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What does alchemy mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.
  2. (countable) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
  3. (computing) Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
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The Goddess also figures prominently in alchemy in its concern with primal matter, the primal matrix from which all else may be transmuted.
Doing qigong exercises, prana, or Taoist alchemy will cause your hands or other parts to grow hot.
Newton devoted long years of research to the ancient mysteries of alchemy and how base metals could be turned into gold.
Witness their enthusiasm for UFOs as opposed to scientific cosmology, for alchemy instead of chemistry, for urban legends instead of hard news.
Although it had led to the discovery of alcohol and the mineral acids, historians of chemistry view alchemy in general as fraudulent.
I turned the photograph and looked at it, as though it might have changed through some process of mischief or alchemy.

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