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To: TobagoJack who wrote (36632)	7/5/2008 11:43:49 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 217669

Well, being in the electronics and semiconductor industry, I will have to take exception to gold being "useless". It is the most malleable metal it is very conductive and corrosion resistant. Many of the bonding wires inside the chips in your computer use gold, because it is flexible and soft, and does not corrode, and conducts electricity very well. The amount of gold needed for electronics is less than 25% of current production - maybe under 12 %. But it is really needed. I can imagine our current world without titanium - we would have fewer high performance airplanes. Scandium could go. No Indium would mean looking at CRTs instead of flat panels. But no gold - would have made electronics a lot tougher.