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To: benwood who wrote (87611)	10/12/2007 1:32:18 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Sometimes I find myself starting to be convinced by some self-appointed guru, and then I read something like this: "The lesson of history, after all, is that nothing lasts forever…nothing, perhaps, except gold. Least reactive of all metals, and impossible to destroy with anything other than cyanide to dissolve it, gold had been used as a store of wealth across the world for more than 3,500 years." And then I recall (from high school chemistry) that gold can be dissolved in "aqua regia," a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acid, producing gold chloride. Also, iridium is less reactive than gold. And cynanide does not "destroy" gold. bitsofnews.com