transmutation

Example Sentences

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It's difficult for researchers to make these kinds of observations; in fact, they are not able to directly observe acts of transmutation.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2024

Indeed, when Soddy realized what was going on, he shouted to his colleague: "Rutherford, this is transmutation!"

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2023

To him the sun was less a stable object than a river, in its perpetual transmutation, and he said he never saw the same eclipse twice.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2022

It’s when those words are set to music and dramatized by a singer of skill and sympathy that the magical transmutation occurs.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022

The transmutation of the elements was pursued in medieval laboratories in a quest called alchemy.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan