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These days, however, gold has a wide range of uses. One of the most popular uses is in electronics as it is one of the best conductors of electricity. Gold is [http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/electrical.html slightly less conductive than copper and silver] but is highly resistant to corrosion compared to copper and silver. Those silicon chips in your computer? They're connected to the pins on their casings by very fine, very pure gold wires. The aforementioned corrosion resistance means that this is the only way wires could be that fine; copper or silver wires would just turn into non-conductive oxide. Recycle a tonne of old computers and you can recover a whopping 250 grams of gold.

 

 

For more raw facts about gold see [[Wikipedia]]'s [[wikipedia:Gold|article on the stuff.]]