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Precious Metals: There's More to Gold Than Just Glamour
by Mark Nildern
http://www.rigold.com
Most people appreciate that gold is a highly valuable
precious metal, and admire it for its ornative qualities.
Is there is a woman today (at least in the western world)
who doesn't have at least one piece of gold jewelry? It
may only her wedding band. We know that wars have been
fought over it, people have died for it, people are
consumed by greed for it, others have betrayed friends and
family for it, once we examine the history of this lovely
metal. Gold represents wealth and power in the minds of
most people. Some of the more practical ways that gold is
used every day is what we want to have a look, however.
The deployment systems for motor vehicle air bags, for
example, use gold-plated sensors that send a signal to the
air bag when it's time to deploy. Why gold? Simply
because this is the only metal that's resistant enough to
be used for this type of device. In addition, its
reliability factor makes it the best possible choice for
the metal that's used to save the lives of you and your
loved ones in the event of an accident.
Today's tremendous volume of communication requires an
equally large variety of phones. There exist today land
phones, cell phones, wireless phones, internet telephony,
etc. All of these carry the vast amount of daily business
and personal communication that takes place around the
world. But, without gold, we would not be able to use all
of these fabulous devices. Gold is a critical element in
the transmission of all phone calls. Each mouthpiece has
gold in its miniature transmitter, and, in addition, this
precious metal is used in phone jacks and connection cords.
The natural properties of gold make it the best element to
convey a superior telephonic signal, and so it is used in
virtually all of the phone systems in use today.
The space probe Galileo is completely dependent upon its
onboard computers. They are kept from short-circuiting by
the use of heavy ion conductors, made from silicone and
gold. If they did not have this type of protection, this
and other space vessels would not be able to function, and
we would lose critical information about the universe and
and our place within its structure.
Each president of the United States uses gold each time he
travels, and it isn't just because he wears a gold watch.
He is supplied by the American government with a plane
soley for his use. Airforce One, the plane the president
uses to travel is equipped with gold-plated reflectors that
protect the plane from being targeted by heat-seeking
missiles.
For additional knowledge, or In order to protect ourselves
from possible space hazards, we are constantly peering into
the skies. We need to have strong, dependable telescopes
to do this, so that scientists can see at great distances
in significant detail. KeckTelescopes are used
for this purpose, and they contain gold-coated mirrors that
look around our space neighborhood. We have received
most detailed and precise images of Neptune and Uranus ever
recorded from these Keck Telescopes.
The many uses of gold are impressive, most of which far
outweigh that of embellishment or financial investment
considerations. With any luck, folks will learn to
appreciate this most precious metal for a far better reason
, what it can do to increase the quality of life for the
human race.
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