I hope that doesn't make him more tempted. Thats a very useful power.

She can do it in bulk, I have to do it pretty much one atom at a time.

To be fair, real transmutation is something every science nerd would want to have recorded on record. Mostly to figure out how to do it themselves later.

:chuckles. I have a 5 gallon bucket full of those wheelweights. Been a while since I did any bullet casting I like your take on alchemy - need to have the source material close to what you want on the periodic table. Hydrogen to Gold would take a hell of a lot of energy to pull off - supernova level...

Why do I feel uneasy?

*Reads description.*

So that's Mink's name....hmmm....

With rare earth metals, and gold for circuitry easy to produce, along with being almost free, it would revolutionize the tech industry.

If he's smart he will not go for gold, there are minerals that are way more rare and expensive than gold.

0. Antimatter - about $62.5 trillion per gram. (theoretical for obvious reasons.)
1. Francium – approximately $1 billion per gram (theoretical, it only has a half life of 22 minutes)
2. Californium – $25 million per gram
3. Carbon – $65k per gram (read diamonds)
4. Plutonium – $4k per gram
5. Scandium – $270 per gram

Come to think of it, she could make antimatter, the "only" thing she has to do is to reverse the charge.

Carbon itself is pretty cheap... Its in pencil leads of all things. More carbon yields a harder lead. But you are referring to a specific configuration of Carbon, which can be replicated pretty cheap in labs, growing synthetic diamonds.

Heck, if i recall right, antimatter has the nasty property of being needy for a very special container of you're at the start of a very nasty energy output.

Not gonna lie. That ability right there. Would destroy and build so much if it was ever known

yeah this possibly can't go wrong...

Well, that *would* be an amazing ability, wouldn't it?

I wonder what the process is too. Is she basically causing nuclear fusion within a contained space? Becoming her own fusion reactor. I feel like the magical energy requirements for that should be huge, unless magic allows for some loophole to the process.

Well we know magic allows loopholes when she was fine with that one soldier she was using that soldiers metabolism instead of her own to fuel their flight. So using external sources of energy is fairly I guess standard for magical spells?

Therefore the requirement for raw materials nearby on the periodic table (probably actually nearby on the nuclide table, but they're closely related.) Excess energy could be dumped into endothermic fission of something common, probably oxygen to helium.

I think she could turn any matter in Antimatter, as far as I know antimatter is opposite charged of normal matter.
She could use hydrogen and turn the electron and proton into a positron and antiproton.
Of course then she better have a vacuum with a very strong magnetic field to store it.
(I'm not a scientist, sorry if this makes no sense. :) )

She probably could - there's more properties that have to shift than just charge, but you're right - there's no mass difference. Depends on whether she has to obey ALL of the conservation laws, though. Since mass conservation is implied, charge wouldn't be too bad with a whole atom, but baryonic and leptonic conservation would be tricky.

We're thinking way too logically for this. It's magic. How it happens mean nothing. She can do it because she can.
To decipher magic, science would have to be able to observe the unobservable.

Mercury is actually closest to gold on the periodic table, all you have to do is remove one proton from it, then again lead is only 2 spaces to the right and it's much more common than mercury (I actually looked it up, apparently thallium doesn't occur as a pure substance in nature and oxidizes really fast.) Gold's other table neighbor is platinum but that's even harder to find.

The one thing Solomon seems to want over everything else is more knowledge

Why do I feel like Mink, despite being as savvy as she is, just made a mistake.

I love a super nerd nerding out.

This guy is nobody's dummy.

Think of the good she could do transmuting expended nuclear material into harmless substances. Of course, it would probably leave her comatose every time.

18 KG of Plutonium.... Bright flash of light.

As far as I know 1.5 Kilogram is enough for a big boom.

Let's be honest here: the thought of actual transmutation turned his flesh to DIAMOND. I'm surprised "lil Max" didn't uppercut the table.

That would make for a fun side story. Laura transmuting lead into gold while Max recorded. He then kisses her in thanks, which leads to the scene in the Epilogue that I saw on Patreon (which will eventually be seen here).