Gold Bullion Vault – Periodic Table of Videos

We’re INSIDE a Gold Bullion Vault.
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The Bank of England protects about £197 billion (5bn) worth of gold, according to the mostly recently published figures.
Film by Brady Haran. Featuring Professor Martyn Poliakoff.

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  1. I wonder if some of the older gold bars are less pure than some of the newer ones, and if so, if they're ever re-melted to make them more pure (if it's possible.)

  2. "one shelf contains a ton of gold"
    at first i was like yeah i can see that, oh weight.

  3. You guys are smart, our idiot pm Turdeau sold our gold reserves off…probably in your vault now!

  4. It is needed for space tech and advance life force living. I have the absolute authentic alchemical recipe to make Gold/Au79. I promise no joke no gimmick. Please follow me and message me on Instagram BewareofYellowstone .

  5. The gold room of the US Federal Reserve in NY had bars of gold stacked from the floor to the ceiling and locked in lockers labeled with each country's name (that stored their gold there).
    I went there on a field trip in college but not sure if they give tours to just anyone.

  6. As a Portuguese I see the list 2:18 with a degree of pain. It's certain a big part of the Portuguese gold is "locked" on the IMF Portuguese participation and so on. Like so many other countries, I should say.
    But the fact is that prior to the carnation revolution, in 1974. Portugal's gold reserves was touching the 900 tons!! Now it barely touch the 382 tons! It' still more than the entire UK.
    But nevertheless an outrageous reduction. That consecutive governments have failed to "explain"! Like so many others I wonder where it's all gone?!

  7. THIS SHOWS MANY SCIENTIST DON'T CARE ABOUT GETTING LOTS OF MONEY, IF THEY GET LOTS OF MONEY, I BET, THEY WOULD SPEND A MAJORITY OF IT ON THEIR RESEARCH. ITS THEIR PASSION

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