page_title: Gold
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Gold / See also
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Pyrit (Katzengold). Der maximale Durchmesser dieses Exemplars ist 52 mm. English: Pyrite (Fool's Gold). The maximum diameter of this specimen is 52 millimetres (2.0&#160;in). Polski: Skupienie kryształów pirytu nazywanego „złotem głupców”. Maksymalna średnica tej próbki wynosi 52&#160;mm. Sunda: Pirit (Eemasan). Diaméter pangpanjangna ieu spésimén 52 millimetres (2.0&#160;in). Čeština: Minerál pyrit (falešné nebo kočičí zlato). Español: Pirita, un mineral del grupo de los sulfuros, también conocida como el "oro de los tontos" o el "oro de los pobres" por su gran parecido con el oro. Magyar: Pirit (bolondok aranya) 한국어: 황철석 - Fool's Gold (바보의 금) Македонски: Минеталот пирит, наречен и „злато на будалата“. Эрзянь: Пиритэнь кристаллт («Чаволань сырне» — Fool's Gold) Nederlands: Pyriet, ook wel 'gekkengoud' (Engels: Fool's Gold) genoemd Português: Pirita, um mineral do grupo dos sulfetos, também conhecido como "ouro dos tolos" ou "ouro dos pobres" por ser muito parecido com o ouro.
context_page_description: Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. In a pure form, it is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. 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 form, as nuggets or grains, in rocks, in veins, and in alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver and also naturally alloyed with copper and palladium. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium.
  Gold is resistant to most acids, though it does dissolve in aqua regia, which forms a soluble tetrachloroaurate anion. Gold is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals, a property that has long been used to refine gold and to confirm the presence of gold in metallic objects, giving rise to the term acid test. Gold also dissolves in alkaline solutions of cyanide, which are used in mining and electroplating.
context_section_description: Bulk leach extractable gold
  Chrysiasis (dermatological condition)
  Commodity fetishism (Marxist economic theory)
  Digital gold currency
  GFMS consultancy
  Gold fingerprinting
  Gold phosphine complex
  Gold Prospectors Association of America
  List of countries by gold production
  Mining in Roman Britain
  Prospecting
  Tumbaga
  Iron pyrite
caption: Iron pyrite or "fool's gold"
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