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Chinese scientists turn copper into ‘gold’
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| 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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To: Stosh
Whats actually happening is a conversion to a form of copper that provides some catalytic properties similar to those of gold. They start off with copper and they finish with copper and at no point do they actually have gold.
That's what I wanted to see. I don't remember enough chemistry to be able to judge.
The ignorant author of the article thinks we don't see the apostrophes around 'gold'. We ain't stoopid! Gold is not 'gold'.
Some authors will do anything and say anything to get an article in print.
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posted on
12/23/2018 5:40:00 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
To: vannrox
Well, they've been using Harbor Freight to sell the crap they make out of recycled beer cans and stolen US Patents, calling them "tools", for decades.
Why shouldn't they make "gold" out of copper?
Some dumb ass liberal will buy it.
Watch for Glenn Beck to start shilling for it, to be purchased with the mythical "Bit-coin".
China is...well, China, a pejorative statement for any and all CRAP.
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posted on
12/23/2018 6:03:33 AM PST
by
OldSmaj
To: vannrox
Check the dumpster for spray cans of gold paint never trust the Chinese
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posted on
12/23/2018 7:06:00 AM PST
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
To: Brilliant
Yeah, but Chinese brass will stick to a magnet. Home depot is full of it.
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posted on
12/23/2018 8:10:15 AM PST
by
printhead
(I need a new tagline. Happy days are here again.)
To: vannrox
This finding needs to be certified by an expert
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posted on
12/23/2018 8:26:04 AM PST
by
mikrofon
(Blessed Christmas BUMP)
To: mikrofon
Copper thieves are turning copper into green.
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posted on
12/23/2018 8:32:04 AM PST
by
JayAr36
(Organized Crime is now in charge of the District of Corruption)
To: wally_bert
I’ve tried that for cleaning silver with a metal plate - aluminum? - in the water under the silver.
Didn’t work as good as old Wright’s ;-)
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posted on
12/23/2018 9:13:18 AM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it")
To: wally_bert
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posted on
12/23/2018 1:21:03 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)
To: DoughtyOne
It took a second to work out the image.
Glad someone else remembers Girl With The Gold Boots.
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posted on
12/23/2018 1:24:17 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(We're low on dimes in fun city.)
To: wally_bert
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posted on
12/23/2018 1:27:56 PM PST
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DoughtyOne
(01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
To: vannrox
They’ve been filling gold bars with tungsten for years.
Pretty much turning it into gold, only a much simpler process.
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12/23/2018 2:04:00 PM PST
by
Fireone
(Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
To: vannrox
Usual science distortion about a laboratory trick
Process will become practical when Gold hits $55000 dollars an ounce (if not $555000 if they cant techniclaly scale the process)
Also generally atomic element conversion produces ALOT of isotopes that are highly radioactive - another little problem with ‘spinning gold from copper straw’ ...
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12/24/2018 8:00:28 AM PST
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elbook
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