It's an interesting coincidence that tungsten is the same density as gold to three decimal places. Those gold bricks you see the bad guys riding off with in Westerns weigh something like 70 pounds each, and if real would crush the poor horses. In fact, it's almost twice as dense as lead. Most people see only tiny amounts of gold at a time, which makes them miss one of its most remarkable properties: It is incredibly dense. Gold, what can you say? Gold is gold, the standard against which all other metals are judged, the definition of value for millennia, the metal of kings.

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