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GOLD FOIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Foil made of gold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gold foil" is a kind of...):
foil (a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal)
Meronyms (substance of "gold foil"):
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gold foil"):
gold leaf (a very thin form of gold foil)
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