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Worlds Most Expensive Items
People want to be sure they get value for money when they make an investment. Investments however, come in all sizes and shapes and are made for all kinds of different reasons.
A very unscientific survey placed these items as the top 10 items to purchase.
1. Positrons
Positrons, at a massive cost of $US250 billion per kilo, are the most expensive investment you could make.
Positron, or antielectron, or the antimatter counterpart of the electron, are created when a low-energy positron collides with a low-energy electron and annihilation occurs, resulting in the production of two or more gamma ray photons.
Before you rush off thinking this is a scientific paper, chocolate contains positrons. Medical diagnostics, (PET scan) is the main user of antimatter.
Scientists discovered that beams of antimatter are constantly produced on earth and fired into space above thunderstorms.
Although antimatter is really difficult to produce and capture, just one gram of positron, would drive your vehicle for nearly 100,000 years.
2. The Yellow Stamp
For its weight and size ‘The Treskilling Yellow’, a Swedish stamp, is allegedly ‘The Most Valuable Thing In The World’.
The Yellow Stamp is listed in the Guinness Book of Records, being sold at auction in 1996 for $2.3 million.
The Swedish National Testing and Research Institute in Boras, Sweden estimates the stamp, weighing just 0.0009 ounces to be worth $US 85.98 billion per kilogram.
3. Platinum
Even though it is not classed as toxic, there are health concerns when exposed salts of platinum, which is one of the world’s rarest elements, with a remarkable resistance to corrosion.
Even though only a few hundred tons are found each year, it is used in laboratory equipment, some thermometers, electrical contacts, dentistry equipment and jewelry. In some cases it is used in chemotherapy against certain varieties of cancer.
A kilo of this rare metal would set you back $53,700 per kilo.
4. The Koh-i-Nor Diamond
The fine white Koh-I-Nor, a 105 carat (21.6g) diamond was once the biggest known diamond in the world.
Diamond, the hardest known substance to man, is used in many different areas of industry, from x-ray machines, to cutting and abraiding and microelectronics, because of its ability to transfer heat away from sensitive circuits.
While no one will put a price on the Koh-i-Nor diamond, some experts claim the value of a clear white diamond is around $250,000/g at the top end of the range, or approximately $50 million per kilo.
5. Gold
The largest nugget of gold ever discovered weighed 4.85 kg. This precious and rare metal has long been considered as being a ‘transportable’ commodity and is in fact the least reactive chemical element known.
Gold on average costs around $45,000 per kilo.
6. Palladium
Palladium is a rare silvery-white lustrous metal belonging to the platinum group of metals, PGMs. A quarter of all manufactured products either have PGMs, or PGMs are used in the manufacturing process.
A kilo of palladium will cost you approximately $21,500.
7. No. 5 1948 Painting
The U.S.A. painter, Jackson Pollock’s painting, No. 5 1948 would have cost you $151.8 million, if you had been able to buy it in 2006. Painted on a 243.8 cm x 121.9 cm fibreboard it would probably cost around $10.1 million per kilo.
8. Antilla
The 570 feet of mostly glass, of ‘Antilla’, towers over the slums of mid downtown Mumbai, India, at just 570 feet high, the 27 storey building cost around $2 billion, is nearly twice the price of Buckingham Palace. Antilla is the most expensive house on the planet. With 400,000 sq ft it is believed to have more floor space than Versailles palace of Louis XIV.
It is valued at around $5000 per square foot.
9. Green Monkey
If Green Monkey, a Florida born colt, was the same weight as an average thoroughbred, he would have weighed around 1000 pounds when he was sold for $16 million in 2006, making the colt worth around $36,000 per kilogram.
He was the most expensive horse ever sold even though he had never won a race.
10.Bugatti
The 1931Bugatti Royale Kellner Coupe became the most expensive car on earth, when it was sold at $8,7,000 in 1987. Originally it was built as a Grand Prix racer. This one of a kind costs a mere $2,800 per kilo.
About the Author
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