pure_light6 said:
Hi again..
Any way this process is the easy process, it transmute the outer atoms of the silver shots into GOLD.
OKKKK. Physics 101.
What is an atom. Atoms are make of several items, Some we don't quiet understand yet but I'll try to fill you in here. Since your specialty appears to be computer science.
Atoms are composed of ( Starting from the inside moving out ) protons, neutrons and electrons. Protons carry a positive electrical charge, electrons carry a negative electrical charge and neutrons carry no electrical charge at all. The protons and neutrons cluster together in the central part of the atom, called the nucleus, and the electrons orbit the nucleus. A particular atom will have the same number of protons and electrons and most atoms have at least as many neutrons as protons.
Protons and neutrons are both composed of other particles called quarks and gluons. Protons contain two up quarks and one down quark while neutrons contain one up quark and two down quarks. The gluons are responsible for binding the quarks to one another. The electrons are what is responsible for hold molecules together.
A single atom is the smallest unit of matter that is recognizable as a chemical element. What i am saying is that if you could take some matter (remember this is anything in the universe) and break it down you would see that it is made of compounds and molecules. The compounds and molecules are made up of elements.
If you then broke that element down as small as you could then you would have an atom. (To imagine this think of a Lego castle which represents matter. The castle is made up of walls, bridges, rooms, etc. These represent the compounds and molecules. The walls and such are made up of individual Legos which represent elements. If you were to remove all of the Legos in a wall and separate them then each individual Lego would be an atom).
Now lets look at what makes a element such as this mystery gold. First look at the periodic table of the elements. What is the difference in lead and gold you might ask. well Lead (atomic number 82) and gold (atomic number 79) are defined as elements by the number of protons they possess. If we were to take 3 protons from lead we would have gold. Yippee. Now can this be done? yep. But can it be controlled and replicated. Hummmm, Nope !!!! Let's go further.
Because lead is stable, forcing it to release three protons requires a vast input of energy. Can we do this ? Yep take one neutron and kick it in the ass to get it to going real fast and then aim it at the bulls eye. This usually takes about two hundred million eV of energy for this to happen. By contrast, most chemical oxidation reactions (such as refining gold with chemical energy <acids> which only effect the electrons) take at most a few eV. It would take at least ten million times more usable energy to remove the protons than it would take to just dissolve the substance in an acid. Electrons are controlled by what is called the weak nuclear force. The variation in specific binding energy with atomic number is due to the interplay of two fundamental forces acting on protons and neutrons that make up the nucleus. Nuclei are bound by an attractive strong nuclear force between nucleons, which overcomes the electrostatic repulsion ( push ) between protons. However the strong nuclear force only acts over very short ranges.
I could go on and on about why it can't be done. Is that saying it can't be done. Nope. Just that it can't be done and controlled. There are reports that Glenn Seaborg a 1951 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, succeeded in transmuting a minute quantity of lead (possibly en route from bismuth) into gold in 1980. 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.
So i would have to say pack up what you have and send it to me and i will let you know. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Good reply Harold. :wink:
!
