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Glass isn't used for structural applications either. I think if gold were cheap we would coat a lot of things with it, for the corrosion resistance. We spend a
by klodolph 7y ago
Glass isn't used for structural applications either. I think if gold were cheap we would coat a lot of things with it, for the corrosion resistance. We spend a lot of time already just worrying about corrosion.
- scotty79 7y agoCoating with gold to prevent corrosion is a bad idea for the same reason you don't use copper but zinc to prevent corrosion. You want your coating to be electrochemically weaker than the material you are trying to protect so it dissolves instead of the material.