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Is there a nuclear decay process that yields an isotope of Au? If so, could we say we've solved the old alchemical quest of deriving precious from nonprecious metals?

835 upvotes • r/askscience

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How did the Original Pakistan (today's Pakistan + Bangladesh) function as a single country?

220 upvotes • r/AskHistorians

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I was taught in grade school that in the American Revolutionary War, each army had a rear guard that would slaughter any soldier that tried to flee the battle. How does this make any sense?

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I was reading about the Intracluster Medium (ICM) on Wikipedia and I don't understand that something that contains only .01 particles per cubic centimeter can be 10-100 megakelvins in temperature.

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Why has Crimea always been so important?

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Were the other Martian probe landings as complicated and dangerous as Curiosity?

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Have we ever put a spacecraft in orbit around a Lagrange point before? Have we ever discovered a natural Lagrange sattelite?

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How is electricity converted to motion?

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How does [this](http://i.imgur.com/oxI6T.jpg) work?

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Have we devised a convincing mechanism for an ATP-couple enzymatic reaction? One that clearly depicts how the energy transfer from Pi cleavage transfers to other bond changes?

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Is there a nuclear decay process that yields an isotope of Au? If so, could we say we've solved the old alchemical quest of deriving precious from nonprecious metals?	835	askscience
How did the Original Pakistan (today's Pakistan + Bangladesh) function as a single country?	220	AskHistorians
I was taught in grade school that in the American Revolutionary War, each army had a rear guard that would slaughter any soldier that tried to flee the battle. How does this make any sense?	6	AskHistorians
I was reading about the Intracluster Medium (ICM) on Wikipedia and I don't understand that something that contains only .01 particles per cubic centimeter can be 10-100 megakelvins in temperature.	3	askscience
Why has Crimea always been so important?	3	AskHistorians
Were the other Martian probe landings as complicated and dangerous as Curiosity?	1	askscience
Have we ever put a spacecraft in orbit around a Lagrange point before? Have we ever discovered a natural Lagrange sattelite?	1	askscience
How is electricity converted to motion?	1	askscience
How does [this](http://i.imgur.com/oxI6T.jpg) work?	1	askscience
Have we devised a convincing mechanism for an ATP-couple enzymatic reaction? One that clearly depicts how the energy transfer from Pi cleavage transfers to other bond changes?	1	askscience