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Chinese scientists turn copper into ‘gold’
Blacklisted news from SMSP ^ | 22DEC18 | Editorial Staff

Posted on 12/22/2018 6:35:50 PM PST by vannrox

A team of Chinese researchers have turned cheap copper into a new material “almost identical” to gold, according to a study published in peer-reviewed journal Science Advances on Saturday.

The discovery will significantly reduce the use of rare, expensive metals in factories, said the authors.

Professor Sun Jian and colleagues at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Liaoning, shot a copper target with a jet of hot, electrically charged argon gas.

The fast-moving ionised particles blasted copper atoms off the target. The atoms cooled down and condensed on the surface of a collecting device, producing a thin layer of sand.

Each grain of the sand had a diameter of only a few nanometres, or a thousandth of the size of a bacterium.


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KEYWORDS: alchemical; alchemy; blogpimp; china; discovery; fakegold; foolsgold; gold; redchina; scientist
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1 posted on 12/22/2018 6:35:50 PM PST by vannrox
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To: SunkenCiv

Enjoy.


2 posted on 12/22/2018 6:36:10 PM PST by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: vannrox

Alchemy. It’s a hell of a thing...


3 posted on 12/22/2018 6:38:18 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: vannrox

The next time I owe someone money, I will pay them in “a new material “almost identical” to gold”.


4 posted on 12/22/2018 6:39:11 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: vannrox

China. Even their gold is a cheap knockoff.


5 posted on 12/22/2018 6:40:01 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: vannrox

“Crumbs. Just crumbs...”


6 posted on 12/22/2018 6:40:28 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Probably not as it cost more to make this “new” material per oz. than the cost of actual Gold.


7 posted on 12/22/2018 6:41:33 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: vannrox

I have been doing for years by selling off my penny collection and using the proceeds to purchase gold.


8 posted on 12/22/2018 6:41:35 PM PST by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: vannrox

Do not stand in front of a “jet of hot, electrically charged argon gas” or you will turn into thin layer of micro sand.


9 posted on 12/22/2018 6:42:48 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: vannrox

Dear Chinese, “ALMOST” is not “Au”!
Close but no cigar! :>)


10 posted on 12/22/2018 6:43:37 PM PST by TaMoDee (The Pack will be back in 2018! Go Pack!!)
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To: vannrox

Also known as brass.


11 posted on 12/22/2018 6:45:48 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: vannrox

In other news, Chinese scientists turned Emperor Zero’s turds into a substance “almost identical” to Skittles.


12 posted on 12/22/2018 6:45:53 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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"The method developed by Sun’s team can inject a large amount of energy into copper atoms and made the electrons more dense and stable, they said."

NOW I understand. Gold must have electrons that are more dense and stable than electrons in copper. All you have to do is bulk up your electrons, and you will have gold!

13 posted on 12/22/2018 6:46:28 PM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones)
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To: traderrob6
Probably not as it cost more to make this “new” material per oz. than the cost of actual Gold.

They are probably using some sort of modified cyclotron, which consume boatloads of electricity and are very expensive to operate.

Plus, the end product is probably some unstable radioactive isotope.
14 posted on 12/22/2018 6:47:12 PM PST by farming pharmer
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To: vannrox
Alchemists still trying to do the impossible, Chinese ones at that. Title is misleading. They came nowhere close. Deut. 29:29: “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
15 posted on 12/22/2018 6:47:15 PM PST by Fungi
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To: pepsi_junkie

“China. Even their gold is a cheap knockoff.”

Lol


16 posted on 12/22/2018 6:48:25 PM PST by simpson96
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To: pepsi_junkie

...or, finally something they didn’t steal the plans for.


17 posted on 12/22/2018 6:48:57 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: vannrox
Copper has a similar weight and look to gold...

I think they mean specific gravity and appearance, to which their assertion is false on both counts. Sounds like they are performing plasma metal deposition, but reverse engineering a 'science article' geared for bright second graders is a fool's errand.
18 posted on 12/22/2018 6:55:23 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: DoughtyOne

Maybe they could change obozo, poliski, maxine and a lot of others into something useful.


19 posted on 12/22/2018 6:57:14 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: vannrox

When we read the article it doesn’t say what the headline leads people to believe and most people only read headlines if they read at all. Its a shot at Trump. Deflate peoples trust in gold before he dumps the fed. Wont work.


20 posted on 12/22/2018 6:57:32 PM PST by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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