Thomas.born 1920, Austrian-born astronomer, working in England and the US: with Bondi and Hoyle he proposed the steady-state theory of the universe Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005 No other metal is named as frequently in the Bible as gold. The Bibl...
One of the special skills developed by the Egyptians was the adding of gold to glass objects. They found a way to use gold to make glass a beautiful ruby-red color. The glass became known as gold ruby glass. Gold is also mentioned in a number of places in the Bible. A passage in...
Gold is the first, and most frequently mentioned metal in the Bible, as at Genesis 2:11. From the beginning, it has been a noble metal, highly valued for its weight, rarity, durable non-tarnishing luster, shimmering beauty, ductility, and malleability. A number of Old Testament Hebrew ter...
Later, in Genesis 3, the Bible records the curses that Adam and Eve incurred as a result of their decision to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. One of these curses was physical death; eventually, they would return to the dust from which they came. In ...
the presence of gold in metallic substances, giving rise to the term 'acid test'. Gold dissolves in alkaline solutions of cyanide, which are used in mining and electroplating. Gold also dissolves in mercury, forming amalgam alloys, and as the gold acts simply as a solute, this is not a ...
Gold is a soft and malleable metal, so it is often alloyed with other metals just to make the piece sturdier -- but, of course, that also usually means that the piece is cheaper to make! To calculate the purity of a gold alloy in carats, you take the total mass of gold in the pi...
The Bible mentions gold all over the place. In the old testament, there was the golden calf and the Jewish temple had a golden menorah. In the New Testament, the wise men brought a gift of gold to Jesus, and of course, there is the Golden Rule. ...
This showed him a means of solving the problem. … In his joy, he leapt out of the tub and, rushing naked towards his home, he cried out with a loud voice that he had found what he sought.” In Ivor Bulmer-Thomas, Selections Illustrating the History of Greek Mathematics (1939), 37...
gold of proper fineness, gold coins and/or other securities are brought into Argentine territory in the luggage of travellers or crew members or by other means, the Customs Office shall inform the National Tax Office and the Financial Intelligence Unit of the operations conducted in this connection...
In the view of the St. Louis Cardinals, gold means a little bit of all those things. With the Cardinals, gold is a standard that the franchise expects when it comes to its defense. And it isn’t something they just preach; they back it up with Gold Gloves. ...