alchemy
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alkemia
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Substantiivi
alchemy englanniksi
The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.
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{{quote-journal|en|date=2014-06-21|volume=411|issue=8892|magazine=The Economist
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The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
(RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar)
1640, (w), ''Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc.'', in ''The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert'', London: Pickering, 1841, p. 143,https://archive.org/details/remainsofthats00her
- No alchymy to saving.
(RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)
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{{quote-text|en|year=2016|author=Boris Johnson
Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.