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Fusion energy start-up claims to have cracked alchemy.

A fusion energy start-up claims to have solved the millennia-old challenge
of how to turn other metals into gold. Chrysopoeia, commonly known as
alchemy, has been pursued by civilisations as far back as ancient Egypt.
Now San Francisco-based Marathon Fusion, a start-up focused on using
nuclear fusion to generate power, has said the same process could be used
to produce gold from mercury.

In an academic paper published last week,
Marathon proposes that neutrons released in fusion reactions could be used
to produce gold through a process known as nuclear transmutation.

 FT 22nd July 2025, https://www.ft.com/content/06f91e0d-3007-40bd-b785-86fef4890809

July 25, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | technology, USA