Gold is a highly sought-after precious metal that throughout virtually all of recorded history has been used as money. Gold may also refer to: [edit] Businesses [edit] In economics - Gold coin, one of the oldest forms of money
- Gold as an investment, the use of the precious metal gold as an investment primarily for the purpose of capital preservation.
- Gold certificate, a certificate proving ownership of gold
- Gold Fixing, a procedure by which the price of gold is set on the London market
- Gold gram, the amount of value represented by exactly one gram of gold
- Gold standard, monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold
- Nazi gold, assets in gold transferred by Nazi Germany to overseas banks during the Second World War
- e-gold, a digital gold currency, operated by Gold & Silver Reserve Inc.
[edit] In science and technology [edit] In chemistry - Colloidal gold, suspension of sub-micrometre-sized particles of gold in a fluid
- Gold chalcogenides, gold compounds with anions from periodic table group 16
- Gold halide, metal halide
- Gold plating, method of depositing a thin layer of gold on the surface of other metal
- Rose gold, gold and copper alloy widely used for specialized jewelry due to its reddish color
- White gold, alloy of gold and at least one white metal
[edit] In color theory [edit] In technology - AntiVirus Gold, a piece of malware that poses as a legitimate anti-virus program
- Gold Box, a series of computer role-playing games produced by SSI
- Gold release, the final development stage in software engineering
- GOLD (parser), an open source Backus-Naur form parser
- Gold (linker), a linker designed to be faster than GNU ld
- Gold box (phreaking), a box whose function is to create a bridge between two telephone lines
- Gold code, a code used in telecommunications
[edit] In food and drink [edit] In entertainment [edit] Literature - Gold album, an album or single that has sold a minimum number of copies
- Gold CD, a compact disc where gold is used instead of aluminium
- Gold (band), a French band
- Gold (album series), a series of double-CD compilations released by Universal music
- "Gold", a song from John Stewart's 1979 album Bombs Away Dream Babies
- "Gold" (Spandau Ballet song), 1983
- "Gold" (Prince song), 1995
- "Gold" (B'z song), 2001
- "Gold" (Beverley Knight song), 2002
- "Gold", a 2009 single by Antoine Clamaran
[edit] Television [edit] Video games [edit] Other uses - Acapulco gold, a potent strain of marijuana originating in Mexico
- Gold, California, a former settlement in Madera County, California
- Gold, California, former name of Fine Gold, California, a community in Madera County
- Gold Base, international headquarters of the Church of Scientology
- Gold Country, a region in the central-and-north-eastern part of California, United States
- Gold (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language hieroglyph
- Gold medal, gold-plated medal which represents the highest award for an achievement in a non-military field
- Gold-plating, practice of national bodies exceeding the terms of European Community directives when implementing them into national law
- Gold Silver Bronze command structure, hierarchical framework used by emergency services in the UK
- Gold teeth, a form of dental prosthesis
- Gold, an old name for Nanai people, used in 19th century literature
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