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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2101744, member: 71234&quot;]<i>Last week, Apple cultists took note after the Financial Times published a profile of the company&#039;s design guru, Jony Ives, in which he explained that “the molecules in Apple gold are closer together, making it twice as hard as standard gold.”</i></p><p><br /></p><p>This is clearly complete bollocks, in two ways. The gold is an element not a compound or one of the few elements that naturally form a di-atomic pair and it is impossible without altering the nature of the universe to move the atoms of an element closer together. Well, you can, I suppose, overcome the the atomic force in the&nbsp; case of a fusion reaction or in the core or a neutron star but you&#039;d not want either on your wrist. The designer does not know his atoms from his molecules</p><p><br /></p><p>Reading further, it appears that they have made an alloy with the atoms dispersed in a non metallic material, so they are in fact further apart.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lesson not to let designers say anything even vaguely&nbsp; scientific.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone spending five figures on such wierd tat should be gently led away to a padded room.</p><p><br /></p><p>A prudent person should wait a year or so till they can get one from China for $50.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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