what is the olympic gold medal made of?
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It depends on what country the Olympics are in.  \nIn Salt Lake City, the medals were almost all crystal with a few gold accents.
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Well, besides water, there's dissolved salts, made up of chloride and sulfate salts of calcium, sodium, potassium, and magnesium.  There are also many trace elements, including gold.
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The olympic rings is the symbol of the olympics with the five intersecting circles. There are three on the top and two on the bottom. I believe the colors are red, blue, yellow, red, and green. Supposedly each flag in the world has one of those colors. I would go to www.wikipedia.org to find out more.
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iron, copper, gold, tin.
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5 rings on the olympic flag
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msneed took their answer straight from wikipedia off the internet.  The one thing that needs to be mentioned is that pure gold is 24 karat, but 24 karat is too soft for most jewelry applications.  Therefore most jewelry is either 10, 12, 14 or 18 karat.  This means that most all gold jewelry is mixed with either Copper, nickel, zinc, and/or silver.  White gold usually has much more silver and sometimes palladium or rhodium, therefore white gold is more expensive at the same weight as a normal gold item because white gold has more precious metals in its contents.
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Magnesium and zinc are heavy metals , Gold is light , It does not corrode and is shiny too.It is malleable and Ductile !\nGold has several qualities that have made it exceptionally valuable throughout history. It is attractive in colour and brightness, durable to the point of virtual indestructibility, highly malleable, and usually found in nature in a comparatively pure form. \nSoft, lustrous, white silver was one of the first metals known to humans. Together with gold, iridium, palladium, and platinum, it is one of the group called precious metals. Silver ornaments and decorations have been found in royal tombs dating back as far as 4000 BC.Silver is somewhat harder than gold and is second only to gold in malleability and ductility.\nSame is with silver\nRegards,\nSidra
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White gold is an alloy of gold and some white metals such as silver and palladium. White gold can be 18kt, 14kt, 9kt or any karat. For example, 18kt yellow gold is made by mixing 75% gold (750 parts per thousand) with 25% (250 parts per thousand) other metals such as copper and zinc. 18kt white gold is made by mixing 75% gold with 25% other metals such as silver and palladium. So the amount of gold is the same but the alloy is different.\n\n Traditionally nickel was used in white gold, however, nickel is no longer used in most white gold made today as nickel can cause reactions with some people. We do not use nickel in our white gold
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Good question. The Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles explains it well:\n\nThe Olympic rings are the official symbol of the Olympic Movement. There are five interlacing rings of the colors blue, yellow, black, green, and red. The rings are set upon a white background. \n\nBaron Pierre de Coubertin designed the Olympic emblem in 1913. In his words, "These five rings represent the five parts of the world won over to Olympism. . . This is a real international emblem."\n\nThe Olympic rings represent the union of the areas - the Americas, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Europe and the meeting of athletes throughout the world at the Olympic Games. Contrary to a popular misconception, the colors themselves do not represent any single continent. The colors were chosen because at least one of these colors is found in the flag of every nation. \n\nThe original Olympic flag was made at the "Bon Marché" store in Paris. The flag is three meters long and two meters wide. It first flew over an Olympic stadium at the 1920 Antwerp Games. The original flag also carried the Olympic motto, "Citius, Altius, Fortius," Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger."\n\nHope this helps!\nNewarview
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each ring represents one of the five continents involved in the olympics at the time of its creation.\nalso, all the countries involved could make their flag out of the colors used for the rings and thier white background.
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Obviously, an unreactive metal. Well, you can galvanise the zinc, or you can paint it (I'm serious).
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It is a very pure conductive metal. More pure than gold. Indeed.
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The higher the number the more gold, percentage wise\n\nGold is a precious metal that has been valued by people since ancient times. People use gold for coins, jewelry, ornaments, and many industrial purposes. Until recently, gold reserves formed the basis of world monetary systems. \n\nGold is a very soft metal when it is pure (24 Kt. is pure gold). Gold is the most malleable (hammerable) and ductile (able to be made into wire) metal. Gold is usually alloyed (mixed with other metals, often silver and copper) to make it less expensive and harder. The scientific abbreviation of gold is Au. \n\nThe purity of gold jewelry is measured in karats. Some countries hallmark gold with a three-digit number that indicates the parts per thousand of gold. In this system, "750" means 750/1000 gold (equal to 18K); "500" means 500/1000 gold (equal to 12K).\n\nTherefore 14K is better.
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Gold medals are made of 92.5% pure silver and must be gilded with at least 0.2 ounces of gold.
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In 1896, winners' medals were in fact silver. The custom of gold-silver-bronze for the first three places dates from the 1904 games and has been copied for many other sporting events\n\nHowever, the 1904 Olympics also awarded silver trophies for first place, which makes Athens 1906 the first games that awarded the three medals only
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Wild guess here... a dihydrate of copper chloride.\n\nSecond guess would be copper sulfate, possibly from the manufacturing process.
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Gold\n\nCheck out the cool interactive periodic table in the links below.