{"id":1814,"date":"2026-07-30T22:01:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T19:23:21","slug":"what-is-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/en\/what-is-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Gold? The Science Behind the World's Most Trusted Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gold is a chemical element with the symbol <strong>Au<\/strong> (from the Latin <em>aurum<\/em>) and atomic number 79. It is one of the densest metals on Earth at 19.3 g\/cm\u00b3 \u2014 a standard 1 kilogram bar is only about the size of a smartphone. Gold is also remarkably soft and malleable: a single gram can be hammered into a sheet of one square metre.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What makes gold truly special is its chemical stability. It is one of the least reactive elements known: it does not rust, tarnish or corrode, and it is untouched by air, water and almost all acids. A gold bar minted today will look exactly the same in a thousand years. This permanence is the scientific foundation of gold's role as a store of value across every civilisation in history.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gold is also genuinely rare \u2014 and cosmically old. It cannot be created by any chemical process; astrophysicists believe most of it was forged in collisions of neutron stars billions of years ago. All the gold ever mined in human history would fit into a cube of roughly 22 metres per side.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investment gold is refined to a purity of 999.9\/1000, known as <em>fine gold<\/em> or 24 carat. Every bar we sell at AurumX is produced by LBMA-accredited refiners and arrives sealed, certified and serial-numbered.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article is for general information only and is not financial advice.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goud is een scheikundig element met het symbool Au (van het Latijnse aurum) en atoomnummer 79. Met 19,3\u00a0g\/cm\u00b3 is het een van de dichtste metalen op aarde \u2014 een standaard kilobaar is maar ongeveer zo groot als een smartphone. Goud is ook opvallend zacht en kneedbaar: \u00e9\u00e9n gram kan worden uitgeslagen tot een vel van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gold-guide"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aurumx.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}