Comment on Gold

snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’d be cheaper to make.

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  • youcantreadthis@quokk.au ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then we kill all the billionaires and then they’re cheaper to have

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    • snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      With gold bullets and a gold guillotine. I think they would like that.

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      • youcantreadthis@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Gold plated isn’t actually hard I think I could to that in my bathtub

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• rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yeah, after impact, quite evenly. last time it happened, it was called iridium anomaly. there’s not that much gold in electronics and other platinum group metals are more useful from material engineering perspective

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There is no much specifically because it is expensive.

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    • rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      there’s not much because it can be plated real thin and more is not necessary

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      • waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The accountant vs the engineer

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  • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ? Gold would be a big upgrade over copper

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    • ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Would it? Perhaps it wouldn’t oxidise as fast, but copper is more conductive.

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    • rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yes for corrosion resistance and ductility. no for hardness, electrical and heat conductivity. you can’t use gold or its compounds as catalysts where copper makes sense

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    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For what? Gold is a shit conductor compared to copper.

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      • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s not shit, it’s top 3 behind silver and copper. But those oxidize and gold doesn’t. So a gold coated silver core is what you want.

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      • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It has ~70% the conductivity of pure copper, it’s not “shit”

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• swagmoney@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i suppose i could duck it, but is gold more conductive than copper or silver? i thought gold was used because it resists oxidation but not because of its conductivity.

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