Gold

Gold


 

Wisdom, Protection, Success

Spiritual Properties

  • Signifies elegance and opulence
  • Attracts honor, wealth, and happiness
  • Provides a stabilizing energy to minerals it is paired with 
  • Transfers the vitality of any companion mineral to areas affected by negative energy
  • Symbolizes purity and “All That Is’, as well as development of complete understanding

Mental Properties

  • Eliminates Ego conflicts 
  • Enhances mental functions
  • Balances the right and left brain
  • Activates and actualizes your potential 
  • Helps you  preserve higher thought forms
  • Teaches you to improve your characteristics 

Emotional Properties

  • Provides composure 
  • Amplifies positive feelings
  • Combats feelings of inferiority
  • Stabilizes the emotional system
  • Lessens the feelings of an overburden of responsibility 
  • Lessens the traumas associated with gaining knowledge
  • Helps you understand and release feelings of disapproval toward yourself 

Kundalini Properties 

  • Balances the heart chakra
  • Balances your energy field
  • Activates the third eye and crown chakras
  • Clears negativity from chakras and energy fields

Health Benefits 

  • Increases warmth
  • Combats depression
  • Purifies the physical body
  • Alleviates tension and stress
  • RebuildS the nervous system
  • Rejuvenates the endocrine system
  • Helps you absorb vitamins and minerals
  • Regenerates your tissue and skeletal structure
  • Improves digestion, circulation, and breathing
  • Treatment of arthritis, skin cancer, blood disorders, pneumonia, vascular diseases, heart disease, eye problems, paralysis, rheumatism, skin disorders, tuberculosis, nightmares, spinal problems, autism, dyslexia, epilepsy, and physical coordination

Affirmations

  •  My potential is limitless
  • I am improving myself each and every day

Correspondence 

  • Chakras: Heart, Third Eye, Crown
  • Energy: Receptive and Projective
  • Planets: Sun
  • Element: Fire
  • Zodiacs: Leo
  • Number: 2

Physical Properties

Uses

Coinage, Jewelry, Gold Art Leaf, Electrical connectors, Industrial catalyst 

Color

Golden Yellow

Block

D

Habit

Massive form, grains, flake, plates, nuggets, dendritic forms, and occasionally, but rarely, in octahedral, cubic as well as rhombic dodecahedral crystals

Series

Forms a series with silver

Group

11, Copper Group

Alloys

White gold, Most Yellow Gold, Rose Gold 12K refers to a 50% gold alloy and 24k refers to a 100% gold 

Twins

Common on (111) to give herringbone twins. Repeated on (111) to give stacks of spinel twins that form hexagonal wires

Rarity

Common

Luster

Metallic

Species

Gold

Zoning

Absent

Parting

Absent

Gravity

19.3

Tenacity

Malleable

Fracture

Hackly

Cleavage

Absent 

Hardness

2.5

Elasticity

Ductile

Locations

Australia, South Africa, America, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Sweden, Italy, England, Brazil, Canada, and Venezuela

Sourced From

South Africa and China

Ionic Radius

Ionic Radius: 85 (+3e) 137 (+1e)

Key Isotopes

197Au

Bipartisan

Absent

Dispersion

Unknown

Chatoyancy

Absent

Pleochroism

Absent

Fluorescence

Absent

Electric Birefringence

Negative

Diaphaneity

Opaque

Named After

Sanskrit Jval; Anglo-Saxon gold;  also Latin aurum, shining dawn

Boiling Point

3080

State at 20°C

Solid

Melting point

1337.58

Discovered In

Prehistoric time, Thought to be produced in the supernova nucleosynthesis and collision of neutron stars and present in the dust generated by the Solar System, Brought during the Late Heavy Bombardment 4 billion years ago

Luminescence

Rare in nanoparticles of gold

Discovered By

Ancient Egyptian, Minoan, Assyrian, and Etruscan artisans

Chemical Name

Gold

Refractive Index

Low, Absent 

Atomic Radius

146

Atomic Weight

196.9665

Atomic Volume 

10.2

Atomic Number

79

Covalent Radius 

134

System/Structure

Isometric, Face-Centered Cubic (FCC)

Valence Electrons 

1

Chemical Formula

Au

Common Impurities

Ag,Cu,Pd,Hg,Bi

Inclusions (streak)

Metallic Yellow

Relative Mass

196.967

Electron Configuration

[Xe]6s14f145d10

Chemical Classification

Native Element

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