Routine maintenance discovers an estimated 4 tonnes of gold inside the Large Hadron Collider – Scientists left “perplexed”
Alison MacdonaldBullion.Directory precious metals news 1 April, 2015
By Alison Macdonald
Science Editor at Bullion.Directory
Maintenance teams working within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, uncovered a coating of what appeared to be yellow paint last week, on the outermost concrete skin of the 27-kilometer long structure.
It has since been confirmed that this yellow paint is in fact a thin covering of gold, platinum and rare-earth elements.
Dr Avril Blageur
Dr Blaguer – LHC Lead CERN
LHC project head Dr Avril Blageur announced to her team this morning that a “10-micron (0.01mm) hazing of gold, platinum, scandium and yttrium has been found around the outermost protective barrier” adding “we are perplexed as to how this hazing has occurred and are currently establishing a time frame for it’s deposit… by investigating past maintenance records for these structural elements”
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