Plated Star

Posted January 22, 2010 By admin

Just curious about a Star trek thing. dose any one know how much latinum is worth, plated or not. what is it?

Here's the evaluation from Wikipedia:

A liquid which cannot be replicated or synthesized. Used as a dominant form of currency by the Ferengi. As it is difficult to properly measure liquid for currency transactions, premeasured amounts of latinum are suspended into the solid mass of gold bullion of various sizes, leading to the standard units (approximately): 40,000 slips = 400 strips = 20 bars = 1 brick and, in today's money, 1 brick is approximately US$1000. With the latinum removed, the gold is considered worthless. It is never properly described, but it is not impossible that an electrostatic stabilization process of some sort is used for making the colloid described. Likewise, a similar destabilization process could be used for removing the latinum, which would account for the brittle quality of gold after the procedure...