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Anonymous Wed Aug 24 10:00:48 2016 No.8293812 [Reply] [Original]

Hi. I heard gold comes from the degradation of another transuranium element. Which one?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 24 10:28:43 2016 No.8293845 I thought this was the science board. nobody can help me?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 24 10:41:42 2016 No.8293867 I'm no expert but I don't think anything degrades into gold. Nuclear transmutation allows you to make gold from say lead but that doesn't really happen naturally. Gold is made in the 2nd+ generations stars.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 24 10:53:02 2016 No.8293880 >>8293867 gold and lead are very similar and lead comes from uranium so gold must come from another transuranic element

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 24 10:58:43 2016 No.8293885 >>8293880 Fuck off alchemist

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 24 11:17:09 2016 No.8293910 File: 144 KB, 406x594, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Jade Jones Ledecky is the superior attainablefu

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 24 18:38:09 2016 No.8294792 >>8293880 There are 4 decay chain. The first 3 all end in lead because it is stable, the fourth and in thallium. Gold can't be reached as there are other elements with stable isotopes and masses 4n,4n+2,4n+3 and 4n+1 that come after it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 24 23:45:59 2016 No.8295565 >>8293812 ...you heard from where? Your dope-smokin' buddies?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 24 23:48:09 2016 No.8295569 >>8293867 Fire neutrons at it until you knock out the right amount of protons You can make an atom of gold

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 25 07:30:19 2016 No.8296206 File: 22 KB, 457x529, 1471870085716.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8293910 >born in 97 >looks about 35

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 25 07:36:43 2016 No.8296219 >>8293880 >similar >must You look very similar to a chimpanzee. You must be equally as intelligent.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 25 07:54:15 2016 No.8296251 Head about cyclotron anybody? What about getting cyclotron and start with lithium? :D

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 25 11:44:28 2016 No.8296554 >>8294792 I heard gold comes from a transuranic elemt which is not on earth anymore even if my sources are wrong I would like to find out which element this was.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 25 11:53:35 2016 No.8296560 >>8296554 Ask your sources, clearly they're more familiar with mythical extinct elements, then fuck off back to /x/ where you belong

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 25 11:56:29 2016 No.8296563 >>8296560 sadly my sources are dead anon and /x/ knows nothing about their subject matter and let's be honest, most threads are not realy about science, at least mine is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 25 11:59:59 2016 No.8296567 >>8296554 The only transuranic elements that we don't know about are ones that are so unstable they don't exist in nature. Hell we barely can keep half of the ones we have discovered stable enough for study.

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 25 12:01:47 2016 No.8296570 >>8296567 so gold is and always has been gold?

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 25 12:01:48 2016 No.8296571 >>8296206 Iron disciplined exercise is a helluva drug

>>	Anonymous Thu Aug 25 12:03:48 2016 No.8296576 >>8296563 Well as has been said before gold is the product of nuclear fusion in stars. Late in their life.