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Myths humans believe in:
The transmutation of Lead into Gold using Alchemy
Transmutation is commonly misunderstood by Hollywood film makers to mean the creation of a
valuable substance, gold, from less valuable substances, dirt, bat’s wings, “common” metals, such as
lead and so forth. Actually the alchemists were saying that gold was nature’s perfect, immutable, end
product of construction, and they believed that they could find the “constituents” of gold in other,
more common, substances and build gold from them.
A great deal of work was done in furtherance of the above goal, and in the process, modern chemistry
and metallurgy were born from the attempt to discover the building blocks of nature. The nineteenth
century was, for chemistry, among other things, the great age of the discovery of the chemical
elements.
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Myths humans believe in:
The transmutation of Lead into Gold using Alchemy
Transmutation is commonly misunderstood by Hollywood film makers to mean the creation of a
valuable substance, gold, from less valuable substances, dirt, bat’s wings, “common” metals, such as
lead and so forth. Actually the alchemists were saying that gold was nature’s perfect, immutable, end
product of construction, and they believed that they could find the “constituents” of gold in other,
more common, substances and build gold from them.
A great deal of work was done in furtherance of the above goal, and in the process, modern chemistry
and metallurgy were born from the attempt to discover the building blocks of nature. The nineteenth
century was, for chemistry, among other things, the great age of the discovery of the chemical
elements.
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