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You may be wondering
what I mean, but to turn a metal into gold could be possible and it has already
been happened many times in history.Before Chemistry was a science, there was
Alchemy.In western mystical practice we generally find alchemy as a branch of
it.
Changing the element
requires changing the atomic (proton) number. The number of protons cannot be
altered by any chemical means. However, physics may be used to add or remove
protons and thereby change one element into another. Because lead having atomic
number 82 is stable and it is closed in atomic number to gold which has 79 ,is
a good element to change it in gold but forcing it to release three protons
requires a vast input of energy, such that the cost of transmuting it greatly
surpasses the value of the resulting gold but gold can be acheived.
Transmutation of lead
into gold isn't just theoretically possible - it has been achieved! There are
reports that Glenn Seaborg, 1951 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, succeeded in
transmuting a minute quantity of lead (possibly en route from bismuth, in 1980)
into gold.
In ancient history
people believe in a substance named philosopher's stone which has the
capability to change useless metal in to gold.But the process of achieving such
a substance is not easy only a blessed or enlightened person could get it
throught the means of sprituality.while touching that stone certain type of
mantras or rhythmic pattern are necesssary.Such type of substance also found in
arabic and irani culture called it Kibrit al-Ahmar الكبريت
الأحمر— along with chanting the ayats of al-quaran while performing this.
There is an earlier
report (1972) in which Soviet physicists at a nuclear research facility near
Lake Baikal in Siberia accidentally discovered a reaction for turning lead into
gold when they found the lead shielding of an experimental reactor had changed
to Gold.This process is called nucleosynthesis.
Biological
Transmutation
We all know that the
eggshell contains calcium.While if we don't give calcium to hens.
The French chemist
Vauquelin became intrigued by the quantity of lime which hens excrete every
day. He isolated a hen and fed it a pound of oats which were analyzed for lime
(CaO). Vauquelin analyzed the eggs and feces and found five times more Ca was
excreted than was consumed. He concluded that lime had been created, but could
not figure out how it happened. Later it is analyzed that the magnesium in the
food of hen, changed in to calcium by biological transmutation.It also proves
the transmutation of elements are widely happened in nature.
So transmutation of
gold from another element is not immposible and there is might be some truth in
Alchemy.
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