# does gold conduct electricity

r/askscience on Reddit: Do jewellery that conducts electricity (like gold or iron rings) pose an additional health risk when struck by lightning? » Posted by u/CrrackTheSkye - 1 vote and 3 comments Reddit.com

r/explainlikeimfive on Reddit: ELI5: Why is gold so soft, and why does it conduct electricity so well? » Posted by u/Ex_Nihil - 36 votes and 26 comments Reddit.com

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Computers made of genetic material? Researchers conduct electricity using DNA-based nanowires » Tinier than the AIDS virus—that is currently the circumference of the smallest transistors. The industry has shrunk the central elements of their computer chips to fourteen nanometers in the last sixty years. Conventional methods, however, are hitting physical boundaries. Researchers around the world are looking for alternatives. One method could be the self-organization of complex components from molecules and atoms. Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and Paderborn University have now made an important advance: the physicists conducted a current through gold-plated nanowires, which independently assembled themselves from single DNA strands. Their results have been published in the scientific journal Langmuir. Phys.org

The Many Faces of Fool's Gold » …can move freely in the material and conduct electricity. In other words, a small amount of energy will switch pyrite from behaving like an insulator to … Americanscientist.org