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2006-07-15 03:49:59 · 5 answers · asked by Hobie 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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Nothing. Gold is inert. Chlorine is a reducing agent. Chlorine has no effect what so ever on aurum.

2006-07-15 03:55:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Nothing under usual circumstances; You could drop a gold, platinum or titanium coin in your swimming pool (or for that matter the atlantic ocean) and, aside from the slow physical abrasion of the water flow, the coins would all be clean and untarnished 2 million years from now. The metals (as well as some others) are "nobel" metals which as a group are very poorly reactive and are difficult to make into chemical compounds. This is why, depsite 6 billion years on earth, gold is still often mined in its natural form with miners looking for yellow specks of pure gold amongst the rock (modern gold mines use chemical agents to leach gold out of large amount of crushed rock but even in this case the gold itself is in uncompounded form in the rock but is just in very fine particles). Under special conditions, utilizing extreme oxidizing agents, gold and plantinum can be coaxed into chemical compounds - for example cis-platinum is a compound of platinum used in chemotherapy. Some gold compounds are used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Extreme reducing agents including florine gas (which will react with almost everything) and chlorine radicals can react with gold to form compounds so arous-chlorate type compounds can be formed with chlorine but this reaction is not easy to accomplish

2006-07-15 04:49:22 · answer #2 · answered by Robert F 1 · 0 0

Nothing. Gold is not affected by anything....unless it is brute force. You may want to be careful though as some 'gold' isn't that pure or when it is gold-plate is is rather sensitive to chemicals as well. It may 'dissolve' from the object it is on.

2006-07-15 03:53:01 · answer #3 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0 0

Gold is rather inert to reactions from most chemicals.

2006-07-15 03:53:31 · answer #4 · answered by WC 7 · 0 0

disease free?

2006-07-15 03:53:49 · answer #5 · answered by Kenneth S 1 · 0 0

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