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What are some interesting facts about the element gold?

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The symbol origin is from the Latin word aurum meaning gold.

Less than 50% of all the world's gold is still in the ground.

Gold never rusts.

Native Scottish gold is the purest, at 22.8 karats.

The origin of it's name is from the old English word geolo meaning yellow.

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