Latinum gold pressed12/31/2023 ![]() ![]() These numbers are not exact - maybe off by 100 times - nonetheless, there is very little material to work with. You don't need to mix them in any way to provide a durable container. So we're talking about a tiny drop of latinum compared to the large amount of gold. That's too small to see with the naked eye. Assuming 7 x 3.625 x 1.75 standard earth bar and 2000 bars, that's a ratio of at least 400,000 : 1 by volume. Morn had ~4 ounces of latinum in his stomach (by visual estimation when he spat it up), which was worth thousands of bars. This suggests a pocket.Ĭreating a mixture doesn't make sense considering how little latinum is in the bar. Making a mixture of any kind would make this expensive. Why would you mix something valuable with the material of its container?īecause Latinum is valuable because of its applications, I would think a better design would to make it easy to extract the latinum from the bar. We know the bar is the container for the latinum. (Of course, I must admit what seems simple to me and what seems simple 300 years from now is somewhat subjective.) As an Engineer, it's often best to do what's simple. The pocket idea seems to be the most likely scenario to me. So it could very well be "pressed gold encasing latinum" and also be correctly called "gold pressed latinum." The latter would be the common name. Elsewhere, silver gained 1.5 to 23.08 per ounce, platinum rose 1 to. It refers to how it was made, not what it is. interest rates, which increase the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion. "Pressed" refers to the bar being extruded (at a low temperature) and stamped. I don't think this is answer in canon, although the name alone is sufficient description. Given that latinum is a liquid, this would also likely make for bars that are extremely fragile - unless latinum possess some quality that offsets that.Īnyway, I am not looking for a technically correct scientific explanation, just wondering if the makers of the series ever touch on anything specific about the manufacturing process. This could work if latinum were either very cohesive or very adhesive to gold - but the pressing process would still pose a problem, since gold is very soft, and a fine network of pores could be easily destroyed by pressure. One way I could picture it is that gold is made porous (such as by loosely binding gold dust through heat), and latinum is contained within it. ![]() Gold is neither very reactive nor absorbent, so I am not sure what pressing a liquid into it would do. It's possible to encase a liquid into gold, but then you would call it gold encased latinum, rather than gold pressed latinum. ![]() Denominations of gold-pressed latinum, in order of increasing value, according to canon include the Slip, the Strip. Latinum is usually suspended within the element gold to produce the currency Gold Pressed Latinum (GPL). Latinum cannot be replicated and the reasons for its rarity are unknown. Curious whether the actual process for gold pressed latinum is ever mentioned. Latinum is a rare silver liquid used as currency by many worlds, most notably the Ferengi Alliance. ![]()
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