[sci.electronics] liquid gold?

piner@pur-phy (Richard Piner) (12/04/89)

I was watching PBS during Thanksgiving and I saw a show on gold.
Where it comes from and where it goes and how it is handled and worked.
During the show they mentioned "liquid gold". They didn't say much
about it except that is was used to apply very thin coats of
gold to electronics and glass bottles. Being in the STM business,
this caught my interest.
Does anyone know anything about this stuff? All the program said
was that it was some sort of solution of gold chloride. Can this
stuff be purchased anywhere?

				R. Piner