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.
That's why I just buy Gadolinium and slice each atom in half!
Huh? Wouldn't that just give you two radioactive isotopes of germanium? (^(154)Gd/2 = ^(77)Ge > ^(76)Ge)
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.
You just have to go slowly and next to the window
I think you'll lose like 5 grams from the protons, more cause you might have to remove a couple of neutrons?
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.
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.
you can find Hg 198 for sale actually. So if you're a morally pure alchemist you can make the stable isotope of gold
How much does isotopically pure ^(198)Hg cost though? I wouldn't be surprised if it was more expensive than gold...
More like put em all together and get even more gold
Anybody have advice for shoving a bunch of protons together? I keep trying but they always fly away from each other.
Put some sugar on a magnet, that always works
Just a spoon full of strong force helps the proton stay down
Yeah just turn up the close nuclear forces a bit and they'll zoom right together
You have to hold them close for a little bit, and let those positrons vent away.
And all those alchemists were starting with lead. What idiots.
A rage comic? What year is this?
It's a welcome break from deep fried and cropped porn memes.
Not only that, but also extreme troll physics vibes. Just lacking magnets and tge question how they work.
0.995 kg of gold and 5g of protium
Actually less than that because only around 10% of the gold created this way (assuming a natural distribution of Hg isotopes) would be stable, so you'd get a bunch of β particles too. I don't even know how Au-201 would act, and it would comprise 30% of the output.
21 minute half life beta decay back to mercury.
half life beta
Half Life 3 confirmed alright
How many atoms does 1kg of mercury have?
30x10^23 atoms according to my calculations.
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
3.0022×10^24 atoms, to be precise.
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.
wait how has noone thought of this?
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.
What do you mean "no one". There is a wikihow guide on this: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Gold-from-Mercury
Step two is fiddly
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
Yeah they didn't have tweezers back then
Don't be daft, of course they have tweezers back then.
They don't have plastic yet.
But eletricity didnt exist at the time, so no risk of being electrocuted.
you can make gold from platinum! however this is a net loss as platinum costs more
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.
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.
He converted lead into gold and Euros into dollars.
Dollar dollar bill y'all, get the money
Has that ever worked with mercury? I know I lt worked in a very small number of atoms (about 200) for lead and gold
I love that the face is actually mirrored. 10/10
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