Ever heard of Gold nuggets ….Here is all you need to know about producing “Gold”

Bacterium C. metallidurans, has been shown to found a way to produce tiny gold nuggets by digesting toxic metals. These bacterium species have the ability to extract valuable trace metals from heavy metal compounds without poising itself but releases tiny gold nuggets as a side effect of heavy metal digestion. On coming in contact with copper or gold these bacterial species convert high concentration heavy metal into the form that is consumable and later released in the form of nuggets only a few nanometers in size.

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