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Post by Phoenix on Oct 7, 2008 7:15:03 GMT -5
Okay I can officially say I was lost on perhaps the 4th post... its too much like high school science for my liking
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Post by Ashe on Oct 7, 2008 8:38:26 GMT -5
Lol.... It really all comes down to gold can not be manufactured by man. It is a naturally occurring substance. Any attempt to duplicate it would be easily detected by any appraiser who is in any way competent.
As to what exactly Black Monster means, I really don't know. I'm rather confused as to that.
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Post by Phoenix on Oct 8, 2008 3:16:46 GMT -5
Ooooohhhhh.. see now I understand... God knows how I ever passed my science exams...ha ha.
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Post by Ashe on Oct 8, 2008 6:42:12 GMT -5
Good. Like I said, I'm unsure what Black Monster's point was. He started by asking about alchemy, which basically the medieval chemical science designed to purify and perfect the performance of chemical experiments and magic rituals. In other words, making something like gold out of lead. He then went on to talk about switching places, so I am assuming that he meant that lead was the more valuable substance and that someone in the past switched their values. I could be very wrong in my take on what he said. But that is what I took him to mean.
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Post by tvirusandfriends on Oct 8, 2008 16:20:06 GMT -5
XP I know its simple but complicated. I know that if you remove one atom or something you can turn the metal he was talking about into gold.....
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Post by Spartan198 on Oct 10, 2008 3:57:22 GMT -5
XP I know its simple but complicated. I know that if you remove one atom or something you can turn the metal he was talking about into gold..... Well, if that's the case, maybe--- just maybe---it is possible to make lead into gold...?
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Post by Ashe on Oct 10, 2008 5:04:40 GMT -5
You may be able to duplicate what gold looks like, but it would always be detectable. There's "Fools Gold", which looks exactly like gold, but isn't and is detectable. I think the only that is the closest they could come.
I mean they do know how to make diamonds, but those are easily detected as made diamonds and in my eyes aren't the same as a real diamond. It is is just a facsimile.
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Post by tvirusandfriends on Oct 10, 2008 23:40:45 GMT -5
I'm confused!!!!!!! lol XD
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Post by black monster on Oct 11, 2008 12:23:16 GMT -5
what i am trying to say is that the scientists succeeded in creating gold in an indirect way.
Miss Scarlett you cook a lot you should understand what i am saying
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Post by Ashe on Oct 11, 2008 17:18:20 GMT -5
But they haven't discovered how to do that. If it could be done, it would have been heard about. That is the type of thing that couldn't be kept quiet. At some time, greed would have gotten the better of someone who knew and would have been leaked. Yes I cook a lot, I have 3 teenage boys... they are bottomless pits. I think I get what you were trying to say. You are talking about something like how gun powder was discovered. And once again, there would be some type of evidence of it's occurrence. And I also don't believe that it is possible to do so.
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Post by black monster on Oct 12, 2008 0:34:10 GMT -5
no you got me wrong what i am trying to say doesn't have any connection with how gun powder was discovered. what i am trying to say is for you s someone who cooks a lot which is cheaper buying a cake from a store or buying the ingredients to cook a cake?
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Post by Ashe on Oct 12, 2008 6:59:30 GMT -5
I didn't say there was a connection. I said it happened like that. Supposedly a cook in China or Japan (And if I remember correctly it was Japan, though I'm not sure at the moment.) many eons ago was trying to make something and accidentally made gunpowder. Or at least that is the story I've always heard. What you are saying really doesn't make a lot of sense. Yes it is cheaper to make the cake than buy one, but gold isn't able to be made by man, only God, so your point is moot.
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Post by Spartan198 on Oct 12, 2008 12:44:17 GMT -5
It was China, not Japan.
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Post by Tanner on Oct 12, 2008 16:39:19 GMT -5
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Post by tvirusandfriends on Oct 12, 2008 21:42:52 GMT -5
what i am trying to say is that the scientists succeeded in creating gold in an indirect way. Miss Scarlett you cook a lot you should understand what i am saying Food?!
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