Gold is one of the most highly sought after materials on the planet, so inventing a way to turn a much more abundant material, like copper, into the precious metal would be a huge accomplishment. Scientists from China haven’t reached that incredible milestone, but they have managed to make copper behave a lot like gold under specific conditions.
In a new research paper, which was published in Science Advances, the team of Chinese researchers explain how they used a blast of charged argon gas against copper atoms that, when cooled, formed tiny grains that behave very similar to gold under extreme stresses.
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