Rare Earth Minerals Can Keep You Healthy

While researching rare earth minerals, I came across something exciting that has had a positive impact on my health.  So I wanted to share it with YOU.

I discovered that the body needs 90 nutrients every single day in order to operate at optimal level.  In addition to 60 minerals, trace elements, and rare earths proven to be essential to human health, we also need 16 essential vitamins, 12 essential amino acids, and all three fatty acids.

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What is Fiat Currency?

Right now, the U.S. uses fiat currency, which means it’s not backed by any commodity such as gold or silver.  It derives its value by being declared by the government to be legal tender.  That is, it must be accepted as a form of payment within the boundaries of the country for all debts, public and private.  Our money is referred to as fiat money.

In addition to the U.S. dollar, the euro and all other reserve currencies are fiat currencies.  This trend began with the Nixon Shock of 1971 which ended the backing by precious metal of the U.S. dollar.

Here is an entertaining explanation from a Canadian’s point of view.  Yes; they have fiat currency too.

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How Does Aqua Regia Refine Gold?

Aqua regia is also known as aqua regis, and comes from the Latin phrase royal water.

Gold produced from agua regia.

Gold produced from agua regia. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

It is a highly-corrosive mixture of acids, fuming yellow or red solution, also called nitro-hydrochloric acid. The mixture is formed by freshly mixing nearly pure nitric acid and maximum-concentration (38%) hydrochloric acid, usually in a volume ratio of 1:3 respectively.

Aqua regia is primarily used to produce chloroauric acid, the electrolyte in the Wohlwill process. This process is used for refining highest quality (99.999%) gold.

Wikipedia tells the story of how, when Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of the German physicists Max von Laue (1914) and James Franck (1925) in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from confiscating them. The German government had prohibited Germans from accepting or keeping any Nobel Prize after the jailed peace activist Carl von Ossietzky had received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935.

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