An effort to extract this element from seawater was made by Fritz Haber, who was disappointed by the results.  
An effort to extract this element from seawater was made by Fritz Haber, who was disappointed by the results.  Mylar coated with this is used to protect artificial satellites from solar heat, and because it can be beaten into sheets about a tenth of a micron thick, this is the most malleable element. That property made this element useful as a foil to Ernest Rutherford in his discovery of atomic nuclei. It does not react with nitric acid but does react when nitric acid is combined with hydrochloric acid to make aqua regia. Name this metal with a yellowish color that was known in Latin as aurum.
An effort to extract this element from seawater was made by Fritz Haber, who was disappointed by the results.  
gold