Characteristic of the24K gold foil leaf

Characteristic

Gold has excellent malleability and is processed into very thin sheets called gold foil. The ancient handmade method that has been used is called beating gold foil, and the workshops engaged in this handicraft industry are called beating gold. First the gold ingots into thin sheets, layer by layer into the Wujin paper. Each stack is more than 2,000 sheets wrapped in stretched paper. On the bluestone anvil hammer hammer about 30,000 times, that is, gold foil. To prevent bonding, apply talc to the paper. The thickness of the gold leaf is about 0.0003 mm. Gold foil is used for decoration of buildings, gilding of Buddha statues, printing ink, printing mud, and medicine. The gold thread made of gold foil can be woven into "cloud brocade", which is used for clothing and arts and crafts. In the modern electronics industry, gold foil is also used for cracks in sounders, electroscopes and video magnetic heads.