Why gold loves arsenic (2021)
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Why gold loves arsenic (2021)
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Re: Why gold loves arsenic (2021)
#2So what you are saying is that fool's gold isn't totally foolish.
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#3With this sympathy between gold and arsenic discovered, we’re one step closer to the philosopher’s stone.
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#4It loves mercury too which is also toxic. Interesting.
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#5Having panned for gold in Gympie I was convinced I'd come home with a lot of pyrites and now 30 years later I feel I need to revisit that tiny jar of yellow dust.
(Got a killer dose of sunburn just above the bum crack bending over in the stream with my pan, a reminder sunscreen has to go EVERYWHERE.)
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#6It loves mercury too which is also toxic. Interesting.
But mercury-gold amalgam, maybe different chemistry at play?
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#7If you have lots of gold, have your food tested for arsenic.
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#8Genuine question for an outsider: would this imply that gold can be created? My memories from the last chemistry class I had, I clearly remember my teacher demonstrating philosopher stone ( aka changing materials in gold ) was feasible.
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#9Genuine question for an outsider: would this imply that gold can be created? My memories from the last chemistry class I had, I clearly remember my teacher demonstrating philosopher stone ( aka changing materials in gold ) was feasible.
This article is about arsenic minerals acting like a sponge that holds and concentrates gold from the surrounding environment that it comes in contact with. It isn't creating new atoms of gold.
Gold can be created through an unrelated process of nuclear transmutation, but it's impractically expensive [0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_of_precious_metals#G...
Re: Why gold loves arsenic (2021)
#10Fascinating read! So if arsenic helps gold concentrate in deposits, does this mean arsenic-rich environments are better places to prospect? Or is it more about how existing deposits form rather than finding new ones?