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Anonymous Sun 10 Oct 17:39:26 2021 No.13736883 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13736904 >>13736914 >>13738285

>alchemists try to find a way to convert stuff into gold for hundreds of years
>pass forward until today
>we know that we can convert shit into gold
>it takes so much energy that it's not worth it
>mfw

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Anonymous Sun 10 Oct 2021 17:45:11 No.13736900 Report

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wasnt newton obsessed with alchemy- which, at the time, was illegal?

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Anonymous Sun 10 Oct 2021 17:46:29 No.13736904 Report

Quoted By: >>13737166

>>13736883
>alchemists try to find a way to convert stuff into gold for hundreds of years
They were after the Philosopher's stone; the ability to turn other metals into gold was thought to be merely one of its properties. What they really wanted, is immortality.

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Anonymous Sun 10 Oct 2021 17:48:21 No.13736914 Report

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>>13736883
>fast forward hundreds of years from today
>everyone owns a personal particle accelerator
>normies 3d print gold at school as part of their primary school curriculum.

we were born too early anons

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Anonymous Sun 10 Oct 2021 17:57:38 No.13736934 Report

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yep, says here he was magic
>it takes so much energy that...
maybe because are using electrical energy and not magicks ?

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Anonymous Sun 10 Oct 2021 18:45:08 No.13737052 Report

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semen is magik, you know

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Anonymous Sun 10 Oct 2021 18:51:38 No.13737069 Report

Quoted By: >>13737077 >>13737084

>>13736900
Some speculate his experiments with alchemy mercury might have lead to his early death

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Anonymous Sun 10 Oct 2021 18:54:06 No.13737077 Report

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>>13737069
i dont know enough about it to know. i dont even know where i learned this, but it seemed relevant to the thread
maybe mercury was the wrong element. for me, its definitely seamen. eat this salad for me?

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Anonymous Sun 10 Oct 2021 18:55:32 No.13737084 Report

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>>13737069
>early death
>died at 84
He might have had mercury poison though

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Anonymous Sun 10 Oct 2021 19:20:36 No.13737166 Report

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>>13736904
Yeah, some alchemist on /a/ was describing how they would use dust collected from the atmosphere on a full moon to synthesise it. manna or something, lots of iridium and other metals.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Oct 2021 01:40:08 No.13738258 Report

Quoted By: >>13738270

Gold came from outer space and we cannot re-create the molecules on Earth.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Oct 2021 01:49:42 No.13738270 Report

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>>13738258
Mercury to gold: https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.60.473
Lead to gold:
https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:28044196

Why are you here?

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Anonymous Mon 11 Oct 2021 02:00:36 No.13738285 Report

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>>13736883
"turning lead into gold" has always been and will always be a metaphor for the purification of the soul. Absolutely no one except for literal autists would take that literally.

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Anonymous Mon 11 Oct 2021 02:02:50 No.13738288 Report

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>>13738285
>nobody but literal autists
Buddy, which board do you think you are posting on

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