Natural Piezoelectric Effect May Build Gold Deposits
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Natural Piezoelectric Effect May Build Gold Deposits
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#2So, in absence of quartz we could put large voltage sources on rocks and get gold out?
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#3That is as close to alchemy as we’re probably ever gonna get then!
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#4So, in absence of quartz we could put large voltage sources on rocks and get gold out?
basically, yes, but the voltage required is very low (what needs to be large is the current), and you need to get the gold to dissolve. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08926... is one of an enormous number of papers on the process, and ipmi has a careers video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAkWMdrLXmo. shandong xinhai mining equipment corporation has a bunch of youtube videos marketing their equipment for this purpose to gold mine owners
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#5So , alchemists might had discovered that somehow ?
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#6That is as close to alchemy as we’re probably ever gonna get then!
Not really I think, as this is not transforming something else into gold, it just kind of lumps existing gold together (if I understood the article correctly).
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#7This isnt a new hypothesis
Several years ago I had read something similar about gold in underground water reservoirs forming along the walls based on … essentially earthquakes
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#8So , alchemists might had discovered that somehow ?
they did have aqua regia, and crystallizing previously dissolved gold from it was, as i understand it, commonplace
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#9So , alchemists might had discovered that somehow ?
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#10Fred Hoyle wrote a pop sci book in the sixties talking about how things worked in early earth formation with prosaic imagery of gold squeezing around in quartz.