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<p>[QUOTE="silverman987, post: 2008740, member: 30030"]One does not need to know how to read, write or even know what the periodic table to know what gold is. People have been refining gold for thousands of years before we knew what elements are.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing about gold is that it has many properties that not many other elements have. To name a few, gold is malleable and ductile, not very reactive, dense compared to many other metals, and is bright yellow. Although bronze is gold in color, it does not have many of the other properties of gold. This makes testing gold easy and cheap. Now, I'm not saying that for a fact there are not people who will not confuse fools gold or bronze for gold, however, I do not believe that 99.5% of the population can't tell the difference. What I do believe though is that 99.5% of all statics is made up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="silverman987, post: 2008740, member: 30030"]One does not need to know how to read, write or even know what the periodic table to know what gold is. People have been refining gold for thousands of years before we knew what elements are. The thing about gold is that it has many properties that not many other elements have. To name a few, gold is malleable and ductile, not very reactive, dense compared to many other metals, and is bright yellow. Although bronze is gold in color, it does not have many of the other properties of gold. This makes testing gold easy and cheap. Now, I'm not saying that for a fact there are not people who will not confuse fools gold or bronze for gold, however, I do not believe that 99.5% of the population can't tell the difference. What I do believe though is that 99.5% of all statics is made up.[/QUOTE]
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