#alchemy

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fromNature
3 days ago

Alchemy: discredited pseudoscience or chemistry's worthy ancestor?

When physicist Ernest Rutherford and chemist Frederick Soddy discovered nuclear transmutation - the natural decay of one radioactive element into another - in 1901, Rutherford's first cry was of alarm, not delight. "For Mike's sake, Soddy," he chastised his co-worker. "Don't call it transmutation, they'll have our heads off as alchemists!"
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fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

How to Turn Your Power Plant Into a Gold Factory

Last month, a small company in San Francisco announced a plan to manufacture tons of gold by tweaking atoms superheated during nuclear fusion, serving as a side hustle to offset fusion costs.
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fromVG247
4 months ago

There's now an Oblivion Remastered mod that lets you eat rocks

Modder CephalonImp's 'Edible Gems' is a new Oblivion Remastered mod that allows players to consume rocks, gems, and ores, adding unique alchemy effects.
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fromTheregister
5 months ago

CERN boffins turn lead into gold for about a microsecond

CERN successfully transmuted lead into gold, a notion long held by medieval alchemists, through high-speed ion collisions.
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fromMedievalists.net
5 months ago

Medieval Alchemists Were Right! You Can Turn Lead into Gold - Medievalists.net

Modern science achieved what ancient alchemists dreamed of: transforming lead into gold via particle physics at CERN's LHC.
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