evidence for effectiveness of intramuscular gold therapy.
	www.eniva.com /products/mfl_gold.html (430 words)

	Gem Hut - Gold Gemstones
		Gold is attractive, wears well and has been used in jewelry and for coins for millenia.
		Gold is also found as in inclusions in quartz, much like rutilated quartz or tourmalinated quartz.
		Gold purity is expressed in terms of karat (kt) value, and is a fraction of 24ths.
	www.gemhut.com /gold.htm (179 words)

	~ GOLD ~
		Early gold discoveries in Australia were kept quiet as many feared a gold rush would plunge the largely convict population into chaos and lawlessness.
		The gilding of doors goes back to ancient times when fire gilding and subsequently mercury gilding techniques were used on alloys containing gold to produce a gold-rich surface layer.
		If all the gold ever made in the world to this point was made into a thin wire of 5 microns (millionth of a metre) diameter, then all the gold would stretch around the circumference of the world 72 million times.
	www.sbs.com.au /gold (552 words)

	It's Elemental - The Element Gold
		Gold is a good conductor of heat and electricity and does not tarnish when it is exposed to the air, so it can be used to make electrical connectors and printed circuit boards.
		Pure gold is soft and is usually alloyed with other metals, such as silver, copper, platinum or palladium, to increase its strength.
		Gold is also a good reflector of infrared radiation and can be used to help shield spacecraft and skyscrapers from the sun's heat.
	education.jlab.org /itselemental/ele079.html (352 words)

	GOLD Parsing System - A Free, Multi-Programming Language, Parser
		GOLD uses the LALR algorithm to analyze syntax and a Deterministic Finite Automaton to identify different classes of tokens.
		GOLD is a free parsing system that you can use to develop your own programming languages, scripting languages and interpreters.
		For more information, please read the How it works and Why Use GOLD?
	www.devincook.com /goldparser (390 words)

	To See How Gold Is Doing, Check the Rest of the Market - New York Times
		Gold bugs say it may be that people are starting to lose faith in central banks to preserve the value of paper currencies, while others see evidence of growing demand for gold jewelry as Asia grows richer.
		GOLD is in a bull market, approaching $500 an ounce for the first time since 1987, and there is talk that the move shows renewed fears about inflation.
		Gold was a poor investment in the 1990's, but was an excellent store of value as the stock market was tumbling after the bubble burst in 2000.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/11/26/business/26charts.html?ex=1290661200&en=5001113533bb4afc&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (548 words)

	NATIVE GOLD (Au)
		Gold is almost indestructible and has been used and then reused for centuries to the extent that all gold of known existence is almost equal to all the gold that has ever been mined.
		There are very few true gold ores, besides native gold, because it forms a major part of only a few rare minerals, it is found as little more than a trace in a few others or it is alloyed to a small extent with other metals such as silver.
		Gold is a pleasure to own and possess, as many people have discovered throughout the ages and around the world.
	mineral.galleries.com /minerals/elements/gold/gold.htm (527 words)

	Gold
		Gold serves as a monetary reserve and is used in jewelry, scientific apparatus, dentistry, and photographic processes.
		To extract the gold, the ore is crushed, then the gold is separated from the ore by various methods.
		Nuggets are formed when erosion causes a large piece of Gold to separate from its mother rock, and then gets carried away into a stream or river.
	www.3dchem.com /molecules.asp?ID=177 (548 words)

	SDNHM - Gold
		In 1869, gold was discovered at Coleman Creek in the mountains on the eastern edge of San Diego County.
		Gold is one of the rarest and most valuable minerals on Earth.
		Gold's yellow color and brightness vary with the amount and type of impurities in it.
	www.sdnhm.org /fieldguide/minerals/gold.html (214 words)

	The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town
		The idea of gold as a platonic currency, universally valuable across time and space, reflects a basic distrust of markets, a fear that in a world of paper money wealth is just an illusion.
		In the end, our trust in gold is no different from our trust in a piece of paper with “one dollar” written on it.
		The gold bugs are classic cranks, but their obsession is rooted in experience; we’ve all been conditioned—by history, by myth, by Mr.
	www.newyorker.com /talk/content?041129ta_talk_surowiecki (988 words)

	gold
		Alloys of gold with copper are a reddish yellow and are used for coinage and jewelry.
		Green gold, also used by jewelers, is usually an alloy of gold with silver.
		Gold forms both aurous (univalent) and auric (trivalent) compounds; auric chloride and chloroauric acid are its most common compounds.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0821152.html (668 words)

	California's Natural Resources: A Brief History of the Gold Rush
		In 1854, a 195-pound mass of gold, the largest known to have been discovered in California, was found at Carson Hill in Calaveras County.
		The rich surface and river placers were largely exhausted; hydraulic mines were the chief sources of gold for the next 20 years.
		California's Natural Resources: A Brief History of the Gold Rush
	ceres.ca.gov /ceres/calweb/geology/goldrush.html (422 words)

	Gold coins prices gold bars buying selling carat
		Gold coins, we believe, are a safe and pleasurable investment because gold will always retain good value over time, despite fluctuations, compared to other forms of investment such as currency which are much more volatile.
		Some sites specialising in gold offer various alternative investment options such as Bullion, Gold Mining Shares, Gold Bars etc. We sell just BRITISH COINS, a great place to start if you are new to investing in gold and particularly if you are interested in specialist coins which are historically significant.
		Canada’s Gold Maple Leave Coins are made in pure gold (24 carat) compared to most other 22 carat coins.
	www.gold.co.uk (384 words)

	Gold Seek: Your leading, free, online resource for gold & precious metals information and financial truth - GoldSeek.com
		Just over four months later and the price of gold is up by more than $100 an ounce and silver is up by more than 60%.
		USCorp Announces Renegotiation of Mesquite District Gold Claims
		The Golouma gold geochemical anomaly presently measures 1.5 by 3.0 kilometres in extent and is open to expansion to the south and west.
	www.goldseek.com (1465 words)

	GOLD
		GOLD is optimised for parallel execution on processor networks; a distributed version of GOLD is available for use on commercial PC GRID systems.
		72% of GOLD's top-ranked solutions were found to be accurate using stringent success criteria.
		SILVER is a new program included for use with GOLD and can be used to post-process docking results for large numbers of ligands.
	www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk /products/life_sciences/gold (368 words)

	Discovery of Gold, by John A. Sutter - 1848
		What a great misfortune was this sudden gold discovery for me! It has just broken up and ruined my hard, restless, and industrious labors, connected with many dangers of life, as I had many narrow escapes before I became properly established.
		For some time the people in Monterey and farther south would not believe the news of the gold discovery, and said that it was only a ‘Ruse de Guerre’ of Sutter’s, because he wanted to have neighbors in his wilderness.
		Had I succeeded for a few years before the gold was discovered, I would have been the richest citizen on the Pacific shore; but it had to be different.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist2/gold.html (1754 words)

	Gold - Wikimedia Commons
		This Gold Key, weighing one kilogram is used to access a ten digit account number which is known only to the bearer of the Gold Key.
		Gold nugget in the National Museum of Natural History (USA), about 6 inch long.
		Gold resources- 12 countries are responsible for 66 % of the worldwide Gold extraction.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Gold (139 words)

	Alan Greenspan - Gold and Economic Freedom
		Technically, we remained on the gold standard; individuals were still free to own gold, and gold continued to be used as bank reserves.
		Gold, having both artistic and functional uses and being relatively scarce, has significant advantages over all other media of exchange.
		Gold stands in the way of this insidious process.
	www.usagold.com /gildedopinion/Greenspan.html (2768 words)

	Gold
		The gold in California was mainly in the form of very fine grains, called gold dust.
		Small amounts of gold were found in New South Wales in the early days of the colony, but the authorities hushed it up.
		Governor Fitz Roy was worried that there would be violence and lawlessness at the goldfields, and he ordered that gold seekers must pay for a licence in order to dig for gold.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/gold.htm (386 words)

	North Georgia Gold Rush-1828
		Few words in the English language create the fervor that the cry of "Gold" does in man. A driving force in the colonization of America, gold was the primary reason for Hernando De Soto to visit the North Georgia region in the early 1540's.
		After the Spanish were forced from Georgia, interest in gold died for a number of years, but mining continued off and on throughout 18th century and into the 19th century.
		There was so much gold being produced in the region that the Federal government completed a mint in Dahlonega in 1838, however by that time production had begun to decrease.
	ngeorgia.com /history/goldrush.html (943 words)

	Gold
		Gold's Gym has been the authority on fitness since 1965 dating back to the original Gold's Gym in Venice, California.
		Gold's Gym is the largest chain of co-ed gyms in the world, with over 550 health clubs in 43 states and 25 countries.
		After sending Golds gym a certified letter I called to follow up that they received my info.
	www.gold.oceansfree.com /resources/golds-gym.html (86 words)

	GOLD
		It is true that gold is where you find it, but you should still use common sense when you are searching for gold.
		I admit it; the gold is pretty, and it is worth lots of money, but go prospecting just for the thrill of finding it.
		But it's not the gold that I'm wanting, so much as just finding the gold."-Robert Service, 18-th century miner/poet.
	www.geocities.com /yosemite/gorge/1311/Goldpage.html (579 words)

	Today in History: January 24
		In the 1930s, Sidney Robertson Cowell documented songs of the gold rush era as well as songs of later immigrants to California for the WPA California Folk Music Project.
		The "gold rush" began in earnest only after President James Polk endorsed the discovery in December 1848.
		Previous claims of gold in California had proven disappointing, and Marshall's find was met with skepticism at first.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jan24.html (497 words)

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