why is salt better than gold?    why is gold better than salt?
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salt- adv: it seasons food and makes some taste better\ndis: too much salt can litterly kill you\n\nGold- adv: it makes beautiful jelwery\ndis: cant be used to build anything because its so soft.
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Copper has a higher melting and boiling point and better electrical conductivity.\n\nIf you are a die caster, Zinc would be better because it can be easily pressure die-cast and hence better accuracy in the cast component with minimal metal removal for finishing.
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It is because of all the minerals dissolved and very small washed into it, from rivers, that have erode on the land.\n\nIt is a certain mix of minerals that makes it salty, but the dead sea is an example of where mineral are washed in, but dont run out to anywhere is, so it just gets saltier.
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As a recreational prospector, I prefer gold to silver. When you find gold, you usually don't have to do any processing, you have gold. Silver, on the other hand is usually locked up in some kind of ore and needs further processing, you just don't find silver nuggets.
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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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Fool's gold (pyrite) is a lot more common.  Being rare makes things more expensive. Plus there's not much you can do with pyrite, although it does grow naturally in cool shapes like squares and octahedrons.
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Salt is refined from many sources. "Table" salt is defined by salt that has been milled to a powder  - no lumps etc!
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salt is really nacl\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20060629161443AACbQ6Z&pa=FYd1D2bwHTHwIbtgFugzSdb971gLn7zTCKP3PS8pe8mDJA--&msgr_status=\n\n13"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.\n\nGenesis 19.26 But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.\n\nso yes, the two are connected
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Gold is a metal thrown to earth by Zeus because he did not want his wife Hera to be greedy. Did not help him or her.
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A couple of reasons... Gold atoms are heavier than either the iron or sulfur atoms that make up pyrite.  Also when the iron and sulfur atoms bond in pyrite they form a lattice or patterned arrangement.  This leaves room for lots or air in between the atoms.  Gold bonds to other gold atoms in a very close arrangement, as close as possible, leaving little space for air.
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To put it most simply, Copper is a metal and sulphur is a nonmetal.  Metals are better conductors of electricity.  If you want to know why metals are better conductors than nonmetals, you should look up band theory.
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Neither. It is a salt, the most famous one.
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Gold started out as valuable in ancient days because it made durable, pretty looking jewelry.  Because it was rare, kings and rich people used gold jewelry, etc as a status symbol.  People then found it made a good money for expensive purchases. You can easily carry gold coins around, and the cost is easily calculated by weight.  Once it became money, even more people wanted it, pushing its value up even more.  \n\nNow that we are off the gold standard, gold still holds its allure as a rare substance, due to its history.  Also, gold has a clear value per ounce and is easily exchangeable.  When you buy many other rare things like diamonds, its hard to know exactly what they're worth.  You have to be an expert in the field to evaluate them.\n\nHowever, over the long run, gold is a very volatile investment, and there's no guarantee it will go up in the future.  It is now selling for less than it was in 1980.
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Gold is an element and it's just called Gold.\nA mixture of gold with other elements may be referred to as a compound containing gold eg, gold nitrate.\nThe quality and hence the value of gold is rated in units called karats.
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The only way to turn metals into gold is to change the number of neutrons and protons (most importantly protons) in the nucleus.  That is THE only way.  Alchemy only leads to dead ends.  Don't be fooled by things that look golden.
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Salt - sodium chloride.\n\nIf you need something a bit more unusual, I believe there is imitation salt which is potassium chloride.
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adding salt to water increases the boiling point and lowers the freezing point, so it definitely wont be the salt water. (on another note, that's why some people add salt to the water when making pasta- the water will begin to boil at a higher temperature, so when the person adds the pasta to the water it cooks faster).\n\nsugar water would have a less dramatic effect than salt water, but plain water itself would freeze the fastest.