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.
Sounds like they are sputtering copper but how you get sand (silicon dioxide in the form of quartz) out of it is nonsense, muchless gold.
Actually, I love these kind of articles. They have some journalist that does not have a clue about what they are talking about who writes a ridiculous scenario of copper into gold. But usually they finish with the statement, “All the big problems have been solved and now all we need to do is scale it for manufacturing.” LOL
Where are all the people who scream, “BS!” in every science thread? ... Hmm, nowhere to be seen.
A piece of land with a liar standing on it.
That would make synthetic gold creation look simple.
Smile...
Lets abolish the FED and got with a gold standard. /S
Not only would the Chinese control our money supply since they are the largest gold producer, but now they can cause massive inflation with copper gold.
Those are the people who believe in alchemy. :)
If they could only turn Gold into Rhino Horn...
Almost as impressive as when the Chinese took Melamine and turned it into poison baby formula, killed more than 1,000 babies...and covered it all up until the 2008 Olympics were over.
David Hogg...”almost” Ivy League!
.....or turn gold into bear gall bladder.
And some day in the future, gold will be absolutely worthless.....
Ezekiel 7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
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Well, here's one: and, a scientist, (physical chemist) to boot...
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Argon-sputtered -- or ion-etched/milled -- copper (Cu) is still ...
Period.
If the Chinks got "sand", they have an oxygen leak in their vacuum system.
TXnMA
TXnMA
There goes the gold market.
Copper cannot function as well as gold in industrial applications, mainly because there are fewer electrons subatomic particles with negative charge buzzing around its nucleus.
These electrons are also relatively unstable, so copper tends to react more easily when combining with other chemicals.
The method developed by Suns team can inject a large amount of energy into copper atoms and made the electrons more dense and stable, they said.
I love science when it's so simple.
Its possible to make real gold out of another metal, but it requires a nuclear reaction and is much more expensive than just digging up gold.
This is just a badly written article. This concerns treating copper so it behaves like gold in electronics, thereby making them cheaper.
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