alchemist
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Outside, it was a cold November evening, but inside the West End venue, Mulatu was bathed in the warm embrace of a crowd eager to get one last glimpse of this alchemist at work.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
The Nuton name plays on Isaac Newton, the alchemist, as well as the hunt for “a new ton” of copper, which had become elusive via deal or discovery, Burley said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025
Whoever can turn it invisible by bending light around it will change warfare just as dramatically as the Chinese alchemist 900 years ago who was looking for the elixir of life and discovered gunpowder.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
"We're essentially transforming materials into something else, perhaps approaching the dream of the alchemist!."
From Science Daily • Jan. 26, 2024
“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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