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Usage of Gold
The industrial usage of gold is picking up with a variety of industry using gold to get the desired results.
Why are so interested in gold's usage in industry is because of the simple fact that the production of Gold has never gone up drastically but the usage of gold as a financial commodity and its industrial usage will pull up its prices in forseeable future.
Brief information about industrial usage of Gold.
Medicines
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- Alternative medicines have been using gold salts or in other form arthritis and tuberculosis. Its said to have anti-inflammatory properties.
- Gold alloys are being used in rstorative dentistry such as crown and permanent bridges. A few examples in reel life is always available where actors had gold in their teeth.
- Colloidal gold particles are being used in higher biological studies.
- Gold - 198 (isotope) is used for some cancer treatments and other diseases.
Electronics
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- High conducting properties of gold coupled with its inertness to usual chemical and its ductility and maleability makes gold one of the most difficult metal to be replaced in electronics industry.
- Although silver does have a higher conductivity per volumen in comparision with gold but the general resistance to corrosion and oxidation makes the usage of gold unstoppable.
- The following are the usage of gold in electronics industry:
Electrical contacts subjected to intense corrosion stress.
Wire bonding in semi conductor devices.
Electronic sliding contact in high demanding environment
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