[vannrox]

Enjoy.

[ClearCase_guy]

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

[pepsi_junkie]

China. Even their gold is a cheap knockoff.

[BradyLS]

“Crumbs. Just crumbs...”

[granite]

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

[Deaf Smith]

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

[TaMoDee]

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

[Brilliant]

Also known as brass.

[fieldmarshaldj]

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

[norwaypinesavage]

"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!

[Fungi]

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.

[SpaceBar]

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.

[gnarledmaw]

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.

[Chode]

and how much did it cost to make these grains of gold???

[super7man]

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

[LibWhacker]

Where are all the people who scream, “BS!” in every science thread? ... Hmm, nowhere to be seen.

[matt1234]

Definition of a gold mine:

A piece of land with a liar standing on it.

[DannyTN]

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.

[Kickass Conservative]

If they could only turn Gold into Rhino Horn...

[montag813]

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.