A chemical group or molecule that contains and carries gold atoms; a compound that bonds with and transports gold in chemical reactions.
From Latin aurum 'gold' plus Greek -phore from pherein 'to bear or carry.' This is specialized chemistry terminology used in pharmaceutical and materials science research.
In modern medicine, researchers use aurophores to deliver gold compounds directly to cancer cells—it's basically using gold as a bullet to shoot disease, which sounds like medieval alchemy but is actual 21st-century science.
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