Vienna - In the course of a year, the abrasion of wedding rings amounts to the loss of more than 16.7 kilogrammes of gold, worth more than 260,000 euros (411,000 dollars) for married Austrians, a local researcher has found.
In a study released in the Gold Bulletin journal, Georg Steinhauser, a chemist from Vienna's Technical University, quantified the annual losses for the first time following a study in which he used his own gold wedding ring.