Gold Nanoparticles – Strange properties and applications

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Gold nanoparticles exhibit extraordinary properties quite unlike those of the bulk metal. These properties can be exploited in a variety of assay applications, including lateral flow tests, microscopy, flow cytometry and FRET assays. There are also a number of therapeutic applications, especially in the field of cancer. This free and exciting webinar focuses on the … Read more

Trade in Gold Dust – Oroville, California Chinese Temple

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“Many Chinese merchant in gold-rush era Oroville traded in gold dust. Indeed, gold dust was also the local currency.” GOOGLE MAPhttps://www.google.com/maps/place/Orovill​e+Chinese+Temple/@39.5135642,-121.5639446​,17z

The Mysterious Golden Hats of the ‘Ancient Wizards’ – Ancient Architects

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Described as four cone-shaped golden hats from the Bronze Age, each of the four hats was actually discovered in a different location – 3 in Germany and 1 in France. Although separated by space, the artefacts are all thought to originate from a similar time, the Bronze Age, some time between 1400 and 800 BC. … Read more

Thoth & Hermes Through to the Magna Carta & US Constitution — Weights Measures

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Thoth, Hermes, civilization and the law. Ancient symbolism, law and gods related to weights and measures and although the gods may have gone the importance of their purpose remains as valid to us now as it did in the ancient past. Transcript

Colors, Pigments, Dyes

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Purifying ores to metals such as gold, as well as making colours for cloth and painting is the work of chemists. The ancient past was no different. The records of the Egyptian sciences are not so clear where they do remain but the heirs of this ancient knowledge such as the Greeks and Romans did … Read more