I tried using an electron plasma beam but the gold just melted again instead of turning to dust like I wanted.

Is there any way to get gold in a mono atomic state without boiling the stuff? I was trying to expose it to plasma in a glass container, plan was to scrap the powder off the glass walls but that method only resulted in a melted pool of gold.

Should I try putting the gold directly into the plasma beam instead of using it as a anode or cathode?

Should I just use tons of current like a car battery?

What's the best way to nuke this stuff into a monoatomic state?

Should I use some high discharge capacitors to blow it to pieces?

I am trying to recreate some occult immortality alchemy recipe written in Sanskrit. Pretty sure they used focused sun rays back then but I do not have a magnifying glass anywhere near big enough.

I could probably boil it if I had to using a high power ZVS induction system but I would have to jury rig some kind of vapor catch and idk how to even go about that.