Gold crushed into white powder?

Is it scientifically possible crush gold to a white powder, so that it can avoid metal detection and then reshape it into it's solid/economically rich form again? If so, how is this possible? Is there a name for this process?Gold crushed into white powder?
No, When you pound something into a powder, it's not a chemical change, its a physical change. The metal detector will always go off, so don't try and smuggle gold thru a metal detector. You will ger caught.Gold crushed into white powder?
No, it is not possible.


Gold is an element and its essential properties cannot be altered by crushing. Crushed or not, any metal detector will find it.





That said, it is possible to chemically alter the gold by combining it with another element (like chlorine) to make the compound 'gold chloride'. This compound has no properties similar to gold and could be reduced to a powder. When you want the gold back, you would have to chemically decompose the gold chloride compound back into its elements, recovering the gold.





See link for info on gold choride,
gold, crushed into a powder, is still gold, and thus would not pass through a metal detector, unless the amount of gold was so small as not not set off the detector.





Crushing something like gold into a powder does NOT change its electrochemical properties.





And since gold is ';inert'; (it does not react with other elements to make compounds) there is no way to change its properties.
You cannot physically change, ie crush, anything to get different physical properties. No matter what shape gold is in, metal detectors will still detect it. Physically changing something does not change its color either. So no, this isn't possible.
I'm no einstein but seems like I remember that you can't destroy matter. If gold is there in any form, it will have it original properties and still be detectable.