I think you’ll lose like 5 grams from the protons.
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Zehzin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
roguetrick@kbin.social 8 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.
BossDj@lemm.ee 8 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.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 8 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
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
More like put em all together and get even more gold
pennomi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Anybody have advice for shoving a bunch of protons together? I keep trying but they always fly away from each other.
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And all those alchemists were starting with lead. What idiots.
Krukenberg@feddit.ch 8 months ago
A rage comic? What year is this?
Rooty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a welcome break from deep fried and cropped porn memes.
DefyTheLegends@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not only that, but also extreme troll physics vibes. Just lacking magnets and tge question how they work.
Malgas@beehaw.org 8 months 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.
roguetrick@kbin.social 8 months ago
21 minute beta decay back to mercury.
TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 8 months ago
half life beta
Half Life 3 confirmed alright
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
what if you remove another proton from that mercury isotope
Nonononoki@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How many atoms does 1kg of mercury have?
SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world 8 months ago
30x10^23 atoms according to my calculations.
nyoooom@lemmy.world 8 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@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
3.0022×10^24 adams, to be precise.
MooseBoys@lemmy.world 8 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.
nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months 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@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
wait how has noone thought of this?
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 months 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.
Chariotwheel@kbin.social 8 months ago
What do you mean "no one". There is a wikihow guide on this: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Gold-from-Mercury
octoperson@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Step two is fiddly
Venutianxspring@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 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
Zehzin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah they didn’t have tweezers back then
darcy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
you can make gold from platinum! however this is a net loss as platinum costs more
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 8 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.
Fleur__@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They have they all died tho cos it makes hydrogen gas and the die and suffocate please like to spread awareness
darcy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
just hold your breath ???
rmuk@feddit.uk 8 months ago
He converted lead into gold and Euros into dollars.
zepheriths@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Has that ever worked with mercury? I know I work in a very small number of atoms (about 200) for lead and gold
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Dollar dollar bill y’all, get the money
brisvag@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I love that the face is actually mirrored. 10/10
suenoromis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cash rules everything around me CREAM! Get the money! Dollar dollar bill yooooo
nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 8 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.
oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 7 months ago
Hold up how much do all the protons you removed weigh? You get less than 1kg of gold at the end
Fleur__@lemmy.world 8 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.
chetradley@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s why I just buy Gadolinium and slice each atom in half!
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Huh? Wouldn’t that just give you two radioactive isotopes of germanium? (154/2 = 77 > 76)
someguy7734206@sh.itjust.works 8 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.
robo@feddit.uk 8 months ago
chetradley@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Any alchemist worth his salt is worth his gold.
Player2@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
You just have to go slowly and next to the window