We know now that you can’t turn “base metals” into gold through chemical processes, but if you could, gold would no longer be scarce and therefore no more valuable than the base metals.
We know now that you can’t turn “base metals” into gold through chemical processes, but if you could, gold would no longer be scarce and therefore no more valuable than the base metals.
Lol, I don’t think the alchemists were planning on sharing the technique if they found it.
I don’t think any technology can be successfuly kept secret in the long term