A standard gold bar weighs 12.4 kg (-27.4 lbs for those of you still stuck in the English system). In one of my favorite old time movies bank robbers steel gold bars, melt the gold to its liquid form and then pour it in little Eiffel Tower molds that they intend on getting out of the country as souvenirs. Here is some information you may need to help our robbers along: Property For gold, Au melting 1064 C point heat of 13.2 kJ fusion mole specific 0.128 J heat 9.K Say our robbers steel 3 gold bars. How much heat in kJ will they need to melt that much gold?