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Gold so pure it skips jewelry and gets stacked like bricks in vaults.
means Gold or silver in bulk form — bars, ingots, or coins — valued by weight and purity rather than as crafted objects.
from From Anglo-Norman 'bullion,' meaning a mint or melting-place for metal, ultimately tied to Latin 'bullire,' to boil or bubble — the same root behind 'boil.' The thread runs from molten metal seething in a crucible to the solid bars it cools into, so the word still carries a faint memory of fire.
- word origin
- From French 'bouillon' — melting, boiling metal
- standard bar
- Good Delivery bar weighs about 400 troy ounces
- too pure
- 24-karat gold too soft for daily wear
- fort knox
- Holds roughly 147 million ounces, rarely audited
- density flex
- A gold bar is heavier than it looks, deceptively
fort knox — u.s. gold repository holding 147.3 million troy ounces as of 2024
london bullion market — over-the-counter market trading 430 billion usd daily in precious metals
comex gold futures — cme exchange where 100-ounce gold contracts trade ~380,000 contracts daily