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Gold ETFs: diversification?
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Ark_Welder wrote: »No, they do not contain the same atoms, they contain different atoms. If they contained the same atoms then they would be the same gold coin.
However, they may contain different atoms of the same element.
Unless, of course, anyone is able to prove the formulae that we are all made of the same piece of string that occupies a single point in the interdimensional wotsit.
Well I am reliably informed by an experienced metallurgist that gold does not corrode at all even over several millenniums.
Silver does tarnish, then after a long time does indeed corrode. It get eaten away. So the silver artifacts in museums that are thousands of years old are actually less atoms than the gold the same same age.The GFC used to stand for global financial crisis. Now it stands for the global financial catastrophe.0
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