The supposed conversion of base metals into gold or silver in alchemy. 转变在炼金术中假想的从贱金属到金或银的转变
Astrology and alchemy are occult sciences. 占星学和炼丹术为神秘之学。
Such is the golden alchemy of consciousness. 这个就是意识的黄金炼金术。
alchemy
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the way two individuals relate to each other
<noun.linkdef> their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other a mysterious alchemy brought them together
a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times
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Alchemy \Al"che*my\, n. [OF. alkemie, arquemie, F. alchimie, Ar. al-k[=i]m[=i]a, fr. late Gr. ?, for ?, a mingling, infusion, ? juice, liquid, especially as extracted from plants, fr. ? to pour; for chemistry was originally the art of extracting the juices from plants for medicinal purposes. Cf. Sp. alquimia, It. alchimia. Gr. ? is prob. akin to L. fundere to pour, Goth. guitan, AS. ge['o]tan, to pour, and so to E. fuse. See {Fuse}, and cf. {Chemistry}.] 1. An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.
2. A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.]
Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. --Milton.
3. Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.
Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. --Shak.
What, for example, was the peculiar alchemy that sparked some of the most innovative and enduring rock music ever written?
Good treasury management, which produced interest income despite year-end debt of Pounds 262m, now smacks more of financial alchemy.
The end result may look like alchemy but Kevyn Aucoin gives us the nitty-gritty details.
Who will get the 28,000 acres of fertile Delta land when Big Daddy dies? It takes alchemy to make steamy Mississippi from a wet night in Birmingham. Only the cicadas are missing.