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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.

Phys.org on MSN · 4d

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.

Newsweek on MSN · 5d

Alchemists' Dream Realized As Lead Turned Into Gold at Large Hadron Collider

CERN's ALICE experiment turned lead into gold—briefly—reviving alchemists' old dreams with modern nuclear physics.

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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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Scientists turn lead into gold for 1st time, but only for a split second

The Large Hadron Collider created 89,000 gold atoms per second. In a breakthrough that would make medieval alchemists envious, scientists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider have ...

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Physicists accidentally turn lead into gold when mimicking the Big Bang

Scientists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accidentally made gold in an effort to mimic the state of the Universe just after the Big Bang. While smashing lead atoms into each other at ...

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