Gold was historically used as a vaccine in Chinese medicine for centuries and was believed to cure diseases like smallpox and measles in the late 1920s until the 1990s. Gold ink produces high quality printed images and gold coating on compact discs resists scratches and improves longevity. While there is a large amount of gold dissolved in seawater, approximately 10 billion tons in total across the oceans, it is not economically viable to extract at present.

2. As a vaccine

3. Gold was a common
treatment from the
late 1920s until the
1990s.
It was credited of
curing everything
from smallpox to
measles.
Chinese people has use gold as a vaccine
for centuries.

4. As ink to
print images

5. Photos printed in gold produce high quality lasting
images. New technology uses gold ink in ink jet printing.
High quality compact disks coated in gold resist scratches
and last longer.

6. Did you know that...
In every cubic mile of sea water there are 25 tons of
gold?That’s a total of about 10 billion tons of gold in
the oceans!