Turns out gold is actually a lot cheaper than some other rare commodities. It currently costs about $51 per gram
There are plenty of expensive substances out there, and unlike gold, they actually have some real personal or industrial uses.
there’s rhodium which costs about $58/gram and is used to plae jewllery for an extra shiny looking silver colour. it’s also used in car engines to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released into the environment. Platinum costs about the same and is also used in jewelry and in chemotherapy drugs
there’s a whole range of illegal drugs which can cost up to $3000/gram
the rhino horn (illegal to sell also) goes for about $110/gram
plutonium is about $3000/gram and is used in nuclear reactors.
diamonds are about $55,000/gram (they are very light) and used in drill bits as well as jewlery.
but the winner is anti-matter. It cost 63 trillion dollars just to make one gram of the stuff. but it’s potential uses are limitless as it would make an excellent fuel, but they will need to work out how to make it much cheaper first!
that said, the protein i make isn’t cheap to make either. I would estimate it probably would cost about $20-30,000 to make one gram of it, as it requires some very expensive detergents to make even 0.1g
Among the natural chemicals, aflatoxin is leading the market with $12million per gram.
Among all the chemicals (including synthetically made ones) anti-matter is the most expensive thing in the universe. The cheapest anti-matter which is anti-hydrogen would cost $62.5 trillion, I can’t imagine anti-heavy metals…
I didn’t know chemicals could get that expensive! Great answers Miranda and Yagiz! When I pay $600 for 1ml of antibody, it doesn’t seem so expensive anymore! Buying antibodies is the most expensive item I need to buy for my research.
Turns out gold is actually a lot cheaper than some other rare commodities. It currently costs about $51 per gram
There are plenty of expensive substances out there, and unlike gold, they actually have some real personal or industrial uses.
there’s rhodium which costs about $58/gram and is used to plae jewllery for an extra shiny looking silver colour. it’s also used in car engines to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released into the environment. Platinum costs about the same and is also used in jewelry and in chemotherapy drugs
there’s a whole range of illegal drugs which can cost up to $3000/gram
the rhino horn (illegal to sell also) goes for about $110/gram
plutonium is about $3000/gram and is used in nuclear reactors.
diamonds are about $55,000/gram (they are very light) and used in drill bits as well as jewlery.
but the winner is anti-matter. It cost 63 trillion dollars just to make one gram of the stuff. but it’s potential uses are limitless as it would make an excellent fuel, but they will need to work out how to make it much cheaper first!
that said, the protein i make isn’t cheap to make either. I would estimate it probably would cost about $20-30,000 to make one gram of it, as it requires some very expensive detergents to make even 0.1g
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Among the natural chemicals, aflatoxin is leading the market with $12million per gram.
Among all the chemicals (including synthetically made ones) anti-matter is the most expensive thing in the universe. The cheapest anti-matter which is anti-hydrogen would cost $62.5 trillion, I can’t imagine anti-heavy metals…
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I didn’t know chemicals could get that expensive! Great answers Miranda and Yagiz! When I pay $600 for 1ml of antibody, it doesn’t seem so expensive anymore! Buying antibodies is the most expensive item I need to buy for my research.
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