Did You Know:The Human Body Contains Gold

The human body is composed of many elements , including Gold in trace amounts . According the technical treatise, The Elements Third Edition, written by John Emsley and published by the Clarendon Press , Oxford in 1998 , the average person' s body weighing 70 kilograms would contain a total mass of 0. 2 milligrams of gold. The volume of this gold in purified form would be 10 nanoliters. If this refined gold were formed into a solid cube of purified gold , the measurement of each side of the cube would be 0 . 22 millimeters. By comparison , the human body contains 43 kilograms of oxygen , the most abundant element in the earth , as well as the human body. Other elements found in the human body include 16 kilograms of carbon and 7 kilograms of hydrogen . While the role of gold in the physiological processes of the human body was unknown for many years , it has recently been determined that gold plays a role in both the health and maintenance of the joints, as well as being a key element in the transmitting of electrical signals throughout the body. Of interesting note