alchemy

"It begins with the transfer of gold from the mantle into a melt that eventually forms volcanoes. The alchemy starts long before the metal reaches the surface."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

All of which should add up to a special alchemy at the Bowl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Even if you never bore witness to that outrageous performance, its elemental alchemy vibrates in the band’s most popular songs, each of them calling to us with purpose.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

The resource curse got its name for a reason, the strange alchemy by which having lots of oil keeps a country poor and oppressed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

All the matter in it, all the matter you see around you, has been through one or two previous cycles of stellar alchemy.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“Fire of Love” excavates their unique story, and the jaw-dropping footage the Kraffts left behind, in a film exploding with awe for the mysterious alchemies of love and obsession.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

It’s also a profane hymn to the specific alchemies of fire and metal, to the dark allure of forces that can destroy us no matter how hard we try to bend them to our will.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

“There are no hidden meanings or complicated alchemies that people are hiding from us.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020

Chaat is India’s seemingly limitless genre of snacks, alchemies of sour-sweet, tart and smoky, cooling and incendiary, creamy and crackling.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2016

It is the spirit of the Battalion, something compounded by the subtle alchemies of the spiritual world out of the individual souls of officers and privates alike.

From The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 by Arthur, John W.