• Question: At what temperature does gold melt ???

    Asked by gracerossiter to Aggelos, Andrew, Eileen, Naomi, Shane on 16 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Aggelos Zacharopoulos

      Aggelos Zacharopoulos answered on 16 Nov 2012:

      @gracerossiter,
      the melting point of gold is precisely 1064.18 °C!

    • Photo: Shane Bergin

      Shane Bergin answered on 18 Nov 2012:

      The melting point of gold at atmospheric pressure is ~1000 degrees Celsius. you should remember that materials melt at different temperatures depending on the pressure of the environment they are in. So, if you put gold under lots of pressure, it will melt at lower temperatures.

      This hapens for water too. if you go to the top of a mountain (say Mount Everest (8,800m)), atmospheric pressure if lower than it is at sea level (there’s less atmosphere pushing down on you). If you try to make tea up there it wouldn’t tastes so good… the water would boil at 69 degrees celcius (compared with 100c at sea level)

    • Photo: Eileen Diskin

      Eileen Diskin answered on 18 Nov 2012:

      Aggelos and Shane have it right! But I want to know…would you ever really want to melt gold?! I think it looks much better as jewelry 😉

    • Photo: Andrew Jackson

      Andrew Jackson answered on 21 Nov 2012:

      i came too late to this party to throw in an answer!

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