Show Problem Child Qualities Of Gold Make It Valuable R Resistance of Yellow v Metal to Chemical Change Admired by Humans for Ages By Dr HOMER ICOY NEW YORK Jan an 27 21 AP Gold AP-Gold Gold today the subject of waning eCOnomic economic eco ceo theories and of ot economic wars Is Mother Natures Nature's problem thUd child She has never been able to do a thing with it For that reason man hu has I Why Is gold so precious Why Is La LaIt it t moro more valuable than a 4 piece of at ir Iron n a colored brightly stone a at roadside p pebble V The answer reverts reverb to the problem lem child ch character of at gold golds Elements Ele EI ments have bave chemical properties that vest them with personalities Gold has a definite one It 1 Is 19 an of the rocks rodes It resists the effects of ot natures nature's forces forces- winds weathering heat and cold It stands standA alone Gold 1 Is unsocial In in- It sh shuns ns chemical com bin bines Because It preserves its entity mUty so sowell well it f. f Is usually found In an uncombined state In the rocks or gravel de de- posits O. O And if U it U is l. united ted with other metals in the ore are the relationship Is not hard to sever lever All th these a qualities this qualities this disdain toward natural influences make influences make gold goldso so SD prized In the pure state it Is the most mon malleable mel mat leable and workable of metals It can be bo beaten to millimeter One gram gum can be stretched into a wire two miles mUes long One On ounce can be spread over square quare feet Gold f. f Is La extremely durable Impervious OWl ous to change It will have nothing to do with oxygen which unites with and destroys so many elements Gold occurs almost t everywhere In In sea water in th the ground in lion tion Usually however it is 14 too I scarce or too Inaccessible to be extracted profitably |