• @Fleur__
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    1381 year 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.

  • @Zehzin
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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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        261 year 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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        71 year 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
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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…

      • Pennomi
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        161 year ago

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

          • @TheYear2525
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            131 year ago

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

        • @marcos
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          51 year ago

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

  • @doublejay1999
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    471 year ago

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

    • @Rooty
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      121 year ago

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

    • @DefyTheLegends
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      61 year ago

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

  • @Nonononoki
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    141 year ago

    How many atoms does 1kg of mercury have?

    • @SmoothIsFast
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      201 year ago

      30x10^23 atoms according to my calculations.

      • nyoooom
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        251 year 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

  • @MooseBoys
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    121 year 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year 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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    71 year ago

    wait how has noone thought of this?

    • @[email protected]
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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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      81 year 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

      • @Zehzin
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        321 year ago

        Yeah they didn’t have tweezers back then

        • RandomStickman
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          Don’t be daft, of course they have tweezers back then.

          They don’t have plastic yet.

          • @LuckyBoy
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            51 year ago

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

      • darcy
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        51 year ago

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

        • Pennomi
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          111 year 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.

    • @eating3645
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      41 year ago

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

      • Optional
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        31 year ago

        Zircon-encrusted

        • swab148
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          21 year ago

          Where am I gonna get a pygmy pony at this hour?

    • @Pregnenolone
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      41 year 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.

    • @Fleur__
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      31 year ago

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

  • @zepheriths
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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

  • @[email protected]
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    31 year 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.

  • @suenoromis
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    21 year ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

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