eli5 Why is Gold worth anything?

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Saw this video about gold, it’s chemical structure and malleability. I still don’t understand why gold is worth anything at all……

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Why it’s worth “anything at all”: even if its mystique were wiped out, so that it’s no longer used as jewelry, it will still have purely practical uses in (at the very least) dentistry and electronics; those keep the price from approaching zero.

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