Density of Gold The Physics Factbook
The standard units for density are kg/m 3 but density can also be recorded as specific gravity which is the density of the material divided by the density of water (1000 kg/m 3). Specific gravity of gold (then recorded as ) was important to the gold miners of the mid1800s for when they needed to determine whether they had gold or fool''s gold since they did not have any quality measuring