How do you extract gold from a mixture of metals and chemicals?

Answer 1

-You sell the base metals, then take the money and buy gold with it. -By means of nuclear reaction, when an atom decays it will turn into different atom. But it's not so easy to do that. Like Hydrogen + Hydrogen will become Hydrogen gas in normal reaction but in nuclear reaction it will turn into Helium

Answer 2

The answer is that you can only make it gold-colored.* This can be done by plating it with a thin layer of real gold or a gold-colored metal like brass, or by exposing it to some acids that react with nickel to produce a similar color. Occasionally heating a coin will make it appear brassy or golden in color as well.

(*) Look up the term "philosopher's stone" some time!

Answer 3

By delivering a electron into the nuclei of Hg, and thus change a proton into neutron, it is possible to turn Mercury into gold

(the process is called the "Electron Capture")

201......0......201.......0

.....Hg + e -> .....Au + γ

.80......-1.......79 .......0

this process however is very difficult to happen given that the electron have to avoid being affected by 80 other electrons in the way

while having a right on collision powerful enough with the proton in the nuclei

not to mention that the electron could've ran into a neutron instead

basically the Alchemy stuff is possible but far from practical

Answer 4

Other metals can be converted to gold, but not in a conventional chemical reaction. To carry out the transmutation of another element to gold requires, in most cases, the use of a nuclear reactor or a neutron source

Neutrons were used to bombard mercury in the first man-made reactions that made Gold in 1941, although the isotopes that were created were all found to be radioactive. Irradiation of either mercury or platinum in a nuclear reactor also produces gold. Lead has also been converted to gold in similar ways - however, the cost of these experiments far outweighs the value of any gold produced; it is actually easier to convert gold into lead in a nuclear reactor.

Answer 5

In several ways, one - to dissolve base metals with 20% nitric acid, then

dissolve noble metals with hot aqua regia, which is a solution of 3 parts hydrochloric acid and 1 part nitric acid. Then, selective precipitation of gold

Answer 6

using mercury

Answer 7

Rachel salyn

Answer 8

you cant