Search for isotopic anomalies in alchemical silver coins

Search for isotopic anomalies in alchemical silver coins from the Germanischen National Museum in Nuremberg Jean-Paul Biberian Hervé Bottollier-Curtet, Oliver Köberl, R. Combarieu, CRMC-N Centre de Recherche de la Matière Condensée et des Nanosciences Asti 2006 1

OBJECTIVE Since Low Energy Nuclear Reactions occur, may be alchemistry is real. Two options: 1 - Make gold and be rich 2 - Demonstrate that others have done it Asti 2006 2

Option 1 Several people claim they have done it, but so far we could not do it ourselves. We tried different techniques, but nothing really worked. Asti 2006 3

Option 2 Analyse transmuted metals, and do isotopic analysis in order to find anomalies Asti 2006 4

Gold Isotopes Gold has only one stable isotope Au-197 No possibility of distinguishing: natural from alchemical gold Asti 2006 5

Silver isotopes Natural silver has two stable isotopes: Ag-107 : 51. 839 % Ag-109 : 48. 161 % Asti 2006 6

Museums having silver alchemical coins Louvre Museum, Paris Germanischen National Museum, Nuremberg Asti 2006 7

Coins Asti 2006 8

Krohnemann Asti 2006 9

Krohnemann Asti 2006 10

Unbekannt Asti 2006 11

Rosenkreuser Asti 2006 12

Luna Asti 2006 13

Solis Asti 2006 14

Chemical composition in atom% Analysis by EDAX precision +/- 1% Asti 2006 15

TOF-SIMS All coins have natural silver isotopic distribution within the statistical precision of 1% Asti 2006 16

Thank you, we’ll do better next time Asti 2006 17