Re: VMs: "Les Livres Maudits"

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

> Dennis wrote:

> >     He thought you could make gold from tungsten
> boride in an electric 
> > arc plasma?  I don't know, but it seems to me like
> it would take another 
> > environment for such a nuclear reaction.  Can
> anyone comment?  Rene?  Ca 
> > me semble douteux!

I don't know, I'm just a rocket sicentist.
(Actually I am not, but I have some friends who
are :-) )
I agree with your assessment - it seems wrong.
I am reminded about the book by Alaxander Roob
(Alchemie und Mystik) where one of the first 
pictures (of many hundreds) is of a particle 
accelerator, indicating that, nowadays, it is 
possible to make gold from other metals.
It is of course not an economically interesting
idea.
Gems like ruby and sapphire can be manufactured 
at a cost lower than the price of real stones,
which is finding application in "rocket science"
again. Some of the sticks used in satellite
laser ranging, as seen on the following page,
could never be taken from a natural ruby.

http://www.andersonlasers.com/parts.html

Cheers, Rene


		
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