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a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia

having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"

made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"

coins made of gold

something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.; "the child was as good as gold"; "she has a heart of gold"

a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia

having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet"

made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"

coins made of gold

A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.

Money; riches; wealth.

A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.

Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.

A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.

Money; riches; wealth.

A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.

Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold.

A yellow metallic element with the atomic symbol Au, atomic number 79, and atomic weight 197. It is used in jewelry, goldplating of other metals, as currency, and in dental restoration. Many of its clinical applications are in the form of its salts.

A precious metallic element of a bright yellow color when pure, very heavy, soft, malleable, and ductile, used for coinage and jewelry; money; wealth; precious or pure quality.

One of the precious metals much used for coin: money, riches: yellow, gold color.

A yellow, precious metal; money.

A precious metal of a yellow color, very heavy, ductile, and malleable; money made of this metal; hence, wealth.

A solid, yellow, very brilliant, hard, very ductile, malleable, tenacious, and heavy metal; found in nature, either in its native state, or combined with a little silver, copper, or iron. S.-g. 19-25. Muriate or Chloride of Gold, Auri Chloridum seu Ter chloridum seu Murias seu Chloruretum, Aurum Muriaticum seu Chloratum seu Oxydulatum muriaticum seu Salitum, (F.) Chlorure ou Muriate ou Hydro-chlorate d'or has been admitted into the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, and into that of Paris, &c. The formulae, however, differ. That of the United States is a muriate with two bases; and is prepared, according to the form of Dr. Chrestien, by dissolving the gold in a mixture of nitric and muriatic acids, and adding chloride of sodium to the residuum after evaporation; then redissolving and evaporating slowly to dryness. The Parisian formula for the Muriate d'or, Murias seu Chloruretum Auri, consists in simply dissolving the gold in the acids, and evaporating to dryness. It has been recommended as an antisyphilitic in old, rebellious, venereal affections, exostoses, and in venereal, scrofulous or cancerous glandular enlargements. Dose, gr. 1-8th to gr. ss, rubbed on the tongue or gums. Internally, one-sixteenth of a grain, in pills. Various other preparations, as the Cyanide or Tercyanide, (Auri Cyanidum seu Cyanuretum seu Tercyanidum, (F.) Cyanure d'or;) the metallic gold in a state of division (Aurum metallicum, Pulvis Anri, (F.) Or divise ou metallique,) obtained by amalgamating gold with mercury and driving the latter off by heat; and in the form of filings (Aurum limaturn); the Chloride of Gold and Sodium, (Aurum muriaticum natronatum seu muriaticum seu chloratum natronatum, I Chloretum Auricum Chloreto natrii, Murias Aurico-natricum, Chloruretum auri et natrii, Sodii auro-terchloridum. Hydrochlorate or muriate of Gold and Soda, (F.) Chlorure d'or et de Sodium, Hydrochlorate on muriate d'or et de Soude); the Nitromuriote of Gold, (Aurum Nitrico muriaticum, Auri nitromurias, (F.) Nitromuriate d'or;) the Oxide of Gold, (Anri Oxidum, Aurum Oxidatum, Auri teroxidum, Peroxide of gold, Auric acid, (F.) Oxide d'or); and the Iodide of Gold, (Auri lodidum seu Ioduretum, (F.) Iodure d'or,) have been employed in the like affections, and with similar results.

Heavy yellow metal : several of its salts are medicinal.

A metallic element known from the earliest times. It is a soft, bright yellow, lustrous substance, and is exceedingly tenacious, malleable, and ductile. It is not oxidized at any temperature by contact with water or oxygen, and is not attacked by any acids except selenic acid and a mixture which, like nitrohydrochloric acid, contains nascent chlorin. It is also attacked by alkalis. Symbol, Au; atomic weight, 1962. None of the salts of gold are of great therapeutic importance.

n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic] A precious metal of a reddish-yellow colour and metallic lustre, remarkable for its ductility and malleability;—money; riches; wealth ;—a yellow colour like that of the metal.

The purest, heaviest, and most precious of all metals ; money.