Where does gold come from? - David Lunney

the animation is so adorable

TED-Ed: We can manufacture gold! also TED-Ed: We actually cannot, but hypothetically yes!

The ancient Aztecs called gold "the sweat of the sun". Seems they knew what they were talking about

Him: Gold is about 20x denser than water Me: Laughs while watching duck tales on tv

This video ends on such a happy note. "Oh, and if a star dies close enough to us we could either get rich or completely die out!"

Everybody knows that gold comes from the end of a rainbow.

Well done. When the very young earth was still forming and molten, most of the gold that arrived settled deep within its mantle and core because of its relative weight and although moderate amounts of stirring have occurred, most of it is still down there. Occasionally volcanic activity lifts some into the crust mixed with many other heavy elements (magma) and even some of it rarely makes it to the surface (mixed in the lava). Additionally, cracks in the crust (earthquakes) permit hot acid water to flow toward the surface, slowly depositing dissolved minerals in these cracks (such as quartz and gold) as it cools. Most quartz and hot water veins sadly brought no gold with it (those quartz veins are called "bull" quartz) and sometimes this hot acid water flowed toward the surface too fast (steeper angle than 67 degrees) to permit the gold to settle (precipitate) out and it remained diluted in the 3 to 5 parts per million concentration. So, every time you hear of an earthquake deep within the crust, just think more gold may be heading near the surface for you to find some day.

Two notes. First, to the best of my knowledge, the majority of gold and other heavier elements in the universe is produced not in supernovas but in much more rare events - neutron star merges. Second, all gold that we mine actually came to Earth on meteorites over billions of years of its development, since the original gold, platinum, and other heavy elements present during the formation of the planet should have sunk into its core.

"Diamonds have been crushred for like a million years." "Gold is literally made from space explosions."

Medieval alchemist: "where did that 3km long particle accelerator come from?"

Can I invest in Gold? Any specific guide please?

Beautifully imagined and animated ❤️

First, the Server generates some chunks, and then we find them. Make sure to use an Iron Pickaxe.

am i the only one who felt bad for the alchemist

Beautiful story! Humbling to think that a gold necklace came from the heart of a dying star.

This was excellent and beautiful. One interesting side note, attempting to make gold this way will most likely contaminate it with radioactive gold as well. This is one way you would know it was "manufactured". Au-197 is the only stable isotope, and there are many radioactive ones. If you were to transmute some other element into gold, you'd very likely have contaminated any gold that you made with radioactive isotopes of gold.

"Did you know that gold is extraterrestrial?" < well it's been on earth since it formation billions of years ago, so it's as "extraterrestrial" as we are, or anything on earth actually.

I think they are missing the more important question: could Scrooge McDuck really swim in one of those Olympic swimming pools full of gold? Sadly, the world may never know.

THE MUSIC FOR THIS VIDEO IS JUST ON POINT!

This is the best animated learning I have ever encountered!!!