Fun facts about gold jewelry
If you are fascinated by gold, as most humans have been for the last 7000 years then you may find the following facts about the beautiful metal that you can wear around your neck, wrists and fingers to be quite interesting and in some cases surprising as well
Gold and copper were the first metals to be discovered by man, around 5000BC, and with money from these three metals are found in the metallic state in the crust.
After the fall of the Roman Empire mining and gold production was halted for nearly 1000 years until the discovery of America Spanish in 1492.
In the 14th century, the Incas, who considered gold "the sweat of the sun," conquered the Chimu Empire and made Chimu goldsmiths cover every inch of their Temple of the Sun's walls in gold.
In the 15th century, gold inspired Cortes to defeat Montezuma in Mexico and seize the vast Aztec gold shops in an effort to revive the economy of Spain.
In 1531, Pizarro invaded Peru and captured Atahualpa, the Inca ruler and immediately melt all the gold of the Incas and has returned to Spain
Exploitation Gold has made a much larger dimension after the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on the American River (California) in 1848.
The gold was discovered in Australia and South Africa contributed to a further increase in the supply of gold in the world and marked a watershed in the history of gold. Once a rare metal, gold is now more accessible by people of all classes.
In the modern era, Italy has remained at the forefront of the industry gold jewelry. The Italian Renaissance coincided with the discovery new sources of gold, and wealthy Italian patrons supported goldsmiths as they did painters and sculptors.
The chemical symbol for gold is Au, from the Latin aurum, which "bright dawn" means. Aurora was the Roman goddess of dawn which binds to the heat, color yellow gold. Gold and copper are the only two non white metal.
Gold is still mined in its metallic form in over 60 countries worldwide.
Gold is considered a precious and a noble metal.
Gold has an excellent chemical stability with a high resistance to corrosion and oxidation.
The purity of gold is measured in carats or karats. A Carat was originally a unit of weight based on carob, used by ancient merchants in the Middle East.
Carat is still used to the weight of precious stones, where 1 carat = 200mg. Pure gold is 24 carats.
In Europe, 18 and 14 carat alloys are commonly used in jewelry while nine carat is popular in Great Britain. Many countries require that each item of gold jewelry to be clearly marked with its karat values. This punching system was developed London in the 14th century Hall Goldsmiths'.
All the gold in the world could be compressed into a cube 18 yards This represents approximately 1 / 10 the mass of the Washington Monument.
It is estimated that only 88,000 tonnes of gold were removed from the earth's history, leaving much to be discovered.
A golden nugget of an ounce is rarer and more difficult to find a five carat diamond.
Even though gold is rare, it is much easier to find than winning a major state lottery.
Gold is so heavy that a cubic foot of it weighs half a ton. Gold is six to seven times heavier than other materials that equal its size. The biggest nugget of gold found in the U.S. weighed 195 pounds, she came to California.
One ounce of gold can be drawn into a wire 60 miles long. Gold can be hammered so thin that the sun can shine through it. Gold can be hammered into sheets so thin that a pile of them an inch high would contain more than 200,000 separate sheets.
In every cubic mile of seawater there are 25 tons of gold and are10 billion tonnes of gold in the oceans.
These are some surprising facts about the world's favorite precious metal.
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