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Gold Dust (other)
Gold dust is fine particles of gold. Gold dust may also refer to: Animal *Gold Dust (elephant) (1873–1898), male Asian elephant that was kept in the National Zoo in the late 19th century *Gold dust day gecko, a subspecies of geckos which lives in northern Madagascar and on the Comoros *Gold dust disease, also known as velvet disease, a fish disease caused by the dinoflagellate parasites Plant *''Aurinia saxatilis'', an ornamental plant native to Asia and Europe *''Aucuba japonica'', the gold dust plant, an ornamental shrub native to China, Korea, and Japan *''Chrysothrix candelaris'', the gold dust lichen, a yellow fungus that commonly grows on tree bark *Gold Dust, a cultivar of the rosemary plant Music Record labels and production companies *Gold Dust Media, a record label which joined Studio !K7 in 2008 *Gold Dust Records, a record label formed by Goldie Lookin Chain *Goldust Productions, a music production company Albums *Gold Dust (Tori Amos album), ''Gold Dust'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal in a pure form. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements and is solid under standard conditions. Gold often occurs in free elemental ( native state), as nuggets or grains, in rocks, veins, and alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as electrum), naturally alloyed with other metals like copper and palladium, and mineral inclusions such as within pyrite. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium ( gold tellurides). Gold is resistant to most acids, though it does dissolve in aqua regia (a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid), forming a soluble tetrachloroaurate an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
