Question

What is the role of heat in the process of transforming silver into gold?

Answer 1

Silver cannot be turned into gold. The laws of physics prevent it and the economy of the world depends on it.

Answer 2

dear would ya like to eat raw potato.....noone would. It has to be treated with heat (by boiling or roasting)so as to change its chemical properties to get a desirable form. . Heat is required to agitate molecules of an element so that the molecules get excited and hence take part in a chemical reaction.

Answer 3

Sounds like alchemy to me - in which case the air is getting HOTTER all the time...

Answer 4

I understand the question but do not have a definitive answer. I think though, that I can offer a hypothesis. The copper is covered by a thin deposit of zinc which has a silver appearance. Upon heating, it is possible that there is some form of physical (or chemical) interaction between the zinc atoms and the copper atoms (just below the zinc coating) such that when light is reflected from it, it has a gold colour, i.e. the crystalline or metallic structure created produces this pecular quality.

Answer 5

Dear child, no amount of heat you can find in your lifetime or the next could transform that silver of yours into gold. You are talking of nuclear tranformations (read: nuclear reactions) here and even that is not feasible (nor profitable). So move on to yourt next (really scientific) question.

Answer 6

I think its just the color of the metal. Changing anything to gold is some ancient alchemy garbage.