What's the difference between alchemy and transmutation?

Alchemy


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet.
  • (n.) Miraculous power of transmuting something common into something precious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The surface channelling effect has been observed in GaAs (110) with REELS, which may provide a basis for localizing surface foreign atoms with ALCHEMI.
  • (2) Coûteaux, who eventually fell out with both Le Pen and Philippot, described their meeting as pure alchemy.
  • (3) A drug of longevity, prior to alchemy, was peach, from which the god of longevity has emerged.
  • (4) But as many coaches have learned before, managing that alchemy within MLS and its rolling state of exception, involves an almost parodic version of standard managerial practices.
  • (5) They know about alchemy in Aswan, for it is a place that has always shifted from one thing into another.
  • (6) Johnson, holding the press conference in the Foreign Office, said: “We can spend an awfully long time going over lots of stuff that I’ve written over the last 30 years … All of which, in my view, have been taken out of context, through what alchemy I do not know – somehow misconstrued that it would really take me too long to engage in a full global itinerary of apology to all concerned.
  • (7) The alchemy is, as we have seen, extraordinarily powerful.
  • (8) Greek alchemy, the earliest record of which dated about 200 A.D., presents a similar version, was originally Chinese and was introduced by the Arabs who brought herbal drugs of longevity to Alexandria.
  • (9) With gorgeously savoury ribs, a rib-sticking Italian soup, and a creamy Keralan fish curry on the menu, it was particularly tough to pick a favourite, but for sheer alchemy, James Connery's magically melting ox cheek ragu took some beating.
  • (10) In China the development of alchemy has been ruled by two theories: first, as like makes like, a perennial plant can make human life perennial: likewise, certain substances can prolong human life as they are rich in Life-force or Soul-content.
  • (11) This glorious reverse alchemy was at play outside Buckingham Palace today, as Gordon Brown made his historic – and historically uneventful – journey to see Her Majesty.
  • (12) Jon Moulton, founder, Alchemy Partners "An iceberg is definitely awaiting a victim - one day.
  • (13) Koolhaas describes the elevator as “the product of technological alchemy: a fusion of several boring existing innovations which had a dramatic impact on the shape of our cities and the shape of our bodies alike”.
  • (14) "Those plans are being worked through right now – the alchemy of that will be very exciting."
  • (15) There is another theory that Alchemy arose in China.
  • (16) The theory generally accepted maintains that Alchemy arose at Alexandria as a child of Greek culture.
  • (17) Few have pulled off this alchemy quite as effectively as Angelina Jolie and William Hague in their joint campaign for international action against mass rape in conflicts.
  • (18) And we’ve got more weapons of our own: Solidarity, Wit, the remarkable alchemy that is Nonviolence.
  • (19) The Radio 1 and BBC Asian Network DJ Nihal has curated the event as part of the centre's Alchemy festival , which celebrates art from the Indian subcontinent.
  • (20) The Europeans must do more to share their military capabilities – co-operating more effectively rather than cutting across the board or, as he put it, indulging "in some reductionist alchemy which leaves everyone doing less of the same".

Transmutation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals.
  • (n.) The change or reduction of one figure or body into another of the same area or solidity, but of a different form, as of a triangle into a square.
  • (n.) The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The decrease was concurrent with transmutation of the tyrosine hydroxylase-like immunopositive (THLI) cells into mature neurons that had abundant elongated neurites with varicosities and synapses on neuronal elements in the host caudate.
  • (2) The debate is of both a dogmatic and practical nature, dogmatic in that it has bearing on the question of cellular specificity, and practical in that histological transmutation has repercussions on the macroscopic aspect of the tumor, its clinical evolution and even its behaviour vis-a-vis radiation therapy.
  • (3) The stimulation was assumed to depend on the radiation and transmutation defects in DNA due to H3 disintegration, and to occur when the stream of labelled cells reached the G1r phase.
  • (4) The abundant data indicate that the shamanistic priest, who was highly placed in the stratified society, guided the souls of the living and dead, provided for the transmutation of souls into other bodies and the personification of plants as possessed by human spirits, as well as performing other shamanistic activities.
  • (5) These negative results revealed that malignant cells injected 24 hours previously in a mouse (in vivo conditions) differ from a malignant cell suspension in a tube (in vitro conditions) where the lethal effect of 64Cu transmutation was clearly evidenced.
  • (6) Weaving a historical narrative from slavery through the present, the film and its contributors trace in stark relief, the various transmutations that the oppression of the black body in America has taken, and the ways that criminal justice has been recruited to that end.
  • (7) The dose to the stem cell nucleus, then, is derived from the number and energy of decays originating in the nuclear mass of 270 X 10(-12) g. The transmutation effect from isotopic decay in DNA is considered in order to arrive at dose equivalents.
  • (8) In that system pathogenic primacy is given to failures in parental empathy, leading to the technical requirement of providing empathic responses which build a cohesive self through transmuting internalizations.
  • (9) The transmutation mainly contributes (about 80%) to cell inactivation.
  • (10) The mutant is 7 times more sensitive than the wild type to transmutation of both isotopes.
  • (11) Now that central London has been transmuted into a hollowed-out non-dom tax shelter and money laundering facility, Centre Point is now fulfilling its destiny.
  • (12) Among the various methods for studying the relative effects of transmutation and radiation of incorporated nuclides, simulation of beta radiation by external gamma exposure is of practical importance.
  • (13) It is shown that the treatment (a) injure specifically via 64Cu transmutation the DNA of the malignant cells and further perform (with thioproline or spermine) a "reverse transformation" on the damage DNA; (b) restore a "noncancer functioning" in the host cells which had become "cancer cells"; this restoration was performed using, at physiological concentrations, natural compounds already present in all cell types such as metal ions, amino acids, vitamin D2, thyroxine and chelating substances.
  • (14) This correlation suggests that nuclear recoil, electronic excitation, and chemical transmutation are probably of minor importance to the observed biological toxicity with either isotope.
  • (15) Lethal efficiency of 32P leads to 32P transmutation in DNA amounted to 0.046.
  • (16) The UV degradation product, which was isolated and identified, showed that irradiation of nimodipine causes oxidation of the dihydropyridine ring and transmutation of the nitro group in the nitrobenzene moiety.
  • (17) Many of the stories have transmuted into songs and visual artwork, such as the controversial painting Mistake Creek Massacre (depicting the murder of eight Indigenous men, women and children in 1915), by the Kimberley artist Queenie McKenzie.
  • (18) Radioactive decay in a labelled molecule leads to specific chemical and biological consequences which are due to local transmutation effects such as recoil, electronic excitation, build-up of charge states and change of chemical identity, as well as to internal radiolytic effects.
  • (19) He accomplished that with the Weavers, the group he formed in 1950, and who would establish a template for the folk revival of that decade and its transmutation in the early 1960s.
  • (20) The word Bobbitt has transmuted itself into a verb.