bigwater
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Well I don't know exactly what you mean by "aura", but gold does have 5 isotope decay properties that are easily measurable in the laboratory.
Due to the difficulty in punching in the latin characters for these properties, I'm defining my own abbreviations as I use a term so I don't have to keep typing them out.
195AU with an electron capture decay mode (EC) and a 186.1 day half life (HL) and a decay energy (DE) of .227 electron volts (EV).
196AU with two decay properties, an EC with a DE of 1.506 EV, and a Beta- (B-) DE of .686 EV, both with a 6.183 HL
198AU EC, 2.695 HL, B-, 1.372 EV
199AU EC, 3.169 HL ,B-, 0.453 EV
197AU is the only stable isotope in gold.
So if by "aura" you mean measurable emissions from the element, then it is by no means pretend. No more pretend than the isotopes emitted by radioactive material that can easily be detected by a geiger counter. As technology advances, there's no reason these gold isotope decays could not be detected as easily as uranium isotopes can be.
Due to the difficulty in punching in the latin characters for these properties, I'm defining my own abbreviations as I use a term so I don't have to keep typing them out.
195AU with an electron capture decay mode (EC) and a 186.1 day half life (HL) and a decay energy (DE) of .227 electron volts (EV).
196AU with two decay properties, an EC with a DE of 1.506 EV, and a Beta- (B-) DE of .686 EV, both with a 6.183 HL
198AU EC, 2.695 HL, B-, 1.372 EV
199AU EC, 3.169 HL ,B-, 0.453 EV
197AU is the only stable isotope in gold.
So if by "aura" you mean measurable emissions from the element, then it is by no means pretend. No more pretend than the isotopes emitted by radioactive material that can easily be detected by a geiger counter. As technology advances, there's no reason these gold isotope decays could not be detected as easily as uranium isotopes can be.