Gold Bullion

pbBullion/b is a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold" title="Gold"gold/a, a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver" title="Silver"silver/a, or other a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precious_metal" title="Precious metal"precious metals/a in the form of bars or ingots. Typically, bullion is used for trade on a market. The word "bullion" comes from the old a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language"French/a word ibouillon/i, which meant "boiling", and was the term used to describe the activity of a melting house.sup id="cite_ref-1"a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullion#cite_note-1"[1]/a/sup/p pThe value of bullion is typically determined by the value of its precious metals content, which is defined by its purity and a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass" title="Mass"mass/a. To assess the purity of gold bullion, the centuries-old technique of a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_assay" title="Fire assay"fire assay/a is still employed, together with modern spectroscopic instrumentation, to accurately determine its quality to ensure the owner receives fair market value for it. It is also weighed extremely accurately./p pRetailers may sometimes market ingots and bars of a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_metals" title="Base metals"base metals/a, such as a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper" title="Copper"copper/a, a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel" title="Nickel"nickel/a, and a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium" title="Aluminium"aluminium/a as "bullion", but this is not a widely accepted definition./p