![]() ![]() If you don't live in Los Angeles (and let's be realistic, who would want to?) you can buy one direct from me.ĭave Hamric sells element samples under the name Metallium. I visited them once and asked the store manager if they had been doing something unusual to use up so many of them, he said no, people just keep buying bunches of them. It's actually a science museum, and it has the distinction of having sold more of my photographic periodic table posters than any other museum (thousands and thousands of them). I really like the Griffith Observatory even though it's not an observatory (it's in Los Angeles, you understand). Isn't it wonderful that stuff like this actually works? The net effect is to move gold from the cool to the hot end and deposit it slowing into crystal shapes like this. At the 300C end gold reacts with chlorine to form AuCl 3, which travels over to the 500C end where it decomposes back into gold and chlorine. One end of the ampule is heated up to 300C, the other end up to 500C. ![]() Gold is placed in a sealed ampule with small amount of chlorine. It was created more or less for fun by Ivan Timokhin, using chemical vapor transport. This is a small but jewel-like crystal of purest gold. Thin platings of gold give you a lot of pretty for a little money.Īnother pretty vapor deposited gold crystal: See previous sample for details. These are cheap mall earrings I picked up while my daughter was getting her ears pierced. Seriously.Ĭlick here to buy a book, photographic periodic table poster, card deck, or 3D print based on the images you see here!Īn audio cable splitter, gold plated to ensure good contact. This one-ounce nugget of pure gold was found in Alaska in 1890 by Hogamorth Marion, while on a trip to sell shoes to Eskimos. Gold is one of the few elements you can find just lying on the ground. Pictures, stories, and facts about the element Gold in the Periodic Table H ![]()
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