The Olympic gold medal is plated with six grams of pure gold. The medal is mostly silver (92.5%).
An Olympic Gold medal is worth 25,000 U.S. Dollars
The Olympic gold medal is actually made mostly of silver which is then coated in gold. Gold medals only contain 1.34% gold (around 6 grams). 92.5% of a gold medal is actually silver while the rest is copper. The silver medal itself is also 92.5% silver, but it has no gold (obviously). Bronze medals are 97% copper, 2.5% zinc and 0.5% tin.
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there is 1.34%of gold and 92.5% of silver
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No not really the gold medal has 92.5% silver
The gold medal is 1.34% gold and 92.5% silver.
The Olympic gold medal is plated with six grams of pure gold. The medal is mostly silver (92.5%).
The gold and silver medals are both made out of solid silver. The gold medal is then plated with gold. The gold plate is thin and if it is handled too often it will eventualy come away.
Argentina won the 2004 olympic gold medal.
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The gold medal is 92.5% silver plated with 6 grammes of gold.
You can have 99.999% pure gold, but the gold medal is gold plated over silver.
The medal is silver with a 6 gram coating of gold.
1%. Believe it or not, an Olympic gold medal is only 1.34% gold. It's actually mostly made of silver.
Nigeria won her first Olympic gold medal in 1876