note: because important websites are frequently "here today but gone tomorrow", the following was archived from
http://www.InsideTheWeb.com...78302&MyNum=980671512&P=Yes&TL=979778962Â on January 28, 2001.
The alchemical transformation of gold to the high spin state, glass-like form starts by dissolution of the gold into an aqueous solution. Some say that by lowering the pH to 1-2 then raising to exactly 10.78, and repeating the cycle will lead to the monoatomic state with the addition of salts and their affinity with the gold to make a chloride facilitating the process.