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No attempt will be made here to discuss Boyle's interest in the transmutation of metals.
He was a student at Edinburgh, where he met a chemist famous for his transmutation experiments.
The fat apples that appear from these flowers seemed to me to have an element of transmutation about them.

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transmutation | American Dictionary

transmutation
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌtræns·mjuˈteɪ·ʃən, ˌtrænz-/
physics, chemistry
the process of changing one element to another, either naturally or by nuclear reaction

Examples of transmutation

transmutation
It deals with mechanisms of transmutation and misrepresentation of the real motivations of agents.
For example, misrepresentation and transmutation put stress on the feasibility of ideals of deliberative democracy.
The work is a metaphor which portrays subtle transformations (or transmutations) in human existence precipitated by pervasive new technology.
This is not a transmutation (section 3.1), because the weight of p may also change.
By comparison, interest in artificial radioactivity and transmutation, to the extent that it remained in the purely phenomenological realm, seems to have faded.
The trouble, of course, is that the scientific evidence also speaks in favor of transmutation and, correspondingly, of human descent from animals.
Thus, while apparently rejecting inter-species transmutation, he advocated "parallel evolution" and rejected essentialist doctrines of special creation.
The knowledge transformers, like the knowledge generation transmutations, change the logical content of the input knowledge through the inference process of deduction, induction, or analogy.
Sometimes the clue to new insight was given by observing transformations and transmutations in nature known to occur spontaneously.
There are no plausible theories that explain exactly how misrepresentation and transmutation work.
Separation anxiety: metaphoric transmutations from a paradoxical biological instrument, or: what is a cactus doing in our concert hall?
The subject and the composition, the original inspiration and its transmutation on paper-these are no longer the domain of the craftsman.
The music, fittingly, undergoes a transmutation, a sea change.
This is an impor tant result demonstrating the transmutation of fission by product in to a safe isotope.
Empires often mean highly heterogeneous peoples and cultures coming into close and prolonged contact and the result is inevitably some transmutation of both.
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