On the plus side, the White House would look a lot less gaudy.

Wouldn't we still have quarter of the gold? Or maybe all gold would get less dense by three quarters since its the atoms getting snapped... 🤔

All technology would instantly halt.

The actual bond wires between the silicon pad and chip packaging for every chip with some kind of leads (feet) is actually an extremely thin thread of pure gold. It has to do with the super tiny size of the actual pads that are being bonded on the die, the robotics, the welding, and the physical properties of the wire connection.

Plot Twist, you input the target as "Gold", but the alien's universal translator was made in China, therefore it converts into the character 金... they get confused and wiped out the entire Kim Dynasty (Kim is written as 金 in Hanja)

Now you have a bunch of angry generals with nukes...

Good Luck.

I'd be more worried about zinc oxide.

I'd be more worried about rare earth metals like ruthenium or iridium. They're used in many industries, not least in chlor-alkali electrolysis which is often used for water purification.