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2006-10-05 21:45:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Because gold doesn't corrode
2006-10-05 21:53:40 · answer #1 · answered by Malene P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a very good question. Gold is a limiyrf metal which is recovered from mines. In ancient times, the population in the world was not so large as it is now. Logically the demand for gold of the lesser popultion was less than it is today. Now the question arises that "How so much gold is seen today despite the fact that it is a limited metal?". It is due to the fact that gold is extracted from the mine in larger quantities to meet with the demand than in the past. Moreover additional avenues for extraction of gold have been discovered through science and we are adequately meeting with the demand of gold by population. I think your answer is adequately answered and it is proved that quantity of gold is maximized by scientific research and other methods to meet with the demand of present generations.
2006-10-05 22:34:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chemists say that Gold is no longer a precious metal because it never goes away. Iron combines with oxygen and forms ferrous oxide (rust). That iron is gone, it's never coming back. Gold doesn't do that. You could take your Gold jewelry, grind it up and eat it (pls don;t) and 50 yrs later it becomes a deposit on the bottom of a river bed. Gold never goes away. A thousand years from now they'll be saying, "Gold, can't get rid of that S-IT". The price of Gold at this time is high because it's bid up by commodity brokers not because it's precious. Don't buy Gold now, sell it.
2006-10-05 22:02:44 · answer #3 · answered by The professor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ancient as well as all the civilisations till present time were in a search for life's beauty. Life's beauty can be reached only through high skill or art of living.The gold is mechanical surrogate for our failed dreams.It would replace bad results of our scarce skills to attain life of beauty but it can't because beauty is result of investing total personal potential in deeds, thoughts and feelings,not partial (mechanical, collecting and modelling gold).
2006-10-06 00:07:30 · answer #4 · answered by oceangleam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gold is toughly made under the ground with years and years and decades and decades and even centuries under their belts and if they are made in such a long amount of time, they probably will last long too.
Also gold is a good conductor of heat and is affected by air. Heat, moisture, oxygen, and most corrosive agents have very little chemical effect on gold.
Since they are very precious, these people might have kept them in the safest places and protected them with all they can like what we do today. :)
2006-10-05 21:48:27 · answer #5 · answered by Lea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gold is somewhat mailable. that's made into notably much any shape. it is likewise Chemically ideal for jewelry. it rather is unaffected by maximum corrosive reagents or by air, and moisture. So it could tarnish by the years besides the undeniable fact that that's going to save that's shape. In Egypt for example it rather is somewhat dry lots of the year and the burial websites of the Pharaoh's have been air tight in maximum cases whilst looters hadn't opened the tomes.
2016-12-26 11:02:07 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unlike a lot of metals gold does not rust, so it stands the test of time. Gold is forever.
2006-10-06 01:33:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gold is valued for its colour and the fact that it doesn't tarnish. It is last on the reactive table of metals.
So..... 1. it is coveted and prized...an ...2 ...it doesn't rust when in the ground.
2006-10-05 21:51:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gold doesn't tarnish.
2006-10-05 23:44:21 · answer #9 · answered by Not called Katie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋