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Gold bullion

Because of its beauty and rarity, gold bullion is still used as the international standard for money, accepted as such by all nations. It is also used in jewelry, in dentistry, and as a protective or decorative coating on the surface of other metals. Gold has even been used in space vehicles. Though men have fought and died for gold down through the centuries, the element has comparatively few uses. [Pg.58]

In 1809-10 Joseph Cloud, chemical director of the Philadelphia Mint, discovered an alloy of gold and palladium in two ingots of gold from Brazil (48, 49). The following account of this discovery is to be found in Nichobons Journal for 1812 In 1807 about 820 ounces of gold bullion were brought into the mint of the United States. They... [Pg.430]

Finally, the remaining gold is owned by private individuals. This gold exists in the form of jewelry, art, coins, or bullion. Gold bullion are bars or other large pieces of pure gold. [Pg.230]

Auctions may be for a single object or a package of nonidentical items. Alternatively, auctions may be for multiple units where many units of a homogeneous, standardized good are to be sold, such as gold bullion in the auctions conducted by the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury in the 1970s and the weekly auctioning of securities by the Treasury. [Pg.273]

Lead bullion is clectrorcfined to produce refined lead and slimes. The slimes arc treated in the silver refinery where a series of furnaces process the slimes to produce dore metal and bismuth, as well as various slags and baghouse dusts that contain antimony and arsenic. Some of the baghouse dust is directed to the copper products plant and the lead alloys plant to recover antimony and arsenic values, and the remainder of the baghouse dust and the slags are recycled to the smelter. Done metal is electrorefined to produce pure silver and gold bullion. [Pg.311]

A gold bullion dealer advertised a bar of pure gold for sale. The gold bar had a mass of 3300 g and measured... [Pg.42]

There exist many hop varieties and the search for newer types with improved characteristics still goes on. Some well known varieties are Northern Brewer, Hallertau, Saaz, Brewers Gold, Bullion and Jakima. Newer varieties are especially studied at Wye College, Ashford, Kent in England (10). [Pg.13]


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