Cumulative General Science/Technology Quiz

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Whoah, thats one helluva guess. And oh, open floor, but not to you Ozbenno ( you just went ;) )
 
Ok, i take it...

Which test to prove that a diamond is a real one or a fake one (fake one being destroy by the test) was used during centuries and accidentely destroy 90% of the diamond submitted to the test? Chemistry proved later that real diamond were bound to be destroyed (and considered as fake)....
 
....waits for Mise to answer this question....
 
:hmm: are we talking metaphorical gold, or elemental gold? If metaphorical, then i'd imagine it was some babylonian or egyptian hydrological engineer... if elemental, well, I didn't think we had attained that level of subatomic manipulation yet.
 
Dammit, beaten by Abgar. It indeed was Glenn Seaborg who transmuted lead into gold in 1951.
 
Glenn Seaborg, IIRC

:goodjob: you are up :)
Dammit, beaten by Abgar. It indeed was Glenn Seaborg who transmuted lead into gold in 1951.

actually it was 1980 - in 1951 he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for research with transuranium chemistry...
 
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