Scientists in China have made a pioneering discovery that would intensely affect the face of the precious metals landscape — and offer bitcoin with an option to shine. Scientists Turn Copper into Substance that’s almost similar to Gold Consistent with SCMP, scientists team at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Liaoning have evolved a technique to show reasonably-priced, ample copper into a substance that is identical to gold, carrying out what alchemists have for loads of years believed could be a gateway to endless riches. To create the pseudo-gold, the scientists shot a payload of hot, electrically-charged argon gas at a goal made out of copper. The ionized gas particles dislodged copper atoms from the target, and such atoms fell onto a collecting tool in which they cooled off right into a pile of microscopic sand — every grain only some nanometers in length. The scientists then tested the copper particles properties with th...