Gold leaf

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Gold leaf is gold that has been hammered into thin sheets (usually around 0.1 μm thick) by a process known as goldbeating, for use in gilding.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Gold leaf”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Eckhard Pecher, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.