Silicon Valley Startup Says It Can Turn Mercury Into Gold on ‘Massive Scale’

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A Silicon Valley startup says it has discovered the pinnacle of alchemy – converting a relatively common metal into gold. Marathon Fusion is proposing a process that uses nuclear fusion to turn mercury into gold, reports the Economic Times. In a scientific paper, the firms says it’s possible to use high-energy neutrons from a fusion reactor to bombard mercury-198, turning it into mercury-197, which then decays into stable gold-197 over a matter of days. The company says the process is extremely ...