Combining iron and sulfur, under the proper conditons, will get you pyrite - "fools gold." Seems appropriate.
posting a serious "point" on a forum that is obviously a joke will get you a solid dose of mockery. seems appropriate.
There's no way to make an element out of another element.
There's no way to make an element out of another element.
A heavier element may be turned into a lighter element by the natural process of radioactive decay. This may be by alpha decay (the emission of a helium nucleus) and/or beta minus decay where a neutron is turned into a proton.
This conversion of a heavier element into a lighter element is what occurs in man-made nuclear fission reactions where neutron bombardment splits the atom into smaller products.
The other way an element may be turned into another element is by nuclear fusion whereby two nuclei fuse together to form a heavier element. This is what occurs on the sun.
There's no way to make an element out of another element.
Still holds.
"particle bombardment", radioactive decay, fission, fusion
Really, doesn't count here. Radioactive elements, by definition, aren't stable elements in themselves.
Here is the link to the Royal Society of Chemistry Periodic Table of Elements
http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table
This includes all radioactive elements including the highly unstable Livermodium with its half life of 0.06 seconds and the highly stable Uranium whose 238 isotope has a half life of 4.47 billion years.
If we take Uranium 238, the isotope that occurs in 99 % of naturally occuring Uranium. This will spontaneously decay through several elements to reach lead as shown in the following well known decay series.
If you would like to know about nuclear fission or nuclear fusion I should be glad to dust off my chemistry degree notes/books and tell you more
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Combining iron and sulfur, under the proper conditons, will get you pyrite - "fools gold." Seems appropriate.