Researchers at Michigan State University have perhaps discovered the secret of alchemy. They proved that a bacteria called Cupriavidus metallidurans gobbles up a toxic liquid chemical called gold chloride and spits out 24k gold in metallic form a week later. According to Brown, it wouldn’t be profitable to mass produce gold this way – so this probably isn’t the world-changing discovery the word “alchemy†would suggest. But it’s still pretty cool, like the fact that you can buy gold from a vending machine. Bacteria Produces Pure Gold | Money Talks News
Uhh....this is not alchemy. Alchemy is the purported art of creating one element from another. This bacteria just creates gold from a compound of gold itself. Slow news day apparently at "Money Talks News". Either that or the journalist who wrote that story flunked Chemistry.
