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Seaborgium.

Seaborgium.

It's, it's called.

That's his name.

I'm terribly sorry to hear you have seaborgium.

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[laughs] Seaborgium.

Well, no one's ever been able to do that.

But there has been lead converted to gold and it was by a fellow called Glenn Seaborg, a physicist, and one of the recent elements discovered in the periodic table was named after him, Seaborgium, one of these things you make in a reactor.

Anyway, he was able to put lead into a nuclear reactor and after spending about 25 million dollars uh got a fraction of a gram of lead so you can convert lead into gold the philosophers stone the medieval alchemists were actually right but they were wrong so you can do it but you've got to have very deep pockets there's also gold in seawater um if you like to produce gold from seawater which the germans tried to do they had massive gold reparations after the first world war i think it was five billion French crowns of gold, the Germans had one great asset, and that was their chemists and their physicists, who'd won many Nobel Prizes.

And Fritz Haber, we're all very grateful for Fritz Haber because he developed a method of making fertilisers from air.