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Originally posted by OrganizedChaos
reply to post by aoi3610
Nope, lead and other dense materials are practically useless for blocking neutron radiation. Gamma maybe, not neutron. You need a lower atomic number to block neutrons. Gold becomes radioactive when exposed to neutrons.
Radiation Shielding
Originally posted by StlSteve
Really a fact? What are you a Fox news reporter?
Originally posted by OrganizedChaos
Gold is irradiated with neutrons to create AU198, a radioactive isotope of Gold, and is used in treating cancer.
This question is FASCINATING! And, after negotiating a maze of conspiracy sites claiming that "Monoatomic Gold" is either a sinister Illuminati plot towards world domination (or is the greatest breakthrough in medical history) I think I have manged to distill some facts for you.
Depending on who you believe, monoatomic gold was originally taken by the egyptians or the sumerians in the form of some sort of "manna" called "MFKZT", if you can believe that, as a triangular bread-like substance that often appears depicted in the hands of pharoahs and high priests (on tomb walls). It was seen as "Elixir of Life" and "food for the afterworld" and was certainly heralded as having supernatural powers.
Of course, it is debatable whether or not this egyptian substance was actually monoatomic gold, but bear with me...
Since that point in history, it seems to have been a minastay of alchemists to try and achieve this form of "white powdered gold" that was certainly passed down through ancient Chaldean (ancient magicians of Babylon) or Cabbalistic (Jewish mystical teachings of the Cabbalah) traditions and one of the major goals of Alchemy was "The preparation of aurum potabile, liquid gold, a sovereign remedy, because gold being itself perfect could produce peffection in the human frame." -quoted from The History of Chemistry as quoted by Manly P. Hall in his The Secret Teachings of All Ages, p. CLV. Gold . That's right, according to a bearded man working by candle-light at some point in the past, monatomic gold is a panacea!