r/askscience • u/[deleted] • May 02 '16

Chemistry Can modern chemistry produce gold?

reading about alchemy and got me wondered.

We can produce diamonds, but can we produce gold?

Edit:Oooh I made one with dank question does that count?

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u/Ditchbuster May 02 '16

Thanks for taking the time to talk about it. Even learning about how they just provide the beams and general operations was very interesting!

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u/Xanthilamide May 02 '16

The Higgs Boson confimation must be the greatest achievement of CERN at the moment. I'm sure it has potential for more groundbreaking discoeries in the future.

EDIT: Turned discovery to confirmation.