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MarathonKnitter
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my turn to ask for someone to verify for me...
can you please confirm that
ALCHEMY is an ancient "practice" of turning base metals into gold
and is no longer "practiced."
am i correct??
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Posted 11/7/17 11:54 AM  |
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jlm2008
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my turn to ask for someone to verify for me...
I'm a little confused on the question. Yes Alchemy is a practice, but it is still practiced in different parts of the world.
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| Posted 11/7/17 3:13 PM |
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JDandMe
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my turn to ask for someone to verify for me...
https://www.livescience.com/39314-alchemy.html
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| Posted 11/7/17 3:20 PM |
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GoldenRod
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Re: my turn to ask for someone to verify for me...
We usually think of alchemy as just turning lead into gold, but it's much broader than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy
Yes, there is forms of alchemy still practiced today, just not the base metals into noble metals.
And technically, scientists CAN turn lead into gold.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-lead-can-be-turned-into-gold/
More than 30 years ago nuclear scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California succeeded in producing very small amounts of gold from bismuth, a metallic element adjacent to lead on the periodic table. The same process would work for lead, but isolating the gold at the end of the reaction would prove much more difficult, says David J. Morrissey, now of Michigan State University, one of the scientists who conducted the research. “We could have used lead in the experiments, but we used bismuth because it has only one stable isotope,” Morrissey says. The element’s homogeneous nature means it is easier to separate gold from bismuth than it is to separate gold from lead, which has four stable isotopic identities.
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The cost to change lead to gold is astronomical, though, so it's obviously not something anyone is planning on doing to actually create gold from lead, but it IS possible.
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| Posted 11/7/17 3:25 PM |
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