Most people agree that money can buy everything and many people also agree that gold is more expensive than life. From centuries, people hunts gold mine, slay and kill other people because of it even gold often cause massive war that cost millions live in short period of time. On the following, we are not going to talk about gold and also other more expensive metal than gold . if you curious to know it, read more.
10. Molybdenum
Our cheapest expensive metal on the list is Molybdenum. This metal is not a free metal and to collect it from earth is
impossible. To get the metal, various processes of mineral oxidation are required.9. Iridium
Iridium with atomic number 77 is the second cheapest most expensive metal. Iridium gets its value from the silver white accents, hardiness and brittleness. The price is around $450 per ounce.
8. Osmium
Osmium with atomic number 76 (Os) comes from platinum family. Osmium valuation comes from the blue grey accents and brittleness thickness. We can easily found Osmium on a pen tip
7. Ruthenium
Ruthenium with atomic number 44 (Ru) is a common material to thick film transistor because of its nature behavior that is wear resistant against electrical current.
Market price for ruthenium is beyond $800 per ounce. The price is predicted will rise every year because the demand is always increasing. Totally, today, miners only unearthed 30 tons ruthenium worldwide. This material is important parts to build hard drives
6. Palladium
Our next metal is also coming from Platinum family. Different from Osmium, Palladium has lower melting point and lesser density
5. Rhenium
Rhenium with atomic number 75 comes with silvery white color. Rhenium is a heavy metal and one of the hardest metals to be found on earth.
4. Gold
Unlike what most people think,
the fact gold is a mere shinning soft metal with certain malleable quality. With atomic number 79, gold is the most popular metal on earth compare to other premium metal on the list.3. Platinum
Platinum mostly can be found in southern Africa Region. In Spanish, its name is Platina del pinto or in English means little silver from Pinto River.
2. Rhodium
Rhodium with atomic 45 (Rh) is a free metal that never blend with other metal. Rhodium has character hard surface.
Rhodium is mostly exported from platinum mine in South Africa and little from Zimbabwe, Canada and Russia. Rhodium is important parts to make LCD and Plasma display and the production of the electronic devices spikes in Asia. Yearly, only 25 tons ruthenium unearthed. It fits to store under a table though it can be cash out beyond €3,000,000,000
In the early 2005, rhodium price per ounce is $1,300 spike to $10,000 an ounce since quarter 2008 and from January to march that year, the price hit $4,000 an ounce
1. Technetium $2800/gram
Our most expensive metal in the world in the list is Technetium. The silver grayish metal carries unstable isotope inside. The metal is not a free metal and it only comes after intricate synthetic process in a lab.
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