One Response to “How can I make monatomic Gold?”

1. metaisobutyltolulene on June 30th, 2009 9:31 pm

   By monoatomic do you mean only one gold atom or do you mean gold in an oxidation state of zero? To make gold, like a gold ring, you need to have a lot of gold atoms all in the oxidations state of zero. This type of gold is mined and was created from the explosions of stars. So you would have to explode a star under some certain conditions (try asking a physicist) to get this type of gold. As far as I know it is impossible to get a solution (or otherwise) of monoatomic gold. The closest way to get isolated individual gold atoms is with a solution of AuHCl4 (tetrachloroaurate) which is obtained by oxidizing metallic gold in the presence of aqua regia (3:1 hydrochloric acid:nitric acid). I hope this helps but if it doesn’t try rephrasing the question giving more details.

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