This week my literacy group has been learning about the periodic table. I did research on gold, I found this easy but a wee bit hard. It took me about 20 minutes to fully complete it. Here’s the text.
Gold.
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As a lot of us may know that gold is one of the most expensive things in the world, But you may not know that gold’s scientific name is actually Aurum. Gold is also number 79 on the periodic table.
History:
Gold was originally found by the Egyptians around 2450 B.C. The find was credited to an Egyptian alchemist named Zosimos, He was mining for something else when he came across it, The Egyptians would use this gold to make jewelry for the rich. Here in New Zealand was discord gold in 1852 by Charles Ring.
Uses:
People use gold for a lot of different reasons like,
Medicine
Jewelry
Space exploration
Gold medals
Finance
Aerospace
Computers
Dentistry
In Space
And that’s only some of them.