B/c as far as we understand science today, it can't be done with anything like their methods.
These days it is possible to make gold, atom by atom, by using huge particle accelerators and complicated equipment. But that gold actually turns out more expensive than the natural stuff.
Alchemists could not turn metal into gold because gold is an element.
Alchemists, are the ones who tried to turn lead into gold.
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to transmute base metals into gold.
Using magic and chemistry, they attempted to convert lead into gold.
Alchemists could not turn metal into gold because gold is an element.
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They were trying to convert lead into gold.
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One was to find the "philosopher's stone" a device that could turn lead (a base metal) into gold.
Turning metal into gold.
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Alchemists, are the ones who tried to turn lead into gold.
Alchemists tried to make GOLD from base metals. Scientists know that theoretically Gold can only be made by altering the number of protons in an atom. Alchemists did NOT know about protons etc., .
Alchemists believed that mercury could be transformed into other metals,including gold.
No. (In the Middle Ages, alchemists believed that they could transform one metal into another. Sadly, for them, they never were able to succeed at doing so.)
The alchemists were trying to make gold out of ordinary things.