What a beautiful sight. With the ability to walk on pure gold. The substance man spends his entire life on earth trying to gather up to leave for someone else to enjoy.
Um, have you ever seen 24 carat (100%) unprocessed gold. It is so soft and malleable that you can ding it up and damage it pretty fast by just touching and handling it, much less walking on it. You can actually bend it in your fingers with no force whatsoever. In fact there is no way to create pure 24 carat gold bars, it more accurately 23.9 carot with .1 carot of other nonprecious metals added to increase its durability. Even then you have to handly the bars very carefuly with gloves to prevent damaging them i.e.
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When the bars are handled, great care is exercised to avoid abrasion of the soft metal.
My wedding ring is 14 carats (58.3% gold, the other 42% is probably silver and copper) and it looks very different than when I first bought it. It is dull and looks very, very worn after only 6 years of use.
BTW. gold is one of the best conductors of heat. If you tried walking on it your bare feet would get frigid very fast.
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