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Alchemists could not make gold out of other metals because gold is an element.
to transmute base metals into gold.
They lived in an age when not much was known about science. They didn't know if it was possible or impossible so they tried.
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Alchemists believed that mercury could be transformed into other metals,including gold.
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Alchemists could not make gold out of other metals because gold is an element.
Early chemists and alchemists were using chemical energy to try to transmute (change) other metals to gold. There is far too little energy in chemical reactions to do this.
to transmute base metals 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., .
Practical alchemists tried to convert iron and other metals into gold. Mystical alchelmists used the qualities of the metals as symbols, so their quest for gold became a quest for perfection.
The scientist were called Alchemists.
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