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Is there real GOLD inside my laptop?

can someone tear up computors and sell the gold ???

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  • Zeke
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Better off stealing grandma's gold teeth.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Sure, like about ten thousand computers later you might have a couple of dollars in some gold content. It is so minute and you would not have the equipment to process it or extract it for any value. The gold content is normally on adapter cards and some IC Curcits may have a little bit. Woudl you be able to determine if it is Brass, Bronze or actually gold. Not every computer would have gold content.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes, gold is used inside computers for its conductivity (meaning electricity travels really fast through gold), but it's used in really tiny amounts. If you can collect enough (old) computers/laptops you can bring them to specialised companies who will extract the gold and keep around 90% of it as a pay. In other words, you can find more gold with a metaldetector on the beach.

  • 1 decade ago

    go for it the laptop is worth more than the possible amount of gold thats in it but sure rip it apart and put it on youtube and become an internet viral and shout wheres the gold

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  • DrDave
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Yes there is but unless you have the facilities to remove it, its not worth the time. Companies who retrieve the gold have very expensive equipment to do this.

  • 4 years ago

    Social networking. I even have this chum who gets multiple quantities of issues loose, basically because of the fact he's familiar with every physique. such multiple human beings throw issues away whilst they flow or do spring cleansing, or do basically no longer want/want anymore etc. He has extra me multiple sport structures, computers that needed something so trouble-free as a no longer basic force wipe, cool issues like letter openers shaped like swords. different than networking, sturdy success getting one fairly loose.

  • GaryM
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    you can get lead,copper from the board and few gold on IC and on some terminals,

    put the motherboard on small fire to burn it,

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    YEA I TRIED IT AND IM A MILLIONARE << YEA YEA GO ON RIP YOUR LAPTOP APART AND FIND A BAG OF GOLD<<<MABEY EVEN A LEPRACON

  • Arjen
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    yes. they're part of certain components. But it's not much and really small. You'll probably never find it :).

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yes u can

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