(JaiChai) "Miss Khauta" - Original Sci-Fi and Digital Art
[From the "Women of Planet Aurum" collection on OpenSea and web.curate.style.]
This is Miss Khauta, a pretty Aurumese woman.
About the name -
(Etymology: "khauta" comes from Planet Earth's Sesotho language and means "gold". https://thedifferentlanguages.com/how-to-say-gold/)
Planet Aurum and Its People -
The planet's eponym is "Au", a word that means "Sands of the Sun" in ancient Aurumese; and coincidentally, is also the symbol for element 79 (Au) on Earth's periodic table of the elements: Gold.
[Etymology of "Au": Though the name is Anglo Saxon, gold originated from the Latin Aurum, or shining dawn, and previous Greek idioms.]
While the Earth's crust contains 0.004 ppm of isotope Au-197, naturally occurring gold, Planet Aurum is literally "made of gold".
A gold isotope (Au-198) with the same 79 protons/per atom and identical chemical properties as Earth's element 79 (Au-197) makes up 37% by mass of Planet Aurum's crust.
To put this in proper perspective, think of this.
On Earth, silicon makes up 27.7% of its crust by mass and is Earth's second most abundant element (oxygen being the first).
In other words, given that Planet Earth and Planet Aurum are roughly the same size (12,742 km and 12,749 km, respectively), there's more gold on Planet Aurum than there's sand on Planet Earth.
Consequently, all life on Planet Aurum has adapted to breathing air, eating food and drinking water saturated with gold particles.
The high concentration of isotope Au-198 in the epidermis manifests as the gold pigmentation of the inhabitants' skin.
And the Au-198 gold isotope in the aqueous and vitreous humors (liquid portions of the eye) produces a "prism effect", resulting in the varying shades of their - almost translucent - hazel eyes.
Enjoy the Original Art.
May you and yours be well and loving life today.
In Lak'ech, JaiChai
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