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CERN's lead-to-gold conversion is the 'dream of medieval alchemists'

CERN announced that lead ions smashed together broke the atoms into more recognizable forms such as lead to gold.

The detector at CERN known as ALICE, or A Large Ion Collider Experiment, is designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities.
The detector at CERN known as ALICE, or A Large Ion Collider Experiment, is designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities. (AN/CERN)

GENEVA (AN) — The ALICE collaboration at the world's largest particle physics lab has now measured the transmutation of lead into gold.

ALICE, which stands for "A Large Ion Collider Experiment," is a detector dedicated to heavy-ion physics at the Large Hadron Collider. It studies the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities.

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