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Marathon Fusion says it can produce gold as fusion reactor byproduct | Fusion reactors could turn common mercury into gold
The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in quantities that would make Auric Goldfinger blush.
Since the days of the ancient Greeks, practitioners of alchemy pursued the goal of learning how to make the fabled Philosopher's Stone that would allow them to turn base metals like lead, tin, iron, copper, and mercury into gold. However, though they made many discoveries and formed the foundations of modern chemistry, the only gold these alchemists created was what the more unscrupulous among them could con out of greedy backers with dreams of avarice. In the 20th century, physicists cracked the secret of transmutation using the power of the atom, but the amount of gold produced in the laboratory was so minuscule and the process so expensive that it was hardly worth the effort.
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