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词汇 transmuting
释义 transmuting
present participle oftransmute
transmute
verb[ I or T, usually+ adv/prep ]
 chemistry formal or specializeduk /trænzˈmjuːt/ us /trænsˈmjuːt/
to change something completely, especially into something different and better: 彻底改变(尤指变成更好的他物)
A few centuries ago alchemists thought they could transmute lead into gold.几个世纪以前炼金术士以为他们能把铅变成金子。
Plutonium transmutes into/to uranium when it is processed in a nuclear reactor.钚在核反应堆中经过处理就变成了铀。
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Examples of transmuting


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Even then skeptics peering into the mental laboratory from the outside regard it as something like the transmuting of metals; the claims exceed the results.
Parties institutionalized citizenship by organizing the electorate for the civic rituals of voting and by transmuting inchoate demands into law and policy.
Almost all alchemical treatments and operations were directed toward changing the properties of fusible bodies or transmuting them into each other.
His manner of transmuting his sources using them as "clues" and "tools," and his use of analogies without much warning about his method create additional difficulty.
Reprocessing offers the prospect of separating and transmuting the actinides, the long-lived radioactive components, to render them harmless by incineration.
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I am prepared to assert that it would not have been recognised as a transmuting act of generosity.
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The same point can be made about that other hoary old favourite, short-dated gilts, as a means of transmuting higher-taxed income into lower-taxed or usually non-taxed capital gains.
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The song was also pivotal in transmuting folk rock into the new musical forms of psychedelia and raga rock.
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In 1932, they bombarded lithium with high energy neutrons, electrons and protons and succeeded in transmuting it into helium and other chemical elements.
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The secret of transmuting one element into another, specifically base metals into gold or silver, was equally explored by both schools for obvious reasons.
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These alchemists were more concerned with medical elixirs than with transmuting lead into gold.
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The process of treatment proceeds through transmuting internalizations in which the patient gradually internalizes the selfobject functions provided by the therapist.
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Much of the musical material focuses on transmuting the timbre of the instrument, often on a single pitch.
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The goose, it is learned, is transmuting one naturally occurring isotope of oxygen into gold.
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Less frequently used capabilities include splitting atomic nuclei and manipulating subatomic particles (thereby transmuting chemical elements).
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