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"In 2025, CERN scientists at the ALICE experiment announced that in the previous decade, they had used the Large Hadron Collider to induce photon emissions within deliberate near-miss collisions of lead-208 nuclei, turning them into gold-203 nuclei. A total of roughly 270 billion gold nuclei were created over three experiment packages, a miniscule amount."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopoeia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALICE_experiment
https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10...111.054906
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopoeia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALICE_experiment
https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10...111.054906