Gold is element 79, a transition metal of the d block, in group 11, period 6. Its ground-state configuration is [Xe] 4f14 5d10 6s1, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 1, 3.
Gold has been known since antiquity, so no discovery is credited for it.
Name origin: English word (aurum in Latin).
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