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
The operation, conducted by CIA alchemists from 1954 until 1963, was part of a quarter-century hunt for a psychogenic philosophers' stone.
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
Brandt believed that, if he could collect enough of this substance, he might be able to create the philosopher’s stone.
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
Stones played a key role in alchemy: the philosopher’s stone, the Chintamani.
From Slate ● May 29, 2018
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
