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Is Pure Gold Transparant?

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Is Pure Gold Transparant?
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RE: Is Pure Gold Transparant?
July 4, 2015 at 8:01 pm
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say any pure gold surface sufficiently thick to be described as "paved" is not going to be transparent.
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RE: Is Pure Gold Transparant?
July 4, 2015 at 8:10 pm (This post was last modified: July 4, 2015 at 8:10 pm by SteelCurtain.)
It's not just that the gold on an astronaut's visor is very thin, it's also that it has a mesh lattice. Gauss style.
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RE: Is Pure Gold Transparant?
July 4, 2015 at 8:35 pm
It really doesn't matter.  If the streets were paved with gold the fucking priests would be digging them up and putting it in their pockets.
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RE: Is Pure Gold Transparant?
July 4, 2015 at 8:49 pm (This post was last modified: July 4, 2015 at 9:12 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 4, 2015 at 8:10 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: It's not just that the gold on an astronaut's visor is very thin, it's also that it has a mesh lattice. Gauss style.

here is a discussion of the degree of optical transparency vs thickness of electrodeposited platinum film, gold is similar.

http://www.researchgate.net/post/How_thi...ansparency
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RE: Is Pure Gold Transparant?
July 4, 2015 at 8:50 pm (This post was last modified: July 4, 2015 at 8:51 pm by Anomalocaris.)
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RE: Is Pure Gold Transparant?
July 4, 2015 at 9:52 pm
If God really wanted to impress, he's make the streets paved with astatine.

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RE: Is Pure Gold Transparant?
July 4, 2015 at 10:59 pm
Indeed.

"Elemental astatine has never been viewed because a mass large enough to be seen by the naked eye would be immediately vaporized by its radioactive heating. It has yet to be determined if this obstacle could be overcome with sufficient cooling."

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RE: Is Pure Gold Transparant?
July 6, 2015 at 7:54 pm
(July 4, 2015 at 8:01 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
(July 4, 2015 at 4:44 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Min,

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RE: Is Pure Gold Transparant?
July 6, 2015 at 8:02 pm
(July 4, 2015 at 8:01 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'm gonna go out on a limb and say any pure gold surface sufficiently thick to be described as "paved" is not going to be transparent.
That's a firm limb you're standing on.
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RE: Is Pure Gold Transparant?
July 6, 2015 at 8:07 pm
(July 4, 2015 at 8:10 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: It's not just that the gold on an astronaut's visor is very thin, it's also that it has a mesh lattice. Gauss style.
Well it would have to have something to protect the astronaut from space debris. Pure gold is too weak to suffice.. Forget about walking on it even for ghosts.
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