Can Lead Actually Turn into Gold?

Is it actually possible to turn lead into gold? With scientists’ efforts and their creativity, we finally found “the real philosopher’s stone" and can turn lead into gold...somewhat. Join Michael Aranda for a new episode of SciShow! We re conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017 ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: KSam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, Inerri, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Bella Nash, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Fatima Iqbal, Justin Lentz ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989051/ https://web.lemoyne.edu/giunta/RUTHERFORD.HTML https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01505547 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01571171 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v114/n2858/abs/114197a0.html http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v131/n6/index.html http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v133/n5/index.html http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v134/n4/index.html http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v138/n3/index.html https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.60.473 https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.23.1044 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0375947489903965 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-lead-can-be-turned-into-gold/ https://chem.libretexts.org/Core/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry/Atomic_Theory/Isotopes https://chem.libretexts.org/Core/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry/Nuclear_Chemistry/Radioactivity/Artificially_Induced_Radioactivity https://chem.libretexts.org/Core/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry/Nuclear_Chemistry/Radioactivity/Decay_Pathways https://books.google.com/books/about/The_self_splitting_atom.html?id=_i-aAAAAIAAJ https://indico.fnal.gov/event/11150/session/1/contribution/76.pdf Image Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Miethe#/media/File:Nicola_Perscheid_-_Adolf_Miethe_um_1905.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nagaoka_Hantar%C5%8D#/media/File:Hantaro_Nagaoka.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Soddy.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernest_Rutherford_(Nobel).jpg