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6 Use the following notes to write about ‘Gold\ Write one complete sentence only for each numbered set of notes, using connecting words and phrases as appropriate. You may add words and change the form of words given in the notes but do not add any extra information. The first point has been expanded for you as an example (0).

Gold

0 Characteristics of gold: soft, heavy, yellow metal — not rust — madę very thin sheets/wire

66    Morę characteristics of gold: not easily react other substances, unaffected temp. changes, resists acids

67    Location of goldmines: Half world’s gold, South Africa, large deposits Russia, only tiny amounts Britain

68    Purity of gold: pure gold 24 carats, rather soft, jewellery 18/22 carats, mixed other metals (copper), to strengthen

69    Uses of gold: apart jewellery, dentists, safe inside human body, + scientists, engineers, vałue special characteristics

70    The search for gold: desire gold, important stimulus European exploration America 16/17c. + 19c. big gold rush California 1849, Australia 1851, rapid pop. increases in those areas

71    A gold record: Australia 1872, single gold nugget 214 kg largest ever, after refining 85 kg pure gold

72    Gold as money: govts no longer support currencies with gold, no gold coins in circulation, central banks ali countries, very large stocks of gold, well-protected vaults

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