Partial-thickness burns (2nd degree burns)-- affect the top 2 layers of skin. Most notable by blisters (which may develop quickly or take 24 hours to form), but also red, mottled, wet and painful skin. Full-thickness burns (3rd degree burn)-- all three layers of skin affected; leathery, dry, charred, gray.
1 Discoveror: known since ancient times. 2  Place of discovery: not known. 3  Date of discovery: unknown. 4  Origin of name: from the Anglo-Saxon word  gold  (the origin of the symbol Au is the Latin word  aurum  meaning  gold ).
Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au 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. Gold often occurs in free elemental form, as nuggets or grains, in rocks, in veins, and in alluvial deposits. It occurs in a solid solution series with the native element silver a