19 Of The Most Expensive Substances In The World

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[h=2]19. White Truffles[/h]

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Cost: Up to $5 per gram or $2,000 per pound
What you do with it: This seasonal mushroom can be shaved over pasta, steak, eggs, and rice and infused in oil to sprinkle on almost anything.

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[h=2]18. Saffron[/h]

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Cost: $11.13 per gram or $5,040 per pound
What you do with it: Saffron is a flowering plant that can be used in natural remedies for everything from depression to menstrual cycles.

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[h=2]17. Iranian Beluga Caviar[/h]

Buy Beluga Caviar
Cost: $35 per gram or $1,000 per ounce
What you do with it: Also known as "almas," these costly fish eggs are eaten cold and in small bites as an appetizer and on unsalted crackers or bread.

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[h=2]16. Gold[/h]

Edible Gold
Cost: $39.81 per gram
What you do with it: In addition to its uses in jewelry, the ancient metal can be used for electrical conductivity and resistance to corrosion.

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[h=2]15. Rhodium[/h]

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Cost: $45 per gram or $1,270 per ounce
What you do with it: Rhodium is mostly used in three-way catalytic converters to reduce a car's carbon emissions.

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[h=2]14. Platinum[/h]

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Cost: $48 per gram or $1,365 per ounce
What you do with it: Platinum can be used as a catalyst in scientific experiments, worn as jewelry, and taken in anti-cancer drugs.

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[h=2]13. Rhino Horn[/h]

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Cost: $55 per gram or $25,000 per pound
What you do with it: The prized tusk is rumored in Vietnam to cure cancer. Its supposed medical uses also include treating fevers and other ailments.

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[h=2]12. Crème de la Mer[/h]

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Cost: $70 per gram or $2,000 an ounce
What you do with it: Rub this so-called miracle cream daily to look ageless.

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[h=2]11. Heroin[/h]

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Cost: High-quality heroin can cost you up to $110 per gram
What you do with it: The opiate is injected, snorted, or smoked and is meant to alter the subconscious. It can also cause convulsions or even comas.

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[h=2]10. Methamphetamine[/h]

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Cost: $120 per gram or $1,600 per ounce
What you do with it: The highly addictive drug can produce euphoric effects and is often popular with teenagers.

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[h=2]9. Crack Cocaine[/h]

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Cost: Up to $600 per gram
What you do with it: Some say party, others say develop a problematic habit.

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[h=2]8. LSD[/h]

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Cost: The crystal form of LSD costs about $3,000 per gram
What you do with it: Popular in the 1960s, this substance is known to cause hallucinations.

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[h=2]. Plutonium[/h]

Cost: Roughly $4,000 per gram
What you do with it: It makes things nuclear. There are two kinds of plutonium that can be used, for either military purposes or nuclear reactors.

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6. Taaffeite

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*Cost: Anywhere between $2,500 to $20,000 per gram or $2,400 per carat
What you do with it: The mauve-colored gem is thought to be more than a million times scarcer than diamonds. And while it's a bit too durable to use often in jewelry, if you're lucky enough to find one, don't let your hands off it.
*FYI: A carat = 0.2 grams

From Wikipedia

[h=1]Taaffeite[/h] From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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[TH="bgcolor: #7da7d9, colspan: 2, align: center"]Taaffeite[/TH]
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[TD="colspan: 2, align: center"] Magnesiotaaffeite-2N'2S (Mg[SUB]3[/SUB]Al[SUB]8[/SUB]BeO[SUB]16[/SUB])
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[TH="bgcolor: #7da7d9, colspan: 2, align: center"]General[/TH]
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[TH="align: left"]Category[/TH]
[TD]Oxide minerals[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Formula
(repeating unit)[/TH]
[TD]BeMgAl[SUB]4[/SUB]O[SUB]8[/SUB][/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Strunz classification[/TH]
[TD]04.FC.25[/TD]
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[TH="bgcolor: #7da7d9, colspan: 2, align: center"]Identification[/TH]
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[TH="align: left"]Color[/TH]
[TD]Colorless, greyish violet, violet red, red, greenish, light green, pink violet, mauve[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Crystal habit[/TH]
[TD]Prismatic, alluvial grains[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Crystal system[/TH]
[TD]Hexagonal, 6/mmm (6/m 2/m 2/m)[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Twinning[/TH]
[TD]By reflection on (0001)?[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Cleavage[/TH]
[TD]Imperfect/fair/absent[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Fracture[/TH]
[TD]Conchoidal[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Mohs scale hardness[/TH]
[TD]8-8.5[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Luster[/TH]
[TD]Vitreous[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Streak[/TH]
[TD]White[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Diaphaneity[/TH]
[TD]Transparent to translucent[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Specific gravity[/TH]
[TD]3.60–3.61[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Optical properties[/TH]
[TD]Uniaxial[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Refractive index[/TH]
[TD]n[SUB]ω[/SUB] = 1.722, n[SUB]ε[/SUB] = 1.777[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Birefringence[/TH]
[TD]δ = 0.055[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Pleochroism[/TH]
[TD]Weak[/TD]
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[TD][SUP][1][/SUP][SUP][2][/SUP][/TD]
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Taaffeite (/ˈtɑːfaɪt/; BeMgAl[SUB]4[/SUB]O[SUB]8[/SUB]) is a mineral, named after its discoverer Richard Taaffe (1898–1967) who found the first sample, a cut and polished gem, in October 1945 in a jeweler's shop[1] in Dublin, Ireland.[SUP][3][/SUP] As such, it is the only gemstone to have been initially identified from a faceted stone. Most pieces of the gem, prior to Taaffe, had been misidentified as spinel. For many years afterwards, it was known only in a few samples, and is still one of the rarest gemstone minerals in the world.[SUP][4][/SUP]
Since 2002, the International Mineralogical Association-approved name for taaffeite as a mineral is magnesiotaaffeite-2N'2S.
[h=2]Contents[/h]

• 1 Discovery
• 2 Properties
• 3 Usage
• 4 Formation and occurrence
• 5 See also
• 6 References

[h=2]Discovery[/h] Taaffe bought a number of precious stones from a jeweller in October 1945. Upon noticing inconsistencies between the taaffeite and spinels, Taaffe sent some examples to B. W. Anderson of the Laboratory of the London Chamber of Commerce for identification on 1 November 1945. When Anderson replied on 5 November 1945, he told Taaffe that they were unsure of whether it was a spinel or something new; he also offered to write it up in Gemmologist.[SUP][5][/SUP]
Specimen from Ratnapura, Sri Lanka


[h=2]Properties[/h] In 1951, chemical and X-ray analysis confirmed the principal constituents of taaffeite as beryllium, magnesium and aluminium,[SUP][6][/SUP] making taaffeite the first mineral to contain both beryllium and magnesium as essential components.[SUP][1][/SUP]
The confusion between spinel and taaffeite is understandable as certain structural features are identical in both. Anderson et al.,[SUP][5][/SUP] classified taaffeite as an intermediate mineral between spinel and chrysoberyl.[SUP][7][/SUP] Unlike spinel, taaffeite displays the property of double refraction that allows distinction between these two minerals.
[h=2]Usage[/h] Because of its rarity, taaffeite is used only as a gemstone.[SUP][8][/SUP]
[h=2]Formation and occurrence[/h] Taaffeite occurs in carbonate rocks alongside fluorite, mica, spinel and tourmaline. This extremely rare mineral is increasingly found in alluvial deposits in Sri Lanka[SUP][9][/SUP] and southern Tanzania,[SUP][1][/SUP] as well as lower grade taffelite in limestone sediments in China.[SUP][7][/SUP]


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[h=2]5. Tritium[/h]

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Cost: $30,000 per gram
What you do with it: Tritium is used in self-luminating EXIT signs found in theaters, schools, and office buildings. There are more than two million tritium EXIT signs in the United States.

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[h=2]4. Diamonds[/h]

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*Cost: A colorless, 1-carat can cost more than $65,000 per gram, or $13,000 per carat
What you do with it: Buy engagement rings.
*FYI: A carat = 0.2 grams

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[h=2]3. Painite[/h]

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*Cost: $300,000 per gram or up to $60,000 per carat
What you do with it: Thought to be the rarest gem mineral, it can be used in crystal healing or just make a pretty collectible.
*FYI: A carat = 0.2 grams

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[h=2]2. Californium 252[/h]

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Cost: $27 million per gram
What you do with it: The Californium isotope is used in devices that find layers of oil and water in oil wells.

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1. Antimatter

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Cost: $100 trillion per gram
What you do with it: Antimatter could possibly fuel spaceships to the planets, and maybe the stars, in the years to come.

[h=2]BONUS: Soliris[/h]

Medical Claim Legal
Cost: $5,000 per 30ml vial.
What you do with it: Pharmaceuticals can be quite expensive largely due to the R&D investments that go into getting to the final product. Considered the world's most expensive drug, Soliris treats a rare, life-threatening disease that destroys red blood cells more quickly than normal. A year's treatment could cost a whopping $569,000.

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