Timeline for Why were alchemists trying to get gold particularly from mercury?
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| Aug 23 at 5:31 | comment | added | Nilay Ghosh | "I will give a naive and personal answer without any source". That's what we don't need. Answers should always be well researched backed up with sources instead of being a personal answer. | |
| Jul 24, 2023 at 11:52 | comment | added | ACR | Answers to historical questions may require reasonable efforts in a library. The OP has to make an effort given the fact that plenty of historical chemistry books are available on Internet Archive free of cost! | |
| Jul 24, 2023 at 11:50 | comment | added | ACR | Although your thoughts are appreciated but I will have agree with EdV that this answer does not address the original question at all. | |
| Jul 24, 2023 at 11:35 | comment | added | Ed V | The alchemists long predated notions of a periodic table and had no notion that lead, mercury and gold were “neighbors”. They were just dense metals known from antiquity. Thallium was spectroscopically discovered much later. The nucleosynthesis stuff had no relevance. | |
| Jul 24, 2023 at 8:55 | history | answered | M06-2x | CC BY-SA 4.0 |