Conversion of one chemical element or an isotope into another chemical element.
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The difficulty of this transmutation lies fundamentally in the nature of representation.
2
The doctrine was formed by the unconscious transmutation of metaphors into dogmas.
3
But I have doubts about the possibility of a transmutation of metals.
4
It displays a power of imaginative transmutation hitherto undisclosed in MacDowell's writing.
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And this, we repeat, without any gross material transmutation or mixing together.