Besides being shiny, what did gold have going for it that made many different races and peoples assign it value?
Especially before industrial applications.
Besides being shiny, what did gold have going for it that made many different races and peoples assign it value?
Oliver Sanders
Ayden Campbell
Rarity of course
Wyatt Collins
It doesn't tarnish unlike iron.
Eli Johnson
Goddamn I hate Indians so much
Nathaniel Ward
It's one of the solid chemical elements that are the least reactive to others, while being the most malleable of metals.
It's not perishable. Your material possessions can be destroyed, but not your gold: you'd still have the same quantity
Matthew Long
Why?
Christopher Bailey
Don´t worry, he died.
Jacob Phillips
You jelly?
Nathan Moore
It's not as laughably easy to forge gold coins like the clay tokens and tablets they were using as currency before.
Justin Collins
btw this is isn't /pol/ considering hating Indians is part of Veeky Forums culture /g/ and Veeky Forums mainly
Ethan Young
Wrong. Hating Indians is nu-user culture. Golden age Veeky Forums is completely pro-Indian.
Carter Long
It wasn't good for much else. You can't make armor or weapons out of it. It's easy to melt down into coins, and it's limited in quantity. It's perfect for use as a valuable currency. It's only recently that we found out it's a good conductor.
Wyatt Richardson
Why not just use boolet as ammo? Is ingenious idea, comrade! If ever capitalist inflation is of issue, then just shooting of bullets out of gun! is simple as that.
Hunter Moore
Low reactivity meant it lasted longer than any alternative.
Jose Bell
Is there a name for that mask Russian soldiers wear? I always see it in stuff like battlefield.
Ian Lopez
FUCK YOUR INDIA BECOME SUPER POWER BY 2020
Chase Walker
There are a bunch of different helmets that have those visors, but the only one who's name I know is called an altyn helmet.
And yes, the visor is bulletproof:
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Noah Russell
theguardian.com
Gold is rare
Gold is ridiculously pretty. You can polish it until it's practically orange and blazes like the sun.
Gold is soft and easily formed into jewelry and coinage
Gold doesn't corrode
Gold has unique chemical properties that make it hard to fake.
Henry Powell
>malleable and can therefore be made into whatever
>doesn't corrode over time like iron or copper
>scarce
So basically, it's permanent in the sense that it doesn't rust or tarnish over time, it's scarce enough that it makes sense to use as a currency, and it's easy to work with to make jewelry, coins or whatever.
Cooper Morris
> silver is rarer than gold
> platinum is rarer still
> gold is still propped up as THE precious metal
is this similar how deBeers hides tons of caches of diamonds to artificially increase it's rarity and not to turn into complete meme?
Evan Thomas
>he died
How? When?
Kayden Jenkins
Nevermind Damn this makes me sad for some reason.
Jackson Sanders
Great conductor.
Easton Green
If you mean the helmet on the left, it's an Altyn I believe
Jack Nguyen
How about diamonds. What use do they have besides jewelry?
Genuinely asking
Tyler Gutierrez
There are a lot of diamond cutting and grinding tools, owing to diamonds being extremely hard. In fact, that's what most of the diamonds mined around the world are used for.
Nathan Sullivan
Yes, but we can make synthetic diamonds too, that are even better; diamonds are valuable because DeBeers keeps the supply scarce to inflate their prices. The diamond producers marketing is also very good at duping westerners into believing in bullshit like engagement rings with diamonds that have to cost a bare minimum of 3 wages, kek