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[-] [email protected] 138 points 9 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.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

That's why I just buy Gadolinium and slice each atom in half!

[-] threelonmusketeers 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] someguy7734206 20 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

You just have to go slowly and next to the window

[-] [email protected] 79 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 81 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's the fun part. If you take just one proton off, you'll often end up with some gold that just decays back into mercury in a few days. Sell it for a quick prank.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_gold

[-] [email protected] 26 points 9 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] 7 points 9 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

[-] threelonmusketeers 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] Sethayy 10 points 9 months ago

More like put em all together and get even more gold

[-] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Put some sugar on a magnet, that always works

[-] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Just a spoon full of strong force helps the proton stay down

[-] Sethayy 11 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

You have to hold them close for a little bit, and let those positrons vent away.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago

And all those alchemists were starting with lead. What idiots.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago
[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

It's a welcome break from deep fried and cropped porn memes.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Not only that, but also extreme troll physics vibes. Just lacking magnets and tge question how they work.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

How many atoms does 1kg of mercury have?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

30x10^23 atoms according to my calculations.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 9 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

[-] threelonmusketeers 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

3.0022×10^24 atoms, to be precise.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 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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[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

He converted lead into gold and Euros into dollars.

[-] darcy 8 points 9 months ago

wait how has noone thought of this?

[-] Aurenkin 70 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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] 42 points 9 months ago

What do you mean "no one". There is a wikihow guide on this: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Gold-from-Mercury

[-] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Seems easy enough. Off to the nuclear reactor store to get started.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Aw man, all we have near us is IKEA.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Just buy your Nuclear Reactor from IKEA: Stråhlå

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[-] octoperson 13 points 9 months ago

Step two is fiddly

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 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

[-] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

Yeah they didn't have tweezers back then

[-] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Don't be daft, of course they have tweezers back then.

They don't have plastic yet.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

But eletricity didnt exist at the time, so no risk of being electrocuted.

[-] darcy 5 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 9 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] 4 points 9 months ago

Step 2 is expensive :( tweezers ain't cheap!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 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] 3 points 9 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] ThrowawayPermanente 5 points 9 months ago

Dollar dollar bill y'all, get the money

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I love that the face is actually mirrored. 10/10

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 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] 2 points 9 months ago

Cash rules everything around me CREAM! Get the money! Dollar dollar bill yooooo

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