Precious metal

A precious metal is a rare, naturally occurring metallic chemical element of high economic value. Chemically, the precious metals tend to be less reactive than most elements (see noble metal). They are usually ductile and have a high lustre. Historically, precious metals were important as currency but are now regarded mainly as investment and industrial commodities. Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium each have an ISO 4217 currency code.

The best-known precious metals are the coinage metals, gold and silver. Although both have industrial uses, they are better known for their uses in art, jewellery, and coinage. Other precious metals include the platinum group metals: ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, and platinum, of which platinum is the most widely traded. The demand for precious metals is driven not only by their practical use but also by their role as investments and a store of value. Historically, precious metals have commanded much higher prices than common industrial metals.

Precious metal (disambiguation)

A precious metal is a naturally occurring metal of high economic value. Precious metal may also refer to:

  • Precious Metal (aircraft), a custom-built racing aircraft
  • Precious Metal (band), an American all-female band from the 1980s featuring Janet Robin
  • "Precious Metal", an episode from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (season 3)
  • "Precious Metals", a song by the Canadian indie pop group The Russian Futurists
  • Precious Metal, a 2009 book by the publishers of Decibel magazine.
  • Decibel (magazine)

    Decibel is a monthly heavy metal magazine published by the Philadelphia-based Red Flag Media since October 2004. Its sections include Upfront, Features, Reviews, Guest Columns and the Decibel Hall of Fame. The magazine's tag-line is currently "Extremely Extreme" (previously "The New Noise"); the editor-in-chief is Albert Mudrian.

    Features

    Hall of Fame

    Each issue of Decibel features an article dubbed the Hall of Fame which pays tribute to a significant album in the history of heavy metal music. All contributing band members to the specific album must be alive at the time of interviewing.

    In 2009, 25 of the Hall of Fame entries were used as the basis for the book Precious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces released through Da Capo Press. The book also includes previously unreleased interview questions that were left out of the magazine articles, and a full piece on Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger that was never published in a magazine due to its length.

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Precious Metal

    by: Joyshop

    Over-priced but under-sold
    You'll soon be worth your weigh in precious metal
    Roll the crimson carpet out
    The jack of clubs has come and will not leave
    Fate loved me but now does not
    I heard it from a rare clairvoyant petal
    First you thrash me then you run
    You broke the heart I fastened to my sleeve
    Oh you're killing me now
    You're over the moon and I'm under the ground
    Oh it's killing you too
    That they fought over me
    But poured scorn over you
    Oh it's payment in kind
    That you're half what I love and half what I despise
    Oh you're killing me now, you're killing me
    Out of time but into greed
    Your pots will slowly turn to copper kettles
    Sneak a breath then spit it out
    Enjoy the pound of freshly scented truce
    One obsession at a time;
    Your grip is getting loose around the nettles
    Time to flee, and fly you will
    A felon with a melancholy muse




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