Researchers Find A Way To Create Solid Gold From a Toxic Liquid.
Alchemists have dreamed for many years of making gold from common metals (writings about mythical philosopher's stone date back to ancient times) A pair of Michigan State University professors have figured out to do it with the help of an extremophile bacteria, Cupriavidus metallidurans, excrete 24-karat nuggets of gold after being fed gold chloride, a naturally occurring liquid compound. "We're transforming something that has no value into a solid precious metal," says MSU microbiology professor Kazem Kashefi.
To display its microbial alchemy, the team built a portable laboratory/art exhibit in Linz, Austria that includes a custom glass incubator. The bacteria, which the researchers discovered were 25 time more resistant to the toxic gold chloride than are other bacteria, metabolized the liquid in just a week.
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Although not a cost effective method of creating a large gold reserve for yourself the fact that bacteria can turn a liquid into gold creates a new thought process relating to worlds that might have vast quantities of gold on it.
If bacteria is able to make gold nuggets then perhaps the gold that we have on our planet was created by bacteria traveling through space during the primordial phase of Earths evolution that came into contact with the various chemicals needed to produce gold chloride that they then fed on to create the gold veins that we have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold
Another positive is if we look at the Witwatersrand Basin and the impact crater that occurred 2.020 billion years ago we can see that yellow layer or where the Cupriavidus metallidurans would have been located on the asteroid and would have been the first area of the surface of the asteroid to come into contact with the Earth and experience the most pressure and heat and other chemical compounds super heated to extreme temperatures to cause the reaction to take place and then because of the reaction being deep underground the bacteria would have been able to convert the gold chloride that when left behind as excrement would have been compressed over billions of years to become nuggets of gold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witwatersrand_Basin
If this event took place on Earth and because of the Uncertainty Principle then is more than likely that more than one asteroid with Cupriavidus metallidurans embedded in its matrix would been roaming throughout the Universe and making similar impacts at around the same time as the impact on Earth took place.
Alchemists have dreamed for many years of making gold from common metals (writings about mythical philosopher's stone date back to ancient times) A pair of Michigan State University professors have figured out to do it with the help of an extremophile bacteria, Cupriavidus metallidurans, excrete 24-karat nuggets of gold after being fed gold chloride, a naturally occurring liquid compound. "We're transforming something that has no value into a solid precious metal," says MSU microbiology professor Kazem Kashefi.
To display its microbial alchemy, the team built a portable laboratory/art exhibit in Linz, Austria that includes a custom glass incubator. The bacteria, which the researchers discovered were 25 time more resistant to the toxic gold chloride than are other bacteria, metabolized the liquid in just a week.
Popular Mechanics - Volume 190, No. 1, 9th page in.
Although not a cost effective method of creating a large gold reserve for yourself the fact that bacteria can turn a liquid into gold creates a new thought process relating to worlds that might have vast quantities of gold on it.
If bacteria is able to make gold nuggets then perhaps the gold that we have on our planet was created by bacteria traveling through space during the primordial phase of Earths evolution that came into contact with the various chemicals needed to produce gold chloride that they then fed on to create the gold veins that we have.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold
Another positive is if we look at the Witwatersrand Basin and the impact crater that occurred 2.020 billion years ago we can see that yellow layer or where the Cupriavidus metallidurans would have been located on the asteroid and would have been the first area of the surface of the asteroid to come into contact with the Earth and experience the most pressure and heat and other chemical compounds super heated to extreme temperatures to cause the reaction to take place and then because of the reaction being deep underground the bacteria would have been able to convert the gold chloride that when left behind as excrement would have been compressed over billions of years to become nuggets of gold.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witwatersrand_Basin
If this event took place on Earth and because of the Uncertainty Principle then is more than likely that more than one asteroid with Cupriavidus metallidurans embedded in its matrix would been roaming throughout the Universe and making similar impacts at around the same time as the impact on Earth took place.
