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When salt was gold: The evolution of two commodities An ounce of salt could once be traded for an ounce of gold. Now, the ...
An ounce of salt could once be traded for an ounce of gold. Now, the idea is laughable, with the cost of gold reaching over $2,000 per ounce while 26 ounces of salt is valued at just $1.
In addition to poultry, fluorine also reacts with gold and oxygen to form gold (V) fluoride – Au 2 F 10 – a gold salt. And while neither hydrochloric acid nor nitric acid (which is much stronger) will ...
An ounce of salt could once be traded for an ounce of gold. Now, the idea is laughable, with the cost of gold reaching over $2,000 per ounce while 26 ounces of salt is valued at just $1.