Ancient Practice: Trying to Turn Objects Into Gold

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Question

Ancient Practice: Trying to Turn Objects Into Gold

Answer

ALCHEMY

Word Meaning:

ALCHEMY — (uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.

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