Show interesting facts fact about gold I 1 gold is ia BO a a very tenacious that ft A piece of it drawn into wire one awen bieth of an inch in diameter will sustain a weight of pounds without breaking its malleability is so great that a single grain may be divided into parts and a cubic inch into parts each of which may 7 be distinctly seen by the naked eyl eye A grain and a halt of gold may be b beaten into leaves of one inch square which if intersected by parallel lines drawn at right angles to each other and distant only one hundredth part ot of an inch will produce attl squares each of which may ma y be distinctly seen without the aid of a gl glass the surface of any given quantity 3 ot jold gold according to the best authorities may be extended by the hammer times the thickness of the thus exten extended ded a appears R pears to be no more than the th part of an inch eight ounces of this wonderful metal would gild a silver wire ware of sufficient length to extend entirely around the globe |