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by sokoloff 972 days ago
Gold is not "highly biodegradable". Are you confusing that with biocompatible?
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eliasgriffin 972 days ago
No, I did not mean that although it is both.

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(Direct quote) How Gold Is Used In Aerospace: Gold Plating In Satellites https://www.valencesurfacetech.com/the-news/gold-plating-in-...

Biodegradable Gold Nanoclusters with Improved Excretion Due to pH-Triggered Hydrophobic-to-Hydrophilic Transition https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b13813

Gold nanoparticles: Synthesis properties and applications https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S101836472...

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sokoloff 971 days ago
The innovation in the second link is an innovation precisely because gold is not biodegradable.
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