Unscratchable gold is harder than steel

Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 13:00 in Physics & Chemistry

No doubt, gold is a beautiful and popular precious metal. But it's also soft and tends to scratch easily. Now, a research team has created a very hard high-quality gold, which it recently unveiled.

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