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Precious metals and precious medals Posted by on Aug 2, 2012

You may have noticed how closely related the words medal (as in Olympic gold medal) and metal (as the metal silver) are in English.  This is no coincidence.  The two words are written and pronounced very similarly, you can hear the pronunciation of these two words here by clicking on each one: medal and…

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