Why Are The Properties Of Gold So Unique?

Not a bad documentary to watch, but the title is Misleading... Merrrrrr 🫤

GOLD has value, only because it was and is still, traditionally valued. Gold is basically useless. An empty "store of value" left over from a non-technological bygone era. Gold is useful for ornamentation and for making small electronic connections. You could throw all the gold into the ocean, and life would go on, unchanged. Wealth is generated in manufacturing. Just go and ask the Chinese.

"Why Are The Properties Of Gold So Unique?" then they spend nearly 2 minutes with their drama bullschit on engineering which has nothing to do with why gold is unique

I like how billions of years is spoken of as facts-- like the narrator was there. Its a cool theory and religion, but I'm not buying it. Nothing blew up and created everything... please. You should just stick to the facts.

I watched 45 minutes in and have yet to hear what makes gold so unique. I know it's the best normal-temperature conductor of electricity, which is why you find gold on computer circuit boards. I know a lot about it, but not WHY it's got these properties.

Whoever writes "so unique" does not know what unique means.

Alex has aged a bit.
Now I have an itch to watch the farm series again 😊

The myth of the golden fleece, now that's cool. Makes sense. This is more the interesting "History" not properties... misleading

The misleading title apart, I find it strange that no mention is made of the hoard of gold in South America (namely the Incas) and the Indian subcontinent.

Great videos but would be better without so much wall to wall over-the-top background music. At worst it makes it harder to hear the talking if you're over 50 or don't have perfect hearing, and at best is just cheesy.

Gold is not rare, its manipulated on the market to retain a high price. Diamonds are a great example of this.

I just want to let people know I'm a construction worker, and my schedule is open for a lead blockbuster movie role.

Gold was transported to Spain on a ship. While transfering it from the ship it was dropped in a river delta. It was attempted to recover it but it sank in the mud about a hundred feet deep. No way to reach it. It is still there in the delta mud.

Y’all hate Africa

Kudos to the producers of this valuable history of gold. I learned much as a non-scientist and wannabe gold prospector 💛🥇🔑🔱

When explaining how gold is made. Finding the supernova or neutron stars. Closest to us, that delivered to our solar system.

Please use the BCE/CE notations.

65 ft cube meaning cube with 65 ft side or cube with 65 cy ft volume???

/Those calming vids at bed time /

The moon 🌚 landing was a SCAM!

A very informative video, as Gold (Oro) and it's uses throughout history as been at the forefront of civilization driving the innovation of the genius of the human mind. But it's connection to those 'gods' of early civilization from India to Egypt was missing.

I like silver better and it is way more useful ... Silver is the most electrically conductive and heat conductive and is also the most reflective metal ...

I am experiencing the wrong video. The narrator is talking about engineering. Okay, now we are on the right track......😊

I stopped watching after reading comments that the question in the title isn't answered.

Gold properties, or gold history?

I don't want your worthless gold.

This girl mess up a good video

Stock footage hero

The Pyramids were Smelters for Gold.

what makes it unique is its just one of many elements on the periodic table, a soft metal. what makes it rare on earth is it can only be created in a massaive interstellar collision resulting in both stars ripping each other apart in an explosion on a galactic scake that lasts hundreds if billions of years to end up in the earth

"Why are the properties of gold so unique?" You will not discover that in this video. Interesting history of gold's uses, but the title's question is not answered here.

Egyptian gold doesnt even look like gold. All brassy.

Thank you.

Is this History Channel crap? Here comes the BS and aliens!

I think these "experts" are actors.

Very interesting, after a slow start. (Title is more than a little misleading!)

The idea that gold comes from outer space seems like a cop out for scientists who have yet to discover how it's formed within the earth itself.

UM HATE TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE BUT THERE IS NO OUTER SPACE SO NO

the reason it has unique properties is a result of the fact that each element on the periodic table has it's own unique properties; gold is an element, thus, it too has unique properties.

Nothing to learn here, the title is misleading.

I guess glory hole means 2 things 😅

When it comes down to it the person with the most valuable stuff in the future will be certain gasses water uncontaminated soil and food

It's important to note that the gold panning process we see today is not actually ancient at all. Finding tiny bits of gold in waterways is not how the ancient people generally found it. They either mined hard rock, or were lucky enough to find big enough chunks to pick(these days called sniping). When the pioneers first went West to places like California; the closest thing they had were horns that were carved to work as a sort of simple pan. They would just put some material inside the horn and slosh it out. Eventually this evolved into a pan like we know these days, but this didn't happen until at least the 1870s.

I have the fever
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I love gold

All these statistics are incorrect..truth is gold is completely free and everyone was gathering it . including all other minerals and elements nature has to offer are all free and easy to get in abundance of your wildest dreams even Petroleum and gas all free from the ocean.. don't believe me? Look it up.