• Venutianxspring@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    This was the idea by alchemy. They thought you could change one element into another. Lead to gold and so forth, but not so easy in medieval Europe

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      you can make gold from platinum! however this is a net loss as platinum costs more

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        You can make gold from hydrogen too! Just gotta put enough of it into one place so it forms a large star, then wait for it to go supernova.