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Mercury cannot be converted to gold. Mercury has long been used to recover small particles of gold. When mercury and gold are combined, the mercury sticks to the small particles of gold making a larger piece of a substance known as amalgam. These larger pieces are easier to rocover than the small gold particles. When amalgam is heated, the difference in evaporation temperatures (mercury has a very low one) causes the mercury to vaporize and leaves the gold behind. This is only safely done in a retort where the process is in a sealed environment and the mercury can be condensed back to a liquid and recovered. Mercury vapors are VERY toxic and uncontrolled condensation of mercury will contaminate soil and is very difficult to clean up.

2006-08-24 12:10:04 · answer #1 · answered by ©2009 7 · 0 1

ok - the two one in each of those transmutation questions might desire to do with the previous Alchemists that attempted to do this. Mercury on account so which you may use it to chop up the fabric from the uncooked ore and Lead because of the fact this is on the brink of gold in weight so as that they concept it'd be a small step. using fashionable technology we are able to state that the two must be achieved yet in basic terms utilising severe potential strategies that value way greater advantageous than the exchange in fabric you get out is worth and it is going to be noticeably radioactive for a protracted time. in spite of the regular brush aside you will get on any question approximately transmutation of components you may factor out to all the people who inform you procedures impractical this is that the generally regular view of the universe has all of it commencing out with Hydrogen atoms (the smallest and maximum common) and during a protracted/brief time and a huge/small area being subjected to sufficient forces (as a rule due the conflict of what are be conscious of as solid and vulnerable forces that the atoms themselves generated) they replaced into all the different components that exist. so which you may not do this however the universe and regulations it become setup to run via (god in case you desire to call it that) did.

2016-12-14 09:00:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

Mercury was once used in the amalgamation process of refining gold and silver ores

2006-08-20 19:24:38 · answer #3 · answered by Joe P 4 · 0 0

No possible!

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I would suggest you look into large nuggets!

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Their museum nuggets are at:
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2006-08-22 04:01:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

This can be possible by nuclear reaction.

Mass no. 200 ....................... Mass no. 197
(Mercury) Hg (proton,alpha) Au (Gold)
Atomic no. 80 ...................... Atomic no. 79

It may be possible by proton bombardment to Mercury which may lead to nuclear reaction there by producing gold and an alpha particle (doubly charged Helium nucleus with at. no. 2 and mass no. 4).

2006-08-20 20:31:40 · answer #5 · answered by dinu 3 · 0 0

to the contrary of modern scientists, It can be done, and it has, some still doing it today.

2006-08-20 19:21:39 · answer #6 · answered by Hathor 4 · 1 0

by alchemy

2006-08-20 19:20:56 · answer #7 · answered by neal_rockstar_superstar_hero 1 · 1 0

doesnt happen. alchemy doesnt work, we tried that...a long time ago

2006-08-20 19:20:47 · answer #8 · answered by plstkazn 3 · 0 1

no other way but by magic.

2006-08-20 19:25:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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