Chemistry
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Author: Julia Burdge
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 20.5, Problem 1PPC
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One of the major aspirations of alchemy, the historical precursor to chemistry, was the transmutation of common metals into gold—- although transmutation as we know it was not a process that was known to alchemists. Explain why we still mine gold today, despite the fact that it can be produced via transmutation of mercury.
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