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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 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.