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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snoons@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
At least everything would be covered in gold then. Electronics would be cheaper too.
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
There is no much specifically because it is expensive.
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
there’s not much because it can be plated real thin and more is not necessary
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The accountant vs the engineer
Zwiebel@feddit.org 14 hours ago
? Gold would be a big upgrade over copper
ricdeh@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Would it? Perhaps it wouldn’t oxidise as fast, but copper is more conductive.
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
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
For what? Gold is a shit conductor compared to copper.
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.
gnutrino@programming.dev 11 hours ago
It has ~70% the conductivity of pure copper, it’s not “shit”
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.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
They’d be cheaper to make.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 13 hours ago
Then we kill all the billionaires and then they’re cheaper to have
snoons@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
With gold bullets and a gold guillotine. I think they would like that.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 6 hours ago
Gold plated isn’t actually hard I think I could to that in my bathtub