Meaning Of The Word Alchemy

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What's The Definition Of Alchemy?

alchemy
uncountable noun: Alchemy is the power to change or create things in a way which seems mysterious and magical.
uncountable noun: Alchemy was a form of chemistry studied in the Middle Ages, which was concerned with trying to discover ways to change ordinary metals into gold.

alchemy in American English
an early form of chemistry, with philosophic and magical associations, studied in the Middle Ages: its chief aims were to change base metals into gold and to discover the elixir of perpetual youth
noun: a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life

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