What is the gold? or What is gold? Which is correct?
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The answer you want is, almost certainly, What is gold?
What is gold? is a correct English sentence. Here is an example of correct usage.
"What is gold? Gold is a precious metal with the chemical symbol Au."
What is the gold? is not a correct English sentence. It could be part of a correct sentence. It is hard to think of an example, but it is possible.
"That bag of gold must weigh 10 kilograms. What is the gold in that bag worth?"
(The definite article the is used here, because we are not just talking about gold in general. We are talking about a specific mass of gold, the gold in that bag.)
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Under normal circumstances, "what is gold" is correct. Use of the definite article is far less frequent in English than in Spanish. El oro no siempre es el oro en inglés.
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What is the gold? = Que es el oro?
What is gold? = Que es oro?
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