Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Alchemy

> A form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practised in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.

> Any magical power of process of transmuting a common substance, usually of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.

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