What is Alchemy?
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In a nutshell, alchemy was "chemistry" before the periodic table. It was believed that combining the four basic properties (earth, fire, air, and water) in certain ratios could produce iron, gold, booze, and even life itself. Alchemy was no longer practiced after LaVosier's studies and the publishing of the Periodic Table of Elements.
The anime Full Metal Alchemist has very little to do with classical alchemy.
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A revived belief system rooted in a primitive understanding of chemistry and medicine, given merit by the histories of fantasy fiction and practiced most successfully by tabletop gamers.
Further books on this subject can be found at your local bookstore in the NEW AGE section, somewhere between "The Sagittarian Sorcerer" and "You're a Teen Rune Casting Goddess".
"Oh yeah! I remember what Don Quixote's magic balsam did to him and poor Sancho Panza. That was pretty funny."
"You've got to roll a 15+ on that d20 to make the +20 HP potion and maybe with the experience points level up to a level 3 alchemist, that'll allow you to make +30 HP potions and you'll only have to roll a 12+ on the d20. If you roll under you'll destroy your potion source materials and suffer -2 HP for letting the reaction blow up in your face."
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The Hermetic science and art of causing change, both physically and spiritually. The term is also used to describe the spiritual practices of chemists from other ancient cultures, such as ancient Chinese "alchemists." In the old days, there was no division seen between spiritual and physical practices, but for the sake of modern obsession with duality, alchemy can be divided into two types.
Practical alchemy _is_ chemisty, studying and manipulating the properties of matter to get what you want out of the universe.
Spiritual alchemy is what is discussed when "turning base metals into gold" is described. It is a form of mysticism, spiritual self-improvement with analogies to chemical jargon. "Gold" is spiritual perfection, while the lesser "base" metals (such as lead) are impure states of the spirit, unenlightened and full of the problems of mortal life.
Knowledgable alchemists were never trying to make a potion for eternal life or a stone that would transform physical materials into gold.
I seek enlightenment through alchemy.
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Alchemy is a science preformed by
I created a Hydrogen Balloon with these ingredients and this array with Alchemy
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Use Alchemy to fix that radio
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the science of understanding the structure of matter, breaking it down and reconstructing it into something else.
1. he used alchemy to turn lead into gold!
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a "science" that was believed to turn lead into gold that was used before the creation of the scientific method in which if you don't know what that is fuckin look it up but thats not important the most common thing said about alchamists is that they were charlatans and crackpots but some of them were were famous scientists or scolars like isaac newton and robert boyle if you dont them yet again fuckin look it up now on with what i was saying there are 3 main goals to alchemy they are 1. The transmutation of metals into gold and silver 2. An elixir that will prolong life indefinitely 3. The transmutation of human life
yeah pretty much they wanted to make a philosephers stone so they could be youthful forever which i dont know why i mean when i thing youth i think being trapped in a happy flowery hell with maito gai and rock lee from naruto *gags*
alchemy is kewl and the reason i even did this was because my love for the fullmetal alchemist series and the llamas in my brain told me to
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Is also a group of people that specialize in taking a DVD and removing the main movie using software on a PC, sometimes with subtitles and dual audio. A process know as
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Black Snake Moan - 2007, NTSC Dvdrip - xvid - AC3+MP3 - English - Alchemy_RG
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