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Chemistry is the term used today and no longer has any racist connections in this day and age.

Alchemy is a term for the belief that ordinary elements could be changed to gold.

 

Either change the topic to chemistry or go back to the middle ages from whence you came.

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Google the history of the word 'Chemistry'. Its french and racist' date=' as it was changed to be mean to Arabs

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So you were talking about chemistry, then.

 

And you're either trolling or being idiotic. It carries no negative connotations in this day and age.

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Damn you and thy horible logc. Burnest though in hell.

 

Nope' date=' I'm gonna be politically correct

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No, you're not. Stop being stupid.

 

And to get back to the actual topic, I'm taking a chemistry course at my college. Got a B the first quarter, hoping to get an A this quarter. I had a horrible chemistry teacher during high school (if you could even call her a teacher), so I feel I'm doing quite well, all things considered.

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Google the history of the word 'Chemistry'. Its french and racist' date=' as it was changed to be mean to Arabs

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So you were talking about chemistry, then.

 

And you're either trolling or being idiotic. It carries no negative connotations in this day and age.

 

Many words lose their connotation in todays society. Unfortunately, we start to use some words like retarded negatively, instead of its proper use meaning that a person is mentally late in aging.

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Wait, I just remembered that the concept of alchemy is possible. By shoving protons into lead it changes the lead into new substances. If enough protons are shoved in then the lead will become gold.

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Wait' date=' I just remembered that the concept of alchemy is possible. By shoving protons into lead it changes the lead into new substances. If enough protons are shoved in then the lead will become gold.

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Leaving aside how insanely difficult it is to "shove protons" into an atom, lead already has three more protons per atom than gold does. You'd have to somehow extract protons for it to work.

 

It is theoretically possible if you can induce the correct type of radioactive decay - alpha emission, positron emission, and electron capture will all reduce the number of protons in the nucleus - but it certainly isn't efficient.

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Wait' date=' I just remembered that the concept of alchemy is possible. By shoving protons into lead it changes the lead into new substances. If enough protons are shoved in then the lead will become gold.

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Leaving aside how insanely difficult it is to "shove protons" into an atom, lead already has three more protons per atom than gold does. You'd have to somehow extract protons for it to work.

 

It is theoretically possible if you can induce the correct type of radioactive decay - alpha emission, positron emission, and electron capture will all reduce the number of protons in the nucleus - but it certainly isn't efficient.

 

Not to mention that the Gold would be radioactive.

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Wait' date=' I just remembered that the concept of alchemy is possible. By shoving protons into lead it changes the lead into new substances. If enough protons are shoved in then the lead will become gold.

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Leaving aside how insanely difficult it is to "shove protons" into an atom, lead already has three more protons per atom than gold does. You'd have to somehow extract protons for it to work.

 

It is theoretically possible if you can induce the correct type of radioactive decay - alpha emission, positron emission, and electron capture will all reduce the number of protons in the nucleus - but it certainly isn't efficient.

 

Not to mention that the Gold would be radioactive.

 

Not if the unstable isotope of [whatever the penultimate step is] decays into a stable isotope of gold.

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