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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Fleur__@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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    • chetradley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • someguy7734206@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • robo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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      • chetradley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Any alchemist worth his salt is worth his gold.

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    • Player2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You just have to go slowly and next to the window

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  • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think you’ll lose like 5 grams from the protons.

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    • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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      • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨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

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    • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      More like put em all together and get even more gold

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      • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • doublejay1999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Krukenberg@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A rage comic? What year is this?

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    • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • DefyTheLegends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      21 minute beta decay back to mercury.

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      • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        half life beta

        Half Life 3 confirmed alright

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      • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        what if you remove another proton from that mercury isotope

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  • Nonononoki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How many atoms does 1kg of mercury have?

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    • SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      30x10^23 atoms according to my calculations.

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      • nyoooom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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

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      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        3.0022×10^24 adams, to be precise.

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  • MooseBoys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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    • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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  • darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    wait how has noone thought of this?

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    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I think there was some folks who thought about splitting the atom right? I forget who.

      Anyway, now I am become wealth, buyer of worlds.

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    • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • octoperson@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Step two is fiddly

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    • Venutianxspring@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨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

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      • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah they didn’t have tweezers back then

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      • darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • eating3645@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Zircon-encrusted

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    • Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Fleur__@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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      • darcy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        just hold your breath ???

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He converted lead into gold and Euros into dollars.

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  • zepheriths@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dollar dollar bill y’all, get the money

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  • brisvag@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • suenoromis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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  • oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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