Gold nanoparticles create purple smoke

Researchers at the University of Bristol have confirmed that spherical gold nanoparticles are responsible for the purple smoke that appears when fulminating gold is detonated. With this discovery, the scientists have solved a 400-year-old alchemy puzzle. In a recent preprint,...

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