| gold leaf n. Gold beaten into extremely thin sheets used especially for gilding. |
gold leaf
n
(Engineering / Metallurgy) very thin gold sheet with a thickness usually between 0.076 and 0.127 micrometre, produced by rolling or hammering gold and used for gilding woodwork, etc.
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| Noun | 1. |  gold leaf - a very thin form of gold foil gold foil - foil made of gold atomic number 79, Au, gold - a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia |
Translations
gold leaf n → lamina d'oro
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