X-Message-Number: 14808
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 03:35:19 PST
Subject: Re: identity and the alchemist quest for gold
From: Edgar W Swank <>

"Raphael T. Haftka" <> wrote in Cryomsg 14726

  ...  Hundreds years ago, when people did not know much about
  chemistry and nuclear physics, many believed that they could
  make gold from other materials. ...

Uh, we CAN make gold from other materials, just not by chemical
processes and it's too expensive for most purposes. If we
put mercury in a partical accelerator or a nuclear reactor, we
get small amounts of isotopically pure gold, which can then be
chemically separated from the mercury.

Edgar W. Swank   <>
President - American Cryonics Society
http://www.jps.net/cryonics/

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