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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 976894, member: 19065&quot;]The link was to provide a quick reference, for the OP and others, to&nbsp; illustrate some of the key uses for gold by industry, not all uses are&nbsp; necessarily listed in that link. It was also employed so that I didn&#039;t&nbsp; have to type out a list of those uses myself to argue it is a viable&nbsp; material that remains widely in demand by industry. The amount of gold&nbsp; used by industry doesn&#039;t diminish the need (demand) for it nor does the&nbsp; limited amount of platinum available in stockpiles make it more useful&nbsp; as a material. The ready supply of a material does not make it more&nbsp; useful than another material. In industrial uses, the material is useful&nbsp; for its properties and applications. It&#039;s rarity helps to set its&nbsp; value.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you have gone about citing some of the uses of gold in industry, you&nbsp; have only done so in manner that attempts to diminish the role of gold&nbsp; in industry by matters of &#039;scale&#039; suggesting the quantity of it&#039;s use by&nbsp; industry makes it less in demand. Gold is incredibly useful on the&nbsp; small scale, say on a computer chip where it is very thinly applied.&nbsp; Rarity of platinum creates a type of demand. It is one that effects&nbsp; value certainly, but the abundance of gold and its incredible amount of&nbsp; applications have made it the superior choice. It supply means there is&nbsp; enough of it but it is its usefulness that is in demand with rarity&nbsp; effecting value. Gold has uses in commerce, industry and ornamental&nbsp; applications and retains its intrinsic value under all conditions, but&nbsp; platinum cannot serve as many uses as does gold whose supply makes it&nbsp; the metal of choice throughout centuries. Golds functionality transcends&nbsp; cultures who see and value, demand, golds for its superior properties. </p><p><br /></p><p>Selecting one ethnic group from all others does nothing to support the&nbsp; reason why gold remains the superior metal for: industry, ornament, as a&nbsp; commodity and as money. Human demand for gold, which is served by industry, is limitless or until something else comes along to replace gold in this capacity, which platinum has not.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will also point out to you that apart from your personal experience, I&nbsp; and many others do know people under 50 years of age who have gold&nbsp; fillings in their teeth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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