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Anonymous Tue Jan 5 01:53:11 2021 No.12546743 [Reply] [Original]

How do you turn lead into gold?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 02:05:00 2021 No.12546771 I would mix it in with a llittle merury superheate it into a gas and then bombard it with high levels of electity, radiation, microwaves and any other way I could get my hands on. Then you should have a little gold in the resadue. Get cooking

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 02:10:45 2021 No.12546785 >>12546743 inefficiently

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 02:24:39 2021 No.12546807 If we had nuclear fusion, we would have enough energy to bombard lead with protons to make it into gold. nuclear fusion (or having fuckwads of energy) solves basically everything

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 02:47:35 2021 No.12546857 >>12546785 Yes but how. >>12546807 I thought we could already do this.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 02:52:08 2021 No.12546864 >>12546743 Sell it on eBay, then buy gold.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 03:01:16 2021 No.12546881 >>12546857 Of course we can, just not cost effectively. Fusion energy would make it cost effective

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 03:08:29 2021 No.12546891 >>12546881 But what is the process?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 03:13:07 2021 No.12546899 >>12546743 you pay me a bunch of money and i tell you. as a added bonus you get a matter converter that will also make rare isotopes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 03:15:46 2021 No.12546907 >>12546891 Smash it with protons

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 03:32:17 2021 No.12546935 u can bombard platinum or mercury with neutrons in a fission reactor and get radioactive gold.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 03:43:32 2021 No.12546955 >>12546807 So that's what we're doing with all that tokamak building and whatnot

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 04:00:24 2021 No.12546976 >>12546881 My the time we have cheap fusion, Gold will be quite a bit more abundant due to asteroid mining.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 04:13:16 2021 No.12546999 >>12546864 kek

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 5 08:22:54 2021 No.12547513 File: 236 KB, 1920x1080, science.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12546935 So the only method is neutrons? All the chemistry faggots BTFO'd by physics chads?