Can we re-create certain elements artificially through chemistry?
Actually you don’t do it with chemistry. You do it with physics. Chemistry involves chemical reactions, not atomic transformations, which are nuclear stuff. That’s why the alchemists got nowhere. They were barking up the wrong tree. Elements are defined by their nuclear structure. Chemistry doesn’t get close to that. It deals with stuff outside the nucleus, like electron bonds and orbitals. Chemical reactions are electron reactions, not nuclear ones like fusion and fission. Physics is about those. What you describe has been done many times. Only certain changes are possible, just as only certain chemical reactions are possible. How nuclei split and can be recombined or bits of them recombined in different configurations is controlled by the laws of physics, and they aren’t all known yet. Some elements have been made artificially …..but that doesn’t mean that ALL elements can be made artificially. To get a gold nucleus, with all the particles stuck together (bonded) in the right way,
