• @[email protected]
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    1389 months ago

    This doesn’t work because it will also make hydrogen gas that will take up the air in the area you are in causing you to suffocate. I lost a very close friend to this please don’t spread misinformation online.

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        Huh? Wouldn’t that just give you two radioactive isotopes of germanium? (^(154)Gd/2 = ^(77)Ge > ^(76)Ge)

    • @someguy7734206
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      With the right equipment, you can capture the hydrogen and use it to power your hydrogen fuel cell car. So not only do you get free gold, you get free fuel for your car as well.

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    I think you’ll lose like 5 grams from the protons, more cause you might have to remove a couple of neutrons?

      • @[email protected]
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        269 months ago

        I’m a third generation proton plucker myself. Some day, my children’s children’s children may have a good laugh when they finish this bar.

      • @[email protected]
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        79 months ago

        you can find Hg 198 for sale actually. So if you’re a morally pure alchemist you can make the stable isotope of gold

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          How much does isotopically pure ^(198)Hg cost though? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was more expensive than gold…

    • @Sethayy
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      109 months ago

      More like put em all together and get even more gold

      • Pennomi
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        159 months ago

        Anybody have advice for shoving a bunch of protons together? I keep trying but they always fly away from each other.

        • @Sethayy
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          119 months ago

          Yeah just turn up the close nuclear forces a bit and they’ll zoom right together

      • nyoooom
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        259 months ago

        So basically if you handle 1M atoms per second, it would take 95B years to process 1kg…

        It’s really hard to grasp those scales

  • @[email protected]
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    129 months ago

    What a troll - everyone knows if you transform Hg202 into Au201, it will immediately decay back into Hg201 while releasing about 606MJ of energy in the process.

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      19 months ago

      But, if you instead pull of a few neutrons to make Hg197, it will decay in a few days to stable Au197, along with a free neutrino.

  • darcy
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    89 months ago

    wait how has noone thought of this?

    • @Aurenkin
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      Yeah I think there were some folks who thought about splitting the atom right? I forget who.

      Anyway, now I am become wealth, buyer of worlds.

    • @[email protected]
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      99 months ago

      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

      • darcy
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        59 months ago

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

        • Pennomi
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          109 months ago

          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.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      Yeah but it would cost more and take an exorbitant amount of time (like billions of years) to produce anything of value, let alone profit.

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      They have they all died tho cos it makes hydrogen gas and the die and suffocate please like to spread awareness

      • darcy
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        29 months ago

        just hold your breath ???

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    Has that ever worked with mercury? I know I lt worked in a very small number of atoms (about 200) for lead and gold

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    39 months ago

    Fake. The resulting Au201 and Au199 will promptly turn back into mercury. But, if you instead pull of a few neutrons to make Hg197, it will decay in a few days to stable Au197, along with a free neutrino.

  • @[email protected]
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    18 months ago

    Hold up how much do all the protons you removed weigh? You get less than 1kg of gold at the end