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I've been doing some research lately on gold because I decided to invest in it and wanted to know more about it. Even though it doesn't really have any bearing on the monetary/financial value to me (gold is gold), it's still an interesting material to know more about. I went to the wikipedia page and found out about this interesting property it has: aurophilicity. Basically, gold is attracted to itself in a way that no other element is, both in metal and molecular complex/compound form. This property is part of why it has other macro properties that we have come to know as gold such as divisibility, malleability, its yellow color, etc. Aurum is not just a yellow rock, it is an element set apart, unique, eternal. Gold is God's money.

I don't claim to understand many of the chemistry and physics concepts in depth, but I was able to gather enough from my entry level college chemistry and physics courses to make this collage. Hopefully Pan Man and others can expound upon it and share more knowledge that I didn't discover.
Here are the main sources, they are in the collage too:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF03215477.pdf
https://application.wiley-vch.de/books/sample/3527320296_c01.pdf