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LG Arena
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Wednesday
5/14/xxxx
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The Hydro At SECC
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Saturday
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Phones4u Arena (Formerly Manchester Arena)
Manchester, United Kingdom
Tuesday
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Liverpool Echo Arena
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Wednesday
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Motorpoint Arena (formerly Sheffield Arena)
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Friday
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Motorpoint Arena (formerly Sheffield Arena)
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Friday
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Phones4u Arena (Formerly Manchester Arena)
Manchester, United Kingdom
Saturday
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O2 Arena - London
London, United Kingdom
Tuesday
5/27/xxxx
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O2 Arena - London
London, United Kingdom
Wednesday
5/28/xxxx
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O2 Arena - London
London, United Kingdom
Friday
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O2 Arena - London
London, United Kingdom
Saturday
5/31/xxxx
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PNC Arena (Formerly RBC Center)
Raleigh, NC
Sunday
6/22/xxxx
7:00 PM
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Verizon Center - DC
Washington, DC
Tuesday
6/24/xxxx
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Verizon Center - DC
Washington, DC
Wednesday
6/25/xxxx
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Bridgestone Arena (Formerly Sommet Center)
Nashville, TN
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Philips Arena
Atlanta, GA
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Tampa Bay Times Forum
Tampa, FL
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BB&T Center (Formerly BankAtlantic Center)
Sunrise, FL
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7/2/xxxx
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American Airlines Arena
Miami, FL
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7/3/xxxx
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Odyssey Arena
Belfast, United Kingdom
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7/5/xxxx
6:30 PM
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Mohegan Sun Arena - CT
Uncasville, CT
Monday
7/7/xxxx
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Madison Square Garden
New York, NY
Wednesday
7/9/xxxx
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Prudential Center
Newark, NJ
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7/11/xxxx
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Prudential Center
Newark, NJ
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7/12/xxxx
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Centre Bell
Montreal, Canada
Tuesday
7/15/xxxx
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Canadian Tire Centre (formerly Scotiabank Place)
Ottawa, Canada
Wednesday
7/16/xxxx
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Air Canada Centre
Toronto, Canada
Friday
7/18/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Air Canada Centre
Toronto, Canada
Saturday
7/19/xxxx
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Air Canada Centre
Toronto, Canada
Monday
7/21/xxxx
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Consol Energy Center
Pittsburgh, PA
Tuesday
7/22/xxxx
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Barclays Center
Brooklyn, NY
Thursday
7/24/xxxx
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Barclays Center
Brooklyn, NY
Friday
7/25/xxxx
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TD Garden (Fleet Center)
Boston, MA
Friday
8/1/xxxx
7:30 PM
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TD Garden (Fleet Center)
Boston, MA
Saturday
8/2/xxxx
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Wells Fargo Center - PA
Philadelphia, PA
Monday
8/4/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Wells Fargo Center - PA
Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday
8/5/xxxx
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United Center
Chicago, IL
Thursday
8/7/xxxx
7:30 PM
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United Center
Chicago, IL
Friday
8/8/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Van Andel Arena
Grand Rapids, MI
Sunday
8/10/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Palace Of Auburn Hills
Auburn Hills, MI
Monday
8/11/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Nationwide Arena
Columbus, OH
Wednesday
8/13/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Quicken Loans Arena (formerly Gund Arena)
Cleveland, OH
Thursday
8/14/xxxx
7:30 PM
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KFC Yum! Center
Louisville, KY
Saturday
8/16/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Scottrade Center
Saint Louis, MO
Sunday
8/17/xxxx
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Sprint Center
Kansas City, MO
Tuesday
8/19/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Pinnacle Bank Arena
Lincoln, NE
Wednesday
8/20/xxxx
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Target Center
Minneapolis, MN
Friday
8/22/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Fargodome
Fargo, ND
Saturday
8/23/xxxx
7:30 PM
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MTS Centre
Winnipeg, Canada
Tuesday
8/26/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Credit Union Centre - Saskatchewan Place
Saskatoon, Canada
Thursday
8/28/xxxx
7:00 PM
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Scotiabank Saddledome (Formerly Pengrowth Saddledome)
Calgary, Canada
Friday
8/29/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Rexall Place
Edmonton, Canada
Sunday
8/31/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Rexall Place
Edmonton, Canada
Monday
9/1/xxxx
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Rogers Arena
Vancouver, Canada
Tuesday
9/9/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Rogers Arena
Vancouver, Canada
Wednesday
9/10/xxxx
7:00 PM
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Moda Center at the Rose Quarter (formerly Rose Garden)
Portland, OR
Friday
9/12/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Tacoma Dome
Tacoma, WA
Saturday
9/13/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Honda Center (formerly Arrowhead Pond)
Anaheim, CA
Tuesday
9/16/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Honda Center (formerly Arrowhead Pond)
Anaheim, CA
Wednesday
9/17/xxxx
7:00 PM
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Staples Center
Los Angeles, CA
Friday
9/19/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Staples Center
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday
9/20/xxxx
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SAP Center (formerly HP Pavilion)
San Jose, CA
Monday
9/22/xxxx
7:30 PM
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SAP Center (formerly HP Pavilion)
San Jose, CA
Tuesday
9/23/xxxx
7:00 PM
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Jobing.com Arena (formerly Glendale Arena)
Glendale, AZ
Thursday
9/25/xxxx
7:30 PM
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MGM Grand Garden Arena
Las Vegas, NV
Friday
9/26/xxxx
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EnergySolutions Arena (formerly The Delta Center)
Salt Lake City, UT
Monday
9/29/xxxx
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Pepsi Center - Denver
Denver, CO
Tuesday
9/30/xxxx
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American Airlines Center
Dallas, TX
Thursday
10/2/xxxx
7:00 PM
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American Airlines Center
Dallas, TX
Friday
10/3/xxxx
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Fedex Forum
Memphis, TN
Sunday
10/5/xxxx
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Bank Of Oklahoma Center
Tulsa, OK
Monday
10/6/xxxx
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Smoothie King Center (Formerly New Orleans Arena)
New Orleans, LA
Wednesday
10/8/xxxx
7:00 PM
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Toyota Center - TX
Houston, TX
Friday
10/10/xxxx
7:30 PM
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Toyota Center - TX
Houston, TX
Saturday
10/11/xxxx
7:30 PM
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EINVLKFJDLKFJGold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. It is a dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal with an attractive, bright yellow color and luster that is maintained without tarnishing in air or water. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements, solid under standard conditions. The metal therefore occurs often in free elemental (native) form, as nuggets or grains in rocks, in veins and in alluvial deposits. Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, such as with tellurium as calaverite, sylvanite aGold resists attacks by individual acids, but it can be dissolved by aqua regia (nitro-hydrochloric acid), so named because it dissolves gold. Gold also dissolves in alkaline solutions of cyanide, which have been used in mining. It dissolves in mercury, forming amalgam alloys; is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals, a property that has long been used to confirm the presence of gold in items, giving rise toThis metal has been a valuable and highly sought-after precious metal for coinage, jewelry, and other arts since long before the beginning of recorded history. Gold standards have sometimes been monetary policies, but were widely supplanted by fiat currency starting in the xxxxs. The last gold certificate and gold coin currencies were issued in the U.S. in xxxx. In Europe, most countries left the gold standard with the start of World War I in xxxx and, with huge war debts, did not return to gold asBesides its widespread monetary and symbolic functions, gold has many practical uses in dentistry, electronics, and other fields. Its high malleability, ductility, resistance to corrosion and most other chemical reactions, and conductivity of electricity has led to many uses, including electric wiring, colored-glass production,Most of the Earth's gold probably lies at its core, the metal's high density having made it sink there in the planet's youth. Virtually all discovered gold is considered to have been deposited later by meteorites that contained the element,[4][5][6][7][8] with the asteroid that formed Vredefort crater having been implicated in the formation of the largest gold mining region on earth, Witwatersrand basin.[9][The symbol Au is from the Latin: aurum, according to some sources meaning "shining dawn",[15] from Sabine ausum "glowing dawn"[16] although according to definitions within Latin dictionaries the meaning of the word aurum is the same as today's use of gold in reference to the metal.[17] The disagreement between definitions is possibly due to the accumulation of evidence from archaeology of the original anciency of the metal in civilization; in reference to "the dawn of civilization",[18] and in this respect has become the adopted modern meaning, disassociated from the original etymological LaGold is the most malleable of all metals; a single gram can be beaten into a sheet of 1 square meter, or an ounce into 300 square feet. Gold leaf can be beaten thin enough to become transparent. The transmitted light appears greenish blue, because gold strongly reflects yellow and red.[20] Such semi-transparent sheets also strongly reflect infrared light, making them useful as infrared (radiant heat) shields in visors of heat-resistant suits, and in sun-visors for spGold readily dissolves in mercury at room temperature to form an amalgam, and forms alloys with many other metals at higher temperatures. These alloys can be produced to modify the hardness and other metallurgical properties, to control melting point or to create exotic colors.[22] Gold is a good conductor of heat and electricity and reflects infrared radiation strongly. Chemically, it is unaffected by air, moisture and most corrosive reagents, and is therefore well suited for use in coins and jewelry and as a protective coating on other, more reactive metals. However, it is not chemically inert. Gold is almost insoluble, but can be dissolved in aqua regia or solutions of sodium or potassium cyanideWhereas most other pure metals are gray or silvery white, gold is yellow. This color is determined by the density of loosely bound (valence) electrons; those electrons oscillate as a collective "plasma" medium described in terms of a quasiparticle called plasmon. The frequency of these oscillations lies in the ultraviolet range for most metals, but it falls into the visible range for gold due to subtle relativistic effects that affect the orbitals around gold atoms.[24][25] Similar effects impart a golden hue to metallic caCommon colored gold alloys such as rose gold can be created by the addition of various amounts of copper and silver, as indicated in the triangular diagram to the left. Alloys containing palladium or nickel are also important in commercial jewelry as these produce white gold alloys. Less commonly, addition of manganese, aluminium, iron, indium and other elements can produce more unusual colors of gold for various appGold has only one stable isotope, 197Au, which is also its only naturally occurring isotope. Thirty-six radioisotopes have been synthesized ranging in atomic mass from 169 to 205. The most stable of these is 195Au with a half-life of 186.1 days. The least stable is 171Au, which decays by proton emission with a half-life of 30 µs. Most of gold's radioisotopes with atomic masses below 197 decay by some combination of proton emission, a decay, and ß+ decay. The exceptions are 195Au, which decays by electron capture, and 196Au, which decays most often by electron capture (93%) with a minor ß- decay path (7%).[26] All of gold's radioisotopes with atomic masses above 197 decay The first coins containing gold were struck in Lydia, Asia Minor, around 600 BC.[28] The talent coin of gold in use during the periods of Grecian history both before and during the time of the life of Homer weighed between 8.42 and 8.75 grams.[29] From an earlier preference in using silver, European economies re-established the minting of gold as coinage during the thirteenth and Bills (that mature into gold coin) and gold certificates (convertible into gold coin at the issuing bank) added to the circulating stock of gold standard money in most 19th century industrial economies. In preparation for World War I the warring nations moved to fractional gold standards, inflating their currencies to finance the war effort. Post-war, the victorious countries, most notably Britain, gradually restored gold-convertibility, but international flows of gold via bills of exchange remained embargoed; international shipments were made exclusively for bilateral trades or to After World War II gold was replaced by a system of nominally convertible currencies related by fixed exchange rates following the Bretton Woods system. Gold standards and the direct convertibility of currencies to gold have been abandoned by world governments, led in xxxx by the United States' refusal to redeem its dollars in gold. Fiat currency now fills most monetary roles. Switzerland was the last country to tie its currency to gold; it backed 40% of its value until the Swiss joined the International Monetary Fund inCentral banks continue to keep a portion of their liquid reserves as gold in some form, and metals exchanges such as the London Bullion Market Association still clear transactions denominated in gold, including future delivery contracts. Today, gold mining output is declining.[32] With the sharp growth of economies in the 20th century, and increasing foreign exchange, the world's gold reserves and their trading market have become a small fraction of all markets and fixed exchange rates of currencies to gold have been replaced by floating prices for gold and gold future contract. Though the gold stock grows by only 1 or 2% per year, very little metal is irretrievably consumed. Inventory above ground would satisfy many decades of industrial and even artisan uses at Although the prices of some platinum group metals can be much higher, gold has long been considered the most desirable of precious metals, and its value has been used as the standard for many currencies. Gold has been used as a symbol for purity, value, royalty, and particularly roles that combine these properties. Gold as a sign of wealth and prestige was ridiculed by Thomas More in his treatise Utopia. On that imaginary island, gold is so abundant that it is used to make chains for slaves, tabFourteen- and eighteen-carat gold alloys with silver alone appear greenish-yellow and are referred to as green gold. White gold alloys can be made with palladium or nickel. White 18-carat gold containing 17.3% nickel, 5.5% zinc and 2.2% copper is silvery in appearance. Nickel is toxic, however, and its release from nickel white gold is controlled by legislaAlternative white gold alloys are available based on palladium, silver and other white metals,[37] but the palladium alloys are more expensive than those using nickel. High-carat white gold alloys are far more resistant to corrosion than are either pure silver or sterling silver. The Japanese craft of Mokume-gane exploits the color contrasts between laminated colored gold alloys to produce decorative wIn medieval times, gold was often seen as beneficial for the health, in the belief that something so rare and beautiful could not be anything but healthy. Even some modern esotericists and forms of alternative medicine assign metallic gold a healing power.[42] Some gold salts do have anti-inflammatory properties and are used as pharmaceuticals in the treatment of arthritis and other similar conditions. Gold based injections have been explored as a means to help to reduce the pain and swelling of rheumatoid arthritis and tuberculosis.[43] However, only salts and radioisotopes of gold are of pharmacological value, as elemental (metallic) gold is inert to all chemicals it encounGold alloys are used in restorative dentistry, especially in tooth restorations, such as crowns and permanent bridges. The gold alloys' slight malleability facilitates the creation of a superior molar mating surface with other teeth and produces results that are generally more satisfactory than those produced by the creation of porcelain crowns. The use of gold crowns in more prominent teeth such as incisors is favored in some cultures andColloidal gold preparations (suspensions of gold nanoparticles) in water are intensely red-colored, and can be made with tightly controlled particle sizes up to a few tens of nanometers across by reduction of gold chloride with citrate or ascorbate ions. Colloidal gold is used in research applications in medicine, biology and materials science. The technique of immunogold labeling exploits the ability of the gold particles to adsorb protein molecules onto their surfaces. Colloidal gold particles coated with specific antibodies can be used as probes for the presence and position of antigens on the surfaces of cells.[44] In ultrathin sections of tissues viewed by electron microscopy, the immunogold labels appear as extremely dense round spots at the position oGold, or alloys of gold and palladium, are applied as conductive coating to biological specimens and other non-conducting materials such as plastics and glass to be viewed in a scanning electron microscope. The coating, which is usually applied by sputtering with an argon plasma, has a triple role in this application. Gold's very high electrical conductivity drains electrical charge to earth, and Gold solder is used for joining the components of gold jewelry by high-temperature hard soldering or brazing. If the work is to be of hallmarking quality, gold solder must match the carat weight of the work, and alloy formulas are manufactured in most industry-standard carat weights to color match yellow and white gold. Gold solder is usually made in at least three melting-point ranges referred to as Easy, Medium and Hard. By using the hard, high-melting point solder first, followed by solders with progressively lower melting points, goldsmiths can assemble complex items with several separate The concentration of free electrons in gold metal is 5.90×xxxx cm-3. Gold is highly conductive to electricity, and has been used for electrical wiring in some high-energy applications (only silver and copper are more conductive per volume, but gold has the advantage of corrosion resistance). For example, gold electrical wires were used during some of the Manhattan Project's atomic experiments, but large high current silver wires were used in the calutron isotope separator magnets iThough gold is attacked by free chlorine, its good conductivity and general resistance to oxidation and corrosion in other environments (including resistance to non-chlorinated acids) has led to its widespread industrial use in the electronic era as a thin layer coating electrical connectors, thereby ensuring good connection. For example, gold is used in the connectors of the more expensive electronics cables, such as audio, video and USB cables. The benefit of using gold over other connector metals such as tin in these applications has been debated; gold connectors are often criticized by audio-visual experts as unnecessary for most consumers and seen as simply a marketing ploy. However, the use of gold in other applications in electronic sliding contacts in highly humid or corrosive atmospheres, and in use for contacts with a very high failure cost (certain computers, communications equipment, spacecraft, jet aircraft engines) remains veGold artifacts found at the Nahal Kana cave cemetery dated during the xxxxs, showed these to be from within the Chalcolithic, and considered the earliest find from the Levant (Gopher et al. xxxx).[60] Gold artifacts in the Balkans also appear from the 4th millennium BC, such as those found in the Varna Necropolis near Lake Varna in Bulgaria, thought by one source (La Niece xxxx) to be the earliest "well-dated" find of gold artifacts.[61] Gold artifacts such as the golden hats and the Nebra disk appeared in Central Europe from the 2nd millennium BC Egyptian hieroglyphs from as early as xxxx BC describe gold, which king Tushratta of the Mitanni claimed was "more plentiful than dirt" in Egypt.[62] Egypt and especially Nubia had the resources to make them major gold-producing areas for much of history. The earliest known map is known as the Turin Papyrus Map and shows the plan of a gold mine in Nubia together with indications of the local geology. The primitive working methods are described by both Strabo and Diodorus Siculus, and included fire-setting. Large mines were also present across the Red Sea in what is nowThe legend of the golden fleece may refer to the use of fleeces to trap gold dust from placer deposits in the ancient world. Gold is mentioned frequently in the Old Testament, starting with Genesis 2:11 (at Havilah), the story of In Roman metallurgy, new methods for extracting gold on a large scale were developed by introducing hydraulic mining methods, especially in Hispania from 25 BC onwards and in Dacia from 106 AD onwards. One of their largest mines was at Las Medulas in León (Spain), where seven long aqueducts enabled them to sluice most of a large alluvial deposit. The mines at Rosia Montana in Transylvania were also very large, and until very recently, still mined by opencast methods. They also exploited smaller deposits in Britain, such as placer and hard-rock deposits at Dolaucothi. The various methods they used are well described by Pliny the Elder in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia written towards the end During Mansa Musa's (ruler of the Mali Empire from xxxx to xxxx) hajj to Mecca in xxxx, he passed through Cairo in July xxxx, and was reportedly accompanied by a camel train that included thousands of people and nearly a hundred camels where he gave away so much gold that it depressed the price in Egypt for over a decade.[64] A contemporary Arab hThe Portuguese overseas expansion started in xxxx with the taking of Ceuta, to control the gold trade coming across the desert. Although the caravan trade routes were then diverted, the Portuguese continued expansing southwards along the coast and eventually buying the gold directly (or less indirectly) from the Africans in the Gulf of Guinea.[ciTheThere is an age-old tradition of biting gold to test its authenticity. Although this is certainly not a professional way of examining gold, the bite test was not to check if the coin was gold (90% gold coins are fairly strong) but to see if the coin was gold plated lead. A lead coin would be very soft and thus teeth marks would result. Fake gold coins were a common problem before xxxx so weighing a coin and also sliding a coin through a "counterfeit detector" slot was common (making a lead coin thicker would add weight thus why slide it through a measured slot). Most establishments (especially US Western saloons) would never accept a gold (or silver) coin of high value before weighing such an item.[citation needed] European exploration of the Americas was fueled in no small part by reports of the gold ornaments displayed in great profusion by Native American peoples, especially in Central America, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. The Aztecs regarded gold as literally the product of the gods, calling it "god excrement" (teocuitlatl in Nahuatl), and after Montezuma was killed, most of this gold was shipped to Spain.[66] However, for the indigenous peoples of North America gold was considered useless and they saw much greater value in other minerals which were directly related to their utility, such as obsidian, flint, and slate.[67]tation needed]istorian remarked: the first century AD.The Golden Calf and many parts of the temple including the Menorah and the golden altar. In the New Testament, it is included with the gifts of the magi in the first chapters of Matthew. The Book of Revelation 21:21 describes the city of New Jerusalem as having streets "made of pure gold, clear as crystal". Exploitation of gold in the south-east corner of the Black Sea is said to date from the time of Midas, and this gold was important in the establishment of what is probably the world's earliest coinage in Lydia around 610 BC.[63] From the 6th or 5th century BC, the Chu (state) circulated the Ying Yuan, one kind of square gold coin. Saudi Arabia.Bronze Age.ry common.[57]n the project.soldered joints.its very high density provides stopping power for electrons in the electron beam, helping to limit the depth to which the electron beam penetrates the specimen. This improves definition of the position and topography of the specimen surface and increases the spatial resolution of the image. Gold also produces a high output of secondary electrons when irradiated by an electron beam, and these low-energy electrons are the most commonly used signal source used in the scanning electron microscope.[46]f the antigen.[45] discouraged in others.ters inside the body.ood-grain effects.tion in Europe.[37]leware, and lavatory seats. When ambassadors from other countries arrive, dressed in ostentatious gold jewels and badges, the Utopians mistake them for menial servants, paying homage instead to the most modestlyModern bullion coins for investment or collector purposes do not require good mechanical wear properties; they are typically fine gold at 24k, although the American Gold Eagle and the British gold sovereign continue to be minted in 22k metal in historical tradition, and the South African Krugerand, first released in xxxx, is also 22k.[36] The special issue Canadian Gold Maple Leaf coin contains the highest purity gold of any bullion coin, at 99.999% or 0.xxxx9, while the popular issue Canadian Gold Maple Leaf coin has a puEighteen-carat gold containing 25% copper is found in antique and Russian jewelry and has a distinct, though not dominant, copper cast, creating rose gold. Fourteen-carat gold-copper alloy is nearly identical in color to certain bronze alloys, and both may be used to produce police and other badges. Blue gold can be made by alloying with iron and purple gold can be made by alloying with aluminium, although rarely done except in specialized jewelry. Blue gold is more brittle and therefore more difficult to work with when making jewelry.[37]rity of 99.99%. dressed of their party.current prices. xxxx.[31]pay war reparations. centuries.[30]by ß- decay.[27]lications.[22]esium., for example.acesuits.[21]tin.[19]10][11][12] and gold leafing. a medium of exchange. the term acid test.nd krennerite.