Imagine the riches you would have if you discovered a way to turn lead, or dirt, or iron into pure gold. Well, people have been trying to figure out how to do this for eons. We have records of people trying to come up with formulas to turn regular old stuff into gold dating back to ancient Egypt, China and India.
In fact, a whole pseudoscience grew up around efforts to change common substances into gold known as alchemy. Well, where man has failed, Mother Nature has prevailed.
