Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "gold" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "gold" over time.
Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a bright-metallic-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal, a group 11 element, and one of the noble metals. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements, being the second lowest in the reactivity series, with only platinum ranked as less reactive. Gold is solid under standard conditions. Read more on Wikipedia