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Gold is a highly sought-after precious metal that for many centuries has been used as money.

Gold may also refer to:

Businesses

In economics

  • Gold coin, one of the oldest forms of money
  • Gold as an investment, the use of the precious metal gold as an investment
  • Gold certificate, a certificate proving ownership of gold
  • Gold Fixing, a procedure by which the price of gold is set on the London market
  • Gold gram, the amount of value represented by exactly one gram of gold
  • Gold standard, monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold
  • Nazi gold, assets in gold transferred by Nazi Germany to overseas banks during the Second World War
  • e-gold, a digital gold currency, operated by Gold & Silver Reserve Inc.

In science and technology

In chemistry

  • Colloidal gold, suspension of sub-micrometre-sized particles of gold in a fluid
  • Gold chalcogenides, gold compounds with anions from periodic table group 16
  • Gold halide, metal halide
  • Gold plating, method of depositing a thin layer of gold on the surface of other metal
  • Rose gold, gold and copper alloy widely used for specialized jewelry due to its reddish color
  • White gold, alloy of gold and at least one white metal

In color theory

In technology

  • AntiVirus Gold, a piece of malware that poses as a legitimate anti-virus program
  • Gold Box, a series of computer role-playing games produced by SSI
  • Gold release, the final development stage in software engineering
  • GOLD (parser), an open source Backus-Naur form parser
  • Gold (linker), a linker designed to be faster than GNU ld
  • Gold box (phreaking), a box whose function is to create a bridge between two telephone lines
  • Gold code, a code used in telecommunications

In entertainment

Film

Literature

Music

Television

Radio

In other entertainment

  • Booster Gold, fictional comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe
  • Pokémon Gold, a video game for the Nintendo Game Boy
    • Gold (Pokémon), main character in Pokémon Adventures and Pokémon Gold games

People

  • Andrew Gold (born 1951), singer and songwriter
  • Ernest Gold (1921 – 1999), composer and father of Andrew Gold
  • Jamie Gold (born 1969), winner of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event
  • Katie Gold (born 1978), pornographic actress
  • Lex Gold (born 1940), football administrator
  • Mike Gold (1893 – 1967), American literary critic
  • Nathan Gold (1663 - 1723), American colonial leader and deputy governor
  • Ted Gold (1947 – 1970), radical Columbia University student leader
  • Tom Gold, New York City Ballet soloist

Other uses

  • Acapulco gold, a potent strain of marijuana originating in Mexico
  • Gold Base, international headquarters of the Church of Scientology
  • Gold Country, a region in the central-and-north-eastern part of California, United States
  • Gold medal, gold-plated medal which represents the highest award for an achievement in a non-military field
  • Gold-plating, practice of national bodies exceeding the terms of European Community directives when implementing them into national law
  • Gold Silver Bronze command structure, hierarchical framework used by emergency services in the UK
  • Gold teeth, a form of dental prosthesis
  • Gold Prince, a Pony of the Americas sire
  • Gold, an old name for Nanai people, used in 19th century literature

See also