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Scientists turn lead into gold for 1st time, but only for a split second (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So... Not really?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago

Counts as long as they found a buyer in that window

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And for 1000000 times the cost of normal extraction probably.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The goal isn't to come up with an economical way to produce gold. Read the last 2 paragraphs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

But consider the last several hundred years of alchemy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I know.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair, we could probably do a lot better if we purpose-built a machine to make gold. And Pb->Au isn't even likely the most ideal path. That was only chosen to fulfill the ancient alchemy dreams.