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1. Antimatter – $6.25 trillion per gram

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2. Californium – $27 million per gram

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3. Painite – $9,000 per gram

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4. Diamond – $55,000 per gram

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5 Gold – $56 per gram

Although the price and value of gold does fluctuate quite significantly according to markets, this element has been prized for thousands of years as a symbol of wealth and prosperity.

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6 Rhodium – $58 per gram

Nearly 60% of all rhodium is found in South Africa. A silver-white material that’s a member of the platinum group of metals.

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7 Platinum – $60 per gram

Platinum is another attractive silver-white metal that has many uses due to its flexibility.

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8 Methamphetamine – $100 per gram

As the illegal substance that helped drive the plot of Breaking Bad, methamphetamines are some of the most addictive substances in the world, resulting in serious health problems for hundreds of thousands of people in North America.

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9 Rhino Horn – $110 per gram

A cure to cancer and hangovers are just a couple of the largely unfounded claims of the benefits of this material.

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10. Heroin – $130 per gram

Currently, almost 80% of all opium that’s used in heroin is sourced in Afghanistan. During the 1990s, Latin America was the biggest source of the drug in the United States.

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11 Cocaine – $215 per gram

Another incredibly addictive and expensive stimulant is cocaine, which is derived mostly in South America from the coca leaf.

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12 Lysergic Acid Diethylamide – $3,000 per gram

More commonly known as acid or LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide was discovered by Albert Hoffman in Switzerland in 1938 while attempting to create a substance useful as a psychological remedy.

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13 Plutonium – $4,000 per gram

A cure to cancer and hangovers are just a couple of the largely unfounded claims of the benefits of this material.

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14 Taaffeite Stone – $20,000 per gram

A cure to cancer and hangovers are just a couple of the largely unfounded claims of the benefits of this material.

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15 Tritium – $30,000 per gram

Tritium forms naturally when deuterium or nitrogen atoms are bombarded with cosmic radiation, resulting in a hydrogen nucleus with two additional neutrons.