Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from Latin: aurum) and atomic number 79. In its purest form, it is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, soft, malleable and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal and a group 11 element. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements, and is solid under standard conditions. The metal therefore occurs often in free elemental (native) form, as nuggets or grains, in rocks, in veins and in alluvial deposits.
A1c is an abbreviation of another abbreviation, HbA1c, or hemoglobin A1c. It's a blood test that evaluates how your blood sugar levels have been over the last three months.
The HbA1c test (hemoglobin A1c test, glycosylated hemoglobin A1c test, glycohemoglobin A1c test, or A1c test) is a lab test which reveals average blood glucose over a period of two to three months.Specifically, it measures the number of glucose molecules attached to hemoglobin, a substance in red blood cells.bA1c test results are expressed as a percentage, with 4 to 6 % considered normal. The HbA1c big picture complements the day to day snapshots obtained from the self-monitoring of blood glucose (mg/dl), and the two tests can be equated as in the printable diabetes chart.