To: PeaceBeWithYou
How expensive does the gold make this, though? Why couldn't they use something else, I wonder?
3 posted on
12/01/2004 9:48:19 PM PST by
LibertarianInExile
(NO BLOOD FOR CHOCOLATE! Get the UN-ignoring, unilateralist Frogs out of Ivory Coast!)
To: LibertarianInExile
These things are small.. so not a lot of gold.. Gold is used to coat all kinds of electronics..
8 posted on
12/01/2004 10:00:19 PM PST by
adamj
To: LibertarianInExile
Gold doesn't corrode under all those chemicals used in the process, or other contaminants later, and it's an excellent conductor.
11 posted on
12/01/2004 10:08:38 PM PST by
c-five
To: LibertarianInExile
I'm sure a bottle of Goldschloger uses much more gold than this.
15 posted on
12/01/2004 10:17:57 PM PST by
Kornev
To: LibertarianInExile
Gold is used extensively in the microelectronics field because of its electrical properties.
19 posted on
12/01/2004 11:42:36 PM PST by
Straight Vermonter
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