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Bullion is gold bars, silver bars, and other bars or ingots of precious metal.

The word bullion comes from the French Minister of Finance under Louis XIII, Claude de Bullion.

Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from) and atomic number 79.

In its purest form, it is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal.

Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element.

It is one of the least reactive chemical elements and is solid under standard conditions.

Gold often occurs in free elemental (native) form, as nuggets or grains, in rocks, in veins, and in alluvial deposits.

It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver (as electrum) and also naturally alloyed with copper and palladium.

Less commonly, it occurs in minerals as gold compounds, often with tellurium (gold tellurides).

A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.

Metals are generally malleable—that is, they can be hammered or pressed permanently out of shape without breaking or cracking—as well as fusible (able to be fused or melted) and ductile (able to be drawn out into a thin wire).

About 91 of the 118 elements in the periodic table are metals, the others are nonmetals or metalloids.

Some elements appear in both metallic and non-metallic forms.

Trade, or commerce, involves the transfer of goods and/or services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money.

A network that allows trade is called a market.

In ordinary usage, price is the quantity of payment or compensation given by one party to another in return for goods or services.