alchemy
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"They created a theatre of 750 seats in the round, a democratic arena where the alchemy between actor and audience is at its most purest form and they've created something that still feels fresh today."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
"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
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
The other side he refused to hear were those who dismissed alchemy as a deception, a delusion, a fantasy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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“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
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
Equally important are good timing, dumb luck, strange alchemies.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2013
These documents are taken from Tomassetti's Bullarium, except the decree of John XXII. with regard to alchemies, which is taken from the Corpus Juris Canonici, Tome II.,
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
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