Advanced Technologies for Gold Prospection and Mining Paperback / softback
by Fouad A S Soliman, Karima A Mahmoud
Paperback / softback
Description
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from Latin: aurum) and atomic number 79.
This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.
It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductilemetalin a pure form.
Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element.
It is one of the least reactive chemical elements and is solid under standard conditions.
Gold often occurs in free elemental(native state), as nuggets or grains, in rocks, veins, and alluvial deposits.
It occurs in a solid solutionseries with the native element silver (as electrum), naturally alloyed with other metals like copper and palladium, and mineral inclusions such as within pyrite.
Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium (gold tellurides).
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:180 pages
- Publisher:LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- Publication Date:31/01/2023
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- ISBN:9786206142263
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:180 pages
- Publisher:LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- Publication Date:31/01/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9786206142263
