The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in quantities that would make Auric Goldfinger blush.

  • Lumisal@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s a better conductor than copper. Doesn’t oxidize like copper. Could be very useful if I’m the far future it could replace copper.

    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      It’s actually a worse conductor than copper. It’s just used for contacts because it’s nearly as good of a conductor and it doesn’t oxidize. If you want a better conductor than copper then you want silver which to my knowledge is the best conductor out of all the base elements.