white gold

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Noun

white gold (countable and uncountable, plural white golds)

1. (countable) Any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal such as platinum or palladium or other white metal such as nickel.
2. (uncountable) Any white commodity seen as valuable
   1. Cotton
   2. Sugar
   3. China or porcelain
   4. Cocaine.
      • 1989, Gabriel G. Nahas, Helene Peters, Cocaine: The Great White Plague, page 122:

        Fleets of planes flew in their daily cargo of white gold, first extracted from coca leaves in Peru or Bolivia and then refined in Colombia.

3. (obsolete, uncountable) Platinum.

Translations

any precious metal alloy consisting of gold and a platinum group metal

• Bulgarian: бяло злато n (bjalo zlato)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白金 (zh) (báijīn), 白色黃金／白色黄金 (báisè huángjīn), 白色K金 (báisè kei jīn)

• Crimean Tatar: aq altın
• Dutch: witgoud (nl) n
• Finnish: valkokulta (fi)
• French: or blanc (fr) m
• Galician: ouro branco m
• German: Weißgold n
• Hungarian: fehérarany (hu)
• Italian: oro bianco m
• Japanese: ホワイトゴールド (howaitogōrudo), 白色金 (はくしょくきん, hakushokukin)
• Persian: طلا سفید (talâ-sefid)
• Polish: białe złoto (pl) n
• Portuguese: ouro branco m
• Romanian: aur alb (ro) n
• Russian: бе́лое зо́лото (ru) n (béloje zóloto)
• Spanish: oro blanco m
• Swedish: vitguld (sv) n
• Thai: ทองขาว (tɔɔng-kǎao), ทองคำขาว (tɔɔng-kam-kǎao)
• Vietnamese: vàng trắng

See also

• white gold on Wikipedia.Wikipedia