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Physicists Turned Lead Into Gold—for a Fraction of a 2nd

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Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider turned lead into gold—by accident

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no amount of chemistry can turn one into the other.

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Modern-day alchemy! Scientists turn lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed of turning lead into gold — not through magic, but by unlocking the hidden potential within metals themselves. While their methods never panned out, those of modern science finally have.

Physicists Turned Lead Into Gold—for a Fraction of a Second

Instead of using the Large Hadron Collider to smash atoms together, researchers briefly turned lead into gold by facilitating near-misses.

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Wait... Did the Large Hadron Collider Just Do Alchemy?

In a paper published in Physical Review C from the team at A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the European ...

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This Giant Atom Smasher Turned Lead Into Gold—And Disintegrated It in a Flash!

The world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, has accomplished something ...

Physicists turn lead into gold — for a fraction of a second

Colliding beams of lead create fast-moving, short-lived gold ions. Understanding the process could help to refine ...

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Saturday Citations: AI predicts cancer survival outcomes; Hubble spots a wandering black hole

This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the ...

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