What about expensive metal
Precious metal is definitely the most common, but there are some interesting facts you may not have known about gold.
- The largest gold bar in the world weighs 250 kg.
- Gold has been discovered on all continents of the earth.
- There is about 0,2 mg of gold in our body, with the largest percentage being in our blood.
- Small traces of gold have been found on eucalyptus leaves.
- Olympic gold medals have only 1,34% of their construction gold.
- More than 6 milligrams of gold are lost each year by a wedding ring simply by wearing it.
- 24 carat gold melts at 1.063 degrees Celsius.
- There is enough gold in the Earth's core to cover its entire surface.
- There are people who have a phobia of gold.
- NASA estimates that the closest asteroid to Earth, Eros, contains billions of tons of gold.