This is the November 1924 issue - around the same time that Hantaro Nagaoka was claiming mercury to gold transmutation. However, this story comes from Germany. It is also a bit flaky (talking about removing electrons).
Article here: GOLD_SAI_Nov_1924.pdf
Note that the Wikipedia entry for Hantaro Nagaoka says that he bombarded mercury with neutrons. That is rather curious, since the neutron wasn't discovered until 8 years later...
Here most of people trust in their own gods however i think that electron capture never was enough fashion...
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This is the November 1924 issue - around the same time that Hantaro Nagaoka was claiming mercury to gold transmutation. However, this story comes from Germany. It is also a bit flaky (talking about removing electrons).
Note that the Wikipedia entry for Hantaro Nagaoka says that he bombarded mercury with neutrons. That is rather curious, since the neutron wasn't discovered until 8 years later...
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Never understood this obsession with gold.
Anyway, out of having some intellectual fun I have thought of ways to use LENR to get certain elements from treating batches of concentrated solutions of cheaper salts as has been attempted to be patented by Dr. Ryushin Omasa. It requires a liquid based system as one has to circle the solution through one or more selective ion exchange resins that gets the desired product out of the mixture as soon as it is formed, to avoid it getting transmuted further. There are several ion exchange resins that have higher affinity for a reduced type of ions so this could be a way to “mine” stuff from a transmutation broth.
Cardone et al did not turn much of their Mercury into gold, tho. But they got a lot of Titanium and Bromine. I wonder if that is economically interesting.
easy to do Gold from Mercury by electron capture..
Now i don't know how much this kind of reaction could be energetic ?
Does anyone have a calculator for hypothesis quick simulations ?
Cardone et al did not turn much of their Mercury into gold, tho. But they got a lot of Titanium and Bromine. I wonder if that is economically interesting.
Not really. And it is very difficult to buy bulk mercury in the EU.
The Aureon / Safire thread reminded me of this thread.
I've just had another quick look at the wikipedia entry for Hantaro Nagaoka - and it is still claiming that he synthesised gold from mercury, in 1924, by using neutron bombardment. However, not only was the neutron unknown in 1924, the referenced document doesn't actually mention Nagaoka. I guess this is just another example of wikpedia's "move along, nothing to see here" approach to LENR.
Interestingly, the document referenced is this one, by Miethe (the researcher mentioned in the Hugo Gernsback article).
Miethe, A. Der Zerfall des Quecksilberatoms. Naturwissenschaften 12, 597–598 (1924).
In it, Miethe does indeed talk about the mercury to gold transmutation - but also mentions that the post-experiment mercury contained numerous other "contaminants" which were not present at the start. Maybe his ecstasy at discovering gold blinded him to the potential significance of other, less glamorous, synthesis products.
Well, transmutation is what drives the process presented by Aureon in their latest video, but they are focusing in radioactive isotope stabilization for commercial reasons. This is why I posted only research addressing radioactive elements there. There is another paper by a Japanese team with reduction of K40 radioactivity by cavitation, but the pdf I have has a glitch in the fonts and only the very brief English abstract is readable.
From the collection of Larsen’s papers that I’m assembling:
And inspection of the elements produced in John LeClair's cavitation experiments show the appearance of gold (Au197) in the list of transmuted elements, and quite a goodly amount.
I think Monty Childs, and his associates, need to be congratulated for keeping their heads screwed on, and not being distracted by shiny things...
Totally agree.
I hope to get Monty back to make another video in the New Year. He's been busy moving labs for awhile.
One century ago, second LENR LELR research program in the world. Wendt & Irion , Chicago University.
One century ago, second LENR LELR research program in the world
Arguably, before the Cockcroft & Walton accelerator (1932), all nuclear research was low energy...
I remember a report of making gold from Mercury. There was a movement that was replacing mercury switches, mercury lights and etc to minimize exposure to mercury. The mercury was then converted to stable form to bury it in Canada. One of scientists came up with making gold.
The problem is that some mercury was used to mine gold. To verify if an electric arc to mercury creates gold, I first evaporated the mercury to remove the gold (the source it used was used to mine gold). Then I exposed the purified mercury as an electrode in an arc through hydrogen for period of time, then evaporated the mercury a second time. I found a flake of gold was left when the supposed purified mercury was evaporated. I was not impressed.
An arc in hydrogen can create pseudo-neutrons as a result of electrogravity. One of the isotopes of mercury can be converted to gold by pseudo-neutron absorption. It would be a difficult business to pursue.
