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The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. The famous element gold is the number 79 on the periodic table.

As we discovered in the Periodic Video “Aqua Regia dissolves Gold”, it was said that in the second World War, Niels Bohr dissolved the gold Nobel Prize medals of two German colleagues in Aqua Regia to prevent it from falling into Nazi hands.

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