If we want to use an item as a substitute for money, we expect that item to have features such as being reliable, changing over time, or being easily manipulated. By examining the periodic table, the most suitable elements appear to be chemically stable and easy-to-change elements located on the right side of the periodic table, but these elements have a major problem: gas phase. You used these elements that were gaseous at room temperature instead of money, you would have lost all of your money when you opened each jar. Therefore the elements on this side are the best. So if we do not have elemental liquid or gas that we choose to use, you can be manipulated.
If we look at the elements on the left side of the periodic ruler ... they are very reactive, elements that can react even with air. For example, lithium creates air bubbles that are strong enough to resist concrete walls. Magnesium can easily react with water in the same sheath. Since you do not want a money that can explode in your pocket at any moment, we can also pick up the reactive elements on this side. You do not want the money in your pocket to change when you stop, the more reactive elements of the elements in the periodic table. Although they do not all burst, they can hang on time, they can split ...
The problem of these elements is that they are radioactive ... we could have faced with serious health problems when we were carrying one of them, for example thorium, in our pocket for a year. Therefore, I also insist on the elements of this part.
There are about 30 elements left ... we need an element that is not gas or liquid, does not hang up in time, does not explode, does not change as much as it is and does not kill us ... even add these criteria as well as the criterion that this element is rare. This criterion has squeezed many of the elements on the top side of the ruler, because these elements are present in large quantities in the world. But this element is also very rare. Model, osmium is an element that comes only to the earth with meteorites. Using this element as money would not be too smart.
After these criteria, there are 5 elements left behind: rhodium, palladium, silver, platinum and gold.
If you look carefully already, you realize that all of these elements are valuable metals. What are the features that make up the bottom of these elements? Gumus was used as money, but not the best choice; Because the time is dark, the image changes. It is not very possible for the first civilizations to use rhodium and palladium because these elements were discovered in the 1800s. It was only platinum and gold. In the rivers, there are elements with bright images that can be found in the rivers (look good) ... but eger old civilizations were willing to make platinum money, they would have to have a magical guile; Because the melting temperature of platinum is higher than 1600c. Since the gold could be released at lower temperatures, people were able to shape themselves before the industrial revolution and became an accepted purchasing unit. Gold does not change with time, does not change after hundreds of years, does not lose weight and volume, does not react easily even with strong acids; It can be easily processed and shaped.
What is the 'historical values' I wrote in the press? To better understand this, we can look at countries like China or India, where the bottom is always given a great deal of societal importance, and gold is always valuable. The elements that are used as money in gold in history, and the elements that are used as money in the gin, but the elements that are alienated and changed in time and that are harmful to health ... are the values that make gold? Historically, in ancient civilizations such as China and India, many people have experienced the change of political system, economic fluctuation or crisis, but the only thing that can keep the value even if the inflation increases. This phenomenon has, over time, settled in its cultures and in the future of the country, and even if the country has been working, it can keep its value after every crisis, which makes it the ideal currency.
Though water and gold are not actively used as currency, they are still available in gold. In history, paper money was also used in cin, but it was replaced by silver or gold. The same system is not exactly the same, but it is similar ... it was not a material that historically was used for money, jewelry, or other purposes outside the scope of the exhibition ('do not hang with time', 'easily manipulate' and 'hard enough' I think that this is mostly done for the purpose of the statue, so I regard it as a demonstration). The start of the use of gold in electronic products is a change that took place in the last 15-20 years; But naturally, gold will not lose 2500 years worth of 20 years :)
summarize; Gold, historic and cultural reasons, beautiful and bright, rare, and not chemically reactive.
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