> hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber I thought of the alloy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold https

> hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber I thought of the alloy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold - and the wiki disambiguation page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Gold ) also misses the cotton reference. It does exist abundantly, but seems mostly to be used in cotton producing countries ...