What properties makes gold similar from lead?

Question

like its chemical or electronic or conductivity or whatever

Answer 1

Both are malleable, ductile, melt easily, conduct heat and electricity.

Answer 2

Trying to transmute metals? Alchemy's so *over*! Give it up!

Lead is dull dark gray and lodges in your brainstem and makes you dopey and sick and stunts growth. Gold is white or yellow or maybe pink, depending on how much copper is mixed in and is non-reactive, which means you can drink Goldschlager and not get brain damage (from the gold, anyway--I don't know about the alcohol.)

Lead is used for solder and used to be used for pipes. Hence the periodic table abbreviation--Pb (from plumbum, Latin for "plumbing.") It's kinda soft and very heavy and melts well when you mix it with tin, so you can make solder that is an alloy and has different properties than both lead and tin. Or you can get lead-free solder, which is more expensive, but doesn't make you stupid when you inhale it. Lead is used to block radiation--I don't think gold would work as well and it certainly would cost too much to have gold radiation shields. Gold is Au on the periodic table, which stands for, Augeum? Augeus? I don't remember. Something from Greek mythology. Lead is cheaper than gold and used to be used for trinkets and little votive offerings, like throwing a little lead leg charm into the water at Lourdes to help a leg problem. Gold is expensive and pretty and doesn't tarnish like silver. Lead can be made different colors if you put patina on it for stained glass work.

Answer 3

I believe gold has one more neutron than lead. So it could be made in a nuclear reactor.