| Gold is one of the metals taken from the
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| | personal ornaments, as the savage found
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| earth and is probably the first metal
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| | it easy to beat out the pure ore into
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| known to man. Its first use has been
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| | circlets to adorn his limbs. The
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| traced back to 3600 B. C. and was
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| | universal use of gold in preference to
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| probably originally obtained in Egypt,
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| | all other metals is due to its many
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| as the ancient methods of obtaining gold
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| | properties; its color and luster, its
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| in Egypt are illustrated in early rock
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| | malleability and its indestructibility.
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| carvings. It is said in the book of
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| | Gold does not tarnish nor can it be
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| Genesis that Abraham, in the twentieth
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| | destroyed. It may be reduced to a liquid
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| century B. C., when he went out of Egypt,
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| | and the liquid transferred to a powder,
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| was very rich not only in cattle but in
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| | and the powder when melted in a crucible
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| gold and silver both in dust and ingots.
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| | returns to its natural state. It is the
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| In Exodus xxv, 29, we read that Moses was
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| | most malleable of all metals and has been
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| commanded by the Lord to make spoons of
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| | hammered into leaves 1-282,000th of an
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| gold for the Tabernacle. In the writings
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| | inch thick. An ounce of gold may be drawn
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| of Homer, Sophocles, Herodotus, Pliny and
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| | out into a wire fifty miles long. The
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| others, gold is frequently mentioned.Gold
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| | tenacity of gold is seven tons per square
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| is widely distributed in nature and is
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| | inch.Pure gold, being too soft for all
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| found in many ways and in all parts of
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| | ordinary purposes, is generally alloyed
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| the world. It is found in water, in the
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| | with other metals. Silver and copper are
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| ice of Alaska, in the sand of South
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| | the principal alloys used, although iron
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| Africa, and in the quartz of Colorado,
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| | is used in small quantities for different
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| and is frequently found native, though
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| | purposes. Pure silver has a brilliant
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| usually alloyed with silver or iron. The
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| | white color and is the whitest of all
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| purest specimens of native gold have
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| | metals. No metal surpasses silver in its
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| yielded from 96 to 99 per cent, pure
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| | luster and hardness it ranges between
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| metal.It is remarkable that all of the
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| | pure gold and pure copper. It is more
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| races of mankind have selected gold as
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| | fusible than copper or gold, melting at a
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| the first and chief representative of
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| | bright red heat or at 1873F. It is
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| value. In the earliest times it was used
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| | commonly used for the purpose of alloying
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| as a medium of exchange in the form of
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| | gold in its pure state, but if too much
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| bars, spikes and rings; the rings could
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| | is added it makes the gold pale. Pure
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| be opened and closed so that a chain
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| | copper is the only metal that has a
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| could be made for convenience in
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| | reddish appearance. It is both malleable
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| carrying. Gold was also used at a very
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| | and ductile; hence it is very useful as
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| early period for the construction of
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| | an alloy for gold.
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