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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

0.995 kg of gold and 5g of protium

Actually less than that because only around 10% of the gold created this way (assuming a natural distribution of Hg isotopes) would be stable, so you'd get a bunch of β particles too. I don't even know how Au-201 would act, and it would comprise 30% of the output.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

21 minute half life beta decay back to mercury.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

half life beta

Half Life 3 confirmed alright

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what if you remove another proton from that mercury isotope

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It decays in like 40 minutes or something back into mercury. If you do it again you get a whole 2 days before, you guessed it, straight to mercury. We have the best elements in the world thanks to mercury.