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Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider turned lead into gold—by accident

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no amount of chemistry can turn one into the other.

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Modern-day alchemy! Scientists turn lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider

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Scientists turn lead into gold for 1st time, but only for a split second

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This Giant Atom Smasher Turned Lead Into Gold—And Disintegrated It in a Flash!

The world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, has accomplished something ...

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Wait... Did the Large Hadron Collider Just Do Alchemy?

In a paper published in Physical Review C from the team at A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the European ...

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Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold

Once a lead nucleus has transformed by losing protons, it is no longer on the perfect orbit that keeps it circulating inside the vacuum beam pipe of the Large Hadron Collider. In a matter of ...

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Saturday Citations: AI predicts cancer survival outcomes; Hubble spots a wandering black hole

This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the ...

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