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To: Jon Matz who wrote (14352)	2/24/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Gold has been synthesized from lead, but at millions or billions of times its mining cost. So when I asked how he expected gold to be made I guess I should have clarified that I wondered ho he expected gold to be made in meaningful amounts at anywhere near the cost of mined gold. I don't see it myself.

To: Jon Matz who wrote (14352)	2/24/1998 1:37:00 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Not true, we can make them. Precisely what's going on in a nuclear bomb. -Vi

To: Jon Matz who wrote (14352)	2/24/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 94695

???? Boy, I think you better get your science books out before you post on this subject again. Can't make elements? Nuts! We've been doing it for over 50 years! Uranium is the element with the highest naturally-occurring atomic number---92. We have made about 20 more elements; I believe we're up to 112 now. Plutonium, used in one of the bombs dropped on Japan, is an artificially-created element. It is commonplace now to change one element into another. Any isotope of any naturally occurring element can be made from any other if you have enough time and energy.

To: Jon Matz who wrote (14352)	2/24/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Respond to of 94695

Jon; I'm not a science major, but I happen to know that we have made elements, and at the atomic level that are not to be found any were in the universe. Perhaps GOD sometimes works through the hands of man. But the old thingy that we can only discover went out the window a long time ago. We damm sure can create elements, and have done so. --------------------- BTW your great grand father, or maybe his father, never ate a lot of the food we take for granted today. The tangerine, Coliflower, and broccoli come to mind ..none of them were GOD made in the sense you are referring to they never existed anywhere, basically they are not natural. Coliflower can about in Mark Twains days..he called it the cabbage with a collage education. Don't make me do your home work, look up the basic elements, you will find reference to some rather new ones, ( that we did not discover, but made ) Jim