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Silicon Valley Startup Claims it Can Turn Mercury Into Gold
Marathon Fusion said it's possible to use high-energy neutrons from a fusion reactor to bombard mercury-198, turning it into mercury-197, which then decays into stable gold-197 over a matter of days.
A startup from San Francisco has reportedly developed a fusion power plant that produces gold as a waste product. Do alchemists want to shake the stability of the gold market here?
A U.S. startup wants to have solved the millennia-old mystery of how to make gold from other elements: as a waste product in nuclear reactors. Not only energy, but also the precious metal could possibly be produced virtually unlimited in the future - with dramatic consequences.
A company in the field of fusion energy claims that it has solved an old mystery thousands of years ago: how to transform other metals into gold. Alchemia ("Chrysopoieia", in ancient Greek) is a deep hidden art of ancient civilizations that could be made by means of the thermonuclear fusion used as a source of unlimited energy – a process by which gold could also be obtained from mercury.
“They’ve Cracked the Alchemist’s Code”: US Fusion Firm Claims Reactor Can Turn Mercury Into Gold and Scientists Are Divided
IN A NUTSHELL 🔬 Marathon Fusion claims to have discovered a method to transmute mercury into gold using nuclear fusion technology. 💡 The process involves bombarding mercury-198 with neutrons inside a fusion reactor to create stable gold-197. 💰 This innovation could generate up to $550 million worth of gold per gigawatt of fusion energy annually, [...]
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