philosophers' stone
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You can hear traces of Darkside in the other’s respective solo projects, but their fusion operates like a philosophers’ stone.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021
Each is embellished with vibrant figures and verses, which set out the process for making the philosophers’ stone and the elixir of life.
From Nature ● Apr. 28, 2020
The job-hopping Nicolas in The House of the Spirits doubles for One Hundred Years' mad inventor, Jose Arcadio Buendia, who strives to manufacture the philosophers' stone and photograph God.
From Time Magazine Archive
For more than a century, electrical engineers have sought a kind of philosophers' stone: a cell that will turn chemical fuel directly into electricity.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a little late to search for the philosophers’ stone in 1669, yet it was in such a search that phosphorus was discovered.
From History of Phosphorus by Eduard Farber
Their tweeted strategy was Google as philosopher’s stone, turning carelessly written sentences into dot-com gold.
From Slate ● May 17, 2022
The unsuccessful glassblower and alchemist Hennig Brandt was trying to find the philosopher’s stone, a mythical substance that could turn base metals into gold.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 27, 2019
But for the denizens of Silicon Beach, aircraft represent the ultimate hack — a philosopher’s stone that makes rest out of work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2019
Go by “data,” and there might never have been a novel about a schoolboy and a philosopher’s stone.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2019
Those who practised it were convinced that the philosopher’s stone had been successfully produced in the past.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
