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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That's why I just buy Gadolinium and slice each atom in half!
You just have to go slowly and next to the window
I think you'll lose like 5 grams from the protons, more cause you might have to remove a couple of neutrons?
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.
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.
you can find Hg 198 for sale actually. So if you're a morally pure alchemist you can make the stable isotope of gold
And all those alchemists were starting with lead. What idiots.
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.
21 minute half life beta decay back to mercury.
half life beta
Half Life 3 confirmed alright
what if you remove another proton from that mercury isotope
It decays in like 40 minutes or something back into mercury. If you do it again you get a whole 2 days before, you guessed it, straight to mercury. We have the best elements in the world thanks to mercury.
A rage comic? What year is this?
It's a welcome break from deep fried and cropped porn memes.
Not only that, but also extreme troll physics vibes. Just lacking magnets and tge question how they work.
How many atoms does 1kg of mercury have?
30x10^23 atoms according to my calculations.
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
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.
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.
He converted lead into gold and Euros into dollars.
Has that ever worked with mercury? I know I lt worked in a very small number of atoms (about 200) for lead and gold
I love that the face is actually mirrored. 10/10
Cash rules everything around me CREAM! Get the money! Dollar dollar bill yooooo
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.
Hold up how much do all the protons you removed weigh? You get less than 1kg of gold at the end