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- From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
- Subject: Re: Gold - future Auto Catalyst
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.153133.22631@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Nov16.193403.16355@news.clarkson.edu> <1992Nov16.223502.27207@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <1992Nov17.011919.14080@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:31:33 GMT
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- >>In article <1992Nov16.193403.16355@news.clarkson.edu>
- >>rajat@sunny3.che.clarkson.edu (Rajat Kapoor,P303,2124) writes:
- >>>Gold has a charm like no other metal.
-
- I interpreted this line as meaning that we should save it for
- jewelry. If I misinterpreted Rajat's posting, I would be grateful to
- Rajat for correcting me.
-
- In article <1992Nov17.011919.14080@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> knapp@spot.Colorado.EDU
- (David Knapp) writes:
- >On the contrary, his post makes *much* sense. Just like many people think
- >that beef comes from grocery stores, so too do people think that metal
- >resources come from Alcoa.
-
- I never said anything like that, but I understand how my posting
- might have been misconstrued in this way. I was objecting to the idea
- of saving gold for jewelry. If there are good reasons for saving gold
- or for making a special effort to recover it, and I am sure that there
- are, surely jewelry is not one of them.
-
- >In article <1992Nov16.223502.27207@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- >mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
- >>Secondly, gold makes pretty jewelry, but so what? I
- >>would rather have it play a useful technological role than see it wind
- >>up as a useless ornament.
- >
- >It is precisely that it is so valuable in so many areas *besides* and
- >including jewelry (which is a very real sink for the stuff) that we should
- >consider not being so foolish with it as a resource.
-
- I think that David and I agree. I was taking issue with the idea
- of saving gold because of its "charm". By all means, let's save gold
- because of its technological utility. On the other hand, if we do have
- a real use for it, let's not be shy. (Making good catalytic converters
- is extremely important to our efforts to clean up the atmosphere. It
- should be a high priority.) Since, as David mentioned in another part
- of his post, so much gold goes into jewelry, we do have a large repository
- of it in relatively pure form sitting right under our noses, not to
- mention in our nations' vaults. I either missed the point of Rajat's
- posting, or David missed mine.
-
- Marc R. Roussel
- mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
-