FROM MINING.COM The top 10 most bizarre uses for gold Cecilia Jamasmie | December 29, 2012 We all know that gold is not always used for monetary purposes or in jewellery. Due to its many qualities, the precious metal has countless uses in other sectors including technology, medicine and even food supplements. What most of us may have never imaged, however, is to find gold in one of the following quite unusual products launched this year (click on each image to see it full-size): 1. Gold pills: In a clever attempt to make a 2. Booze More affordable, but not less surprising is to see gold being incorporated into drinks, such as the popular cinnamon schnapps booze Goldschlager. Each bottle has, in fact, miniscule fragments of gold foil that can be consumed. Gold foil can be shaved to put on top of chocolates to donuts. 3. A cupcake Not “any cupcake,” but the most expensive and made out of edible gold one. The $28,000 confection, called the Golden Phoenix, was made by Bloomsbury, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. 4. Smoke your gold And then there is the gold cigar, a real hand-rolled Dominican cigar wrapped in thin 24-karat gold leaf. 8. Aeronautics: The visors of astronaut helmets contain gold because of the effective protection against space radiation the precious metal offers. 9. Beauty products Chinese beauty product manufacturer Umo offers skin rejuvenation based on a 24 K gold massage, as well as creams and other products containing gold. 10. Paint and Leaf We are not referring here about golden paint, as in the colour, but to the fact some industries use a very thin gold leaf, which is attached to the paint in the building process, and it is later to give it a unique shiny look, such as theshttp://www.mining.com/the-top-10-most-bizarre-uses-for-gold-56489/