How can I turn multiple pieces of lead into gold?

[StopTheMorans]

any alchemists in the Lounge?

[cheezus]

1. i dunno. use them to poison a rich guy?

[StopTheMorans]

2. good answer, do you know any?

n/t

[On the Road]

3. Here's One Way:

"Modern scientists are not adverse to the idea that gold and other metals can be transmuted from materials not containing gold as we recognize it. In fact, scientists already have transmuted gold! It is a terribly expensive process and the amount of gold is tiny, but it has been done. In addition, this man-made gold is radioactive and thus unstable. That is, it does not remain as made for very long. Rather, it changes into something else or just disappears.

----snip

"One ounce of lead treated by Moray's process, and afterward assayed by the Boaz Mine Laboratory, Norris, Mont., showed 35 cents in gold. Five ounces of soil, which assayed no gold at all before treatment, after Moray's treatment, assayed gold content at the rate of $122.50 per ton."

----snip

This and much, much more at:

http://www.keelynet.com/energy/moray1.htm

including metals with 12,000-degree melting points and the mysteries of radiant energy.

[TXlib]

4. You beat me to it!

[On the Road]

8. Really?

I just did a search on Yahoo, and this guy's popped up. Love it -- classic lunatic science.

[StopTheMorans]

5. well well well

ask and you shall receive eh? sounds expensive; think I'll wait til it gets cheaper:)

[TXlib]

6. The universe transmutes iron into gold regularly

Every time a massive star ends in a supernova. Every chemical element with an atomic number greater than that of iron is primarily made in supernovae, with a smaller fraction made by interaction of lighter nuclei with cosmic rays.

[catmandu57]

7. First, you need the hymens of ten virgins

a vial of contrdicta rice's spit, a piece of gw's* foreskin, and the secret incantation that is stored with saddam's wmds.

[jmowreader]

9. Go here, they'll fix you up

http://www.fnal.gov

Alchemy isn't what you need. High-energy physics is.