Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Why Do We Value Gold?

Mankind's attitude to gold is bizarre. Chemically, it is uninteresting - it barely reacts with any other element. Yet, of all the 118 elements in the periodic table, gold is the one we humans have always tended to choose to use as currency. Why not osmium or chromium, or helium, say - or maybe seaborgium? Why gold?

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